Frances Raymond

Frances Raymond ( — June 23, 1901

Early years Raymond was the daughter of Frederick Lapzieu ) of Brooklyn. She and her two sisters attended Brooklyn schools. She acted with the Frohman road companies and had been performing in The Girl I Left Behind Me in Memphis when she and the management parted ways. Management of Charles Frohman's company said that she had been incompetent, while she said that she angered a company official by resisting his advances. She committed suicide by inhaling gas in her New York City apartment after she had closed off the keyhole and the space under the door and removed three of the chandelier's four gas burners.