Mrs. Bob Fitzsimmons, wife of the noted prizefighter, and former prima donna, who twice attempted to take her life seven months ago, will speak Wednesday evening, July 26, at the Methodist church on "The Winning Right." The story of Mrs. Fitzsimmons conversion is unusual. "Bob didn't love me—I was in the county hospital—I had no friends—the world was through with me. I said, 'I shall die.' These were the dramatic circumstances that preceded her conversion. She attempted first time, when she jumped from a window, her skirt caught on some nails. The second time an attendant caught her just as she was leaning over to plunge and dragged her back into the room. From that time her life changed, she says. Before her marriage to the prize fighter in Paris, she was an opera singer, and afterward appeared in the United States under her own name, the Countess Temo Zelien. She went suicide. The trip to Los Angeles after a tiff with Bob eight months ago in Newark, N.J. She intended to go on the Pantages vaudeville circuit but became hoarse. A physician told her she had tuberculosis. She went to a hospital. When her money was gone she was sent to the county hospital, and when she discovered where she was, believing her voice gone and her life wrecked, she decided to end her life. Following her conversion she established a home for wayward girls in Los Angeles. Everything is now made smooth in her life, she says; she and Bob have been reconciled.  and she receives affectionate letters from him.
Mrs. Fitzsimmons was the prize fighter's fourth wife, and his last.
She has been separated from her husband since their misunderstanding in Newark. 