At the age of 21, he legally changed his name to John Ruckman Fell II.
In 1932 he married a former Ziegfield Follies Showgirl. The next year they went on a tour of the East Indies. Shortly after arriving at their hotel in Java, he was found dead of a knife wound to the chest. His wife, who was in the room at the time, claimed it was suicide. However she neglected to report the death to the police for 36 hours. The family always suspected that he was murdered.
In 1932 he married a former Ziegfield Follies Showgirl. The next year they went on a tour of the East Indies. Shortly after arriving at their hotel in Java, he was found dead of a knife wound to the chest. His wife, who was in the room at the time, claimed it was suicide. However she neglected to report the death to the police for 36 hours. The family always suspected that he was murdered.
At the age of 21, he legally changed his name to John Ruckman Fell II.
In 1932 he married a former Ziegfield Follies Showgirl. The next year they went on a tour of the East Indies. Shortly after arriving at their hotel in Java, he was found dead of a knife wound to the chest. His wife, who was in the room at the time, claimed it was suicide. However she neglected to report the death to the police for 36 hours. The family always suspected that he was murdered.
In 1932 he married a former Ziegfield Follies Showgirl. The next year they went on a tour of the East Indies. Shortly after arriving at their hotel in Java, he was found dead of a knife wound to the chest. His wife, who was in the room at the time, claimed it was suicide. However she neglected to report the death to the police for 36 hours. The family always suspected that he was murdered.
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