 Tellegen soon grew despondent.On October 29, 1934, while a guest of Edna Cudahy, the widow of meat packing heir Jack Cudahy, at the Cudahy Mansion at 1844 North Vine Street in Hollywood (now the site of the Vine-Franklin underpass of the Hollywood Freeway), Tellegen locked himself in the bathroom, then shaved and powdered his face.While standing in front of a full-length mirror, he stabbed himself in the heart seven times with a pair of sewing scissors.