The evening world. Newspaper, November 12, 1903, Page 3

f ” - REAL DRAMA IN LIFE OF ACTRESS Isobel Courtney, Who Stabs) - Herself and Fights Her Res- cuers, Is Said to Have Been on Her Honeymoon. SHE INDIGNANTLY DENIES . MARRIAGE TO W. W. HUNT. Ts Now a Prisoner Patient at Bellevue Hospital, After At- tempting Suicide in Her Room at the Lincoln Hotel. Suffering from inflicted stab wounds {sobel Courtney, an actress, i6 @ prisoner patient at Bellevue Hospital. She tried to kill herself in her room at, the Hotel Lincoln, Broadway and Fifty- second street. “Just say I was tired of life, despon- dent,” was her response when asied to- day to explain her attempted sulcide. But she flared up and grew indignant when asked if her reported marriage ¢wo days ago to W. W. Hunt, of the ‘H. B. Claflin Company, had anything to do with her act. “You have no right to drag his name into this. He had nothing to do with it. £ just wanted to shuffle off, and it’s nobody's business why.” Mr. Hunt left the employ of the Claf- lin Company two years ago. He was a galesman in the dress goods departmen A near friend of his stated this mornin that Miss Courney was a Canadian, and @s Hunt hailed from the same country, they were friends. Mr. Hunt himself fs responsible for the use of his name, according to Po- Meeman Lynch, who was called in by the hotel people. Mr. Hunt and a friend had taken Miss Courtney to dinner at Relsenweber's and escorted her back to the Lincoln. They were chatting to @ether in the lobby after leaving her in her room when her screams rang through the hotel. Mr. Hunt said he was nothing more than a friend of Miss Courtney. Miss Courtrey's wounds are slight, but @he made a tremendous sensation In the Broadway hotel by her manner of attempting suicide. Her strikk fig- ure and handsome dinfer gowns creat- ed a ripple of interest among the loungers in the hotel lobby as sie came in from dinner with Mr. Hunt and his friend. The gentlemen had just stepped out of the elevator after leay- ing her, at her room when the hotel folk were stitred by a woman's scredins. » Béllboys and ‘clerks went: scurrying thrdugh the corridors and word qultkly reached the office that Migs Courmey “had tried to kill herself. * Polfceman ‘Lynch ran in from Broadway, When he reached the actress's room he found ‘her standing withone arm resting on fhe back of a chair. In ¢he other sne ‘waved a jewolled Oriental dagger, Her long black hair fell in disorder about cher shoulders, and where her dinner gown was unbuttoned the bloodstains showed how she had tried to kill her- “Stand Back.” ‘The woman's eyes blazed with pas- sion, and the hotel attendants fell back before the angry sweep of her weapon “Stand Yack! Don't dare touch me} she cried, and the colored bellboys stood transfixed with horror. At sight of the policeman Miss Courtney tried once more to plunge the dagger into her breast, but Lynch was too quick and forwand and stayed her hand, t then that Mr. Hunt entered her room and spoke to her. When the ‘actress saw him she wopt hysterically, but did not speak to him, Dr. Wet= more, of Roosevelt Hospital, found her wounds were slight and she was taken fo Bellevue and made a prisoner, ‘At the hospital Misa Courtney gave the name of W. W. Hunt as her nearest friend, She told the doctors she had tried three times to kill herself and was sorry they had not let her finish the Job this ume, sone said her name was Bes- sie Campau and that her parents were French Canadians, Under the name of Imobel Courtney she has sung in the chorus with the Bostonians and “A WORLD WANTS -Prove Themselves. Paid Help Wants in | : ‘ THR: WORLD: THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 19, 1903. MRS. FLORENCE E. LILLIENTHAL, WHO AGNES CARNEY, WHO HAS TRIED: SUICIDE TWICE IN SIX MONTHS. 97e5 -Corney" INTO THE RIVE Mysterious Unknown, Stylishly * Dressed but Penniless, Who Tried to Sleep on a Cinder Pile, Was Drowned. — Two would-be sulcides jumped into the river from ferryboats to-day: One succeeded and the other was fished out. An unidentified and stylishly dressed man jumped from the ferryboat Wil- Namsbusg. He was drowned. George L. Dunn, forty years.old, living with his wife in Scotch Plains, N. J.. and for elghteen years a clerk in the in- surance offices of Charles E. and Will- jam: F. Peek; No. 58 Willlam street. Manhattan, attempted suicide by jump- ing from the ferryboat Mauch Chunk just after it left the South Ferry silp. He was glad to be rescued in a passing rowboat by Daniel Quigley. { At the Battery Policeman Murray; placed him under arrest. He was unablo to make a coherent statement, it being evident that his mind was affected. . Mind Evidently Affected. At the office where Durin worked a member of the firm said: “We cannot understand why Dunn should have committed such a rash act,! His work was‘all right and he did not handle the cash at all. We understand| that he has been ill of late and perhaps that affected his mind.” The man, who leaped Into East River and who is briefly described as of! middle age and well dressed, was found about 7 o'clock last night in a, nest he had made in a cinder pile In the Lehigh Valley frelgnt yards near the foot of East Forty-second streot. He was preparing to sleep there when the watchman routed him out, He begged the watchman to let him sleep there, but the watchman would not do so. The man sald he was without money and had no place to sleep. Gave Man Five Cent “Weil, here's a nickel,” said the watchman. “You can ride all night on a ferry-boat or in an elevated train.” The stranger took the nickel and walked out of the yard and into the slip of the ferry which connects Forty- second street with Broadway, Williams- burg. In a few minutes the ferry-boat TWO MEN LEAP | ; Deen a mechanic in the service of the CIRL DEAD I “SUICIDE ROW” “Pretty Julia” Five Years Ago Was Famous in the Tender- loin, and a Millionaire Became Infatuated With Her. The police were notified early to-day that an unknown woman had dled in ber room in “Suicide Row,” at No, 429 Chrystte street. They found there an emaciated body stretched on the floor of a squalid room, The last rem- blance of neauty had faded from the face and form, but’ through the change which dissipation had wrought were recognizel the features of Julia Engel, once the “Queen of the Tenderloin. Julia Engel's respectable parents lwe at No, 4% East Fifth street and there her childhood and her earlier years were spent, Wer father has for years Central Railroad of New Jersey and has lived an honest life. ‘The old mother did all in her power but @he could not hold her wayward girl, Twelve years ago Julia drifted away from the modest home because she could not have the luxuries for which she yearned. A millionaire whose name is well known became infatuated with her. She lived in a fashtonable apart- ment for several years, but as in all other such romances the man tired of her and she was left alone, A few weeks ago she went to live in “Suicide Row.” Her rool a joining her lived Mary Conroy, and as he etarted to leaye the house early to- day she looked through the open door and saw Julla Engel stretched on the joor. She was partly dre: , and had evidently fallen as st2 was ‘preparing for bed. When she was recognized. word was sent t® her mother, and the old German woman hurried to the house. Sobbing convulsively, she threw herself on the floor eside her child. MILLIONAIRE SUD BY SERVANT GIRL Harry Hollins came into the slip and he pald threa cents for his fare and board- ed the boat. Near the other side he threw his hat to\the deck, climbed to ¢he top of the railing and dived into the river. this morning’s World. 1,203 46 Paid Help Wants in the 13 other New York papers combined. ‘AGENTS .... ... 18) KITCHENWORK. 11 APPRENTICES .. 2) LAUNDRY 6 WANTS 6 7| LADIES’ TAIL'RS 15 8) MEN ..... +10 BOOKBINDERS . 11| MILLINERS BOOKKEEPERS.. 6) NECKWEAR * BOYS ...... +++)1283| NURSES: BRASS WORK'RS 3} OPERATOR: BUSHELMEN ... 13) PAINTERS . BUTCHERS . 88) PAPERHANGERS 4 CANV! RS 6) PHOTOSRAPHE'S 3 CARPE: 7| PIANO HANDS.. 6 CASHIBHS ...... 5) PLUMBERS .. ., 12 ERMAIDS 10| POCKETBOOK LLECTORS .. 5 MAKERS 2 The boat was stopped and Capt, Decker threw a -lfe-preserver to the man, who hed come to the surface. The preserver struck the water at his side, but the man pushed it ‘away and held his hands over his head as he sank in the current, Clothing Was Stylish. The boat was backed, but nothing was found of the sulolde, The nat, which was of recent purchase and ex- cellent quality, had been bought at No. 067 Broadway, Manhattan, Passengers on the boat said that the man’s clothing was of the latest styl that it was of fine quailty and indicate that he had considerable means. parently he was a man of education and refinement, but he looked worried and the passengers noted that he was in a gloomy mood. . ne 25 GAMBLERS DISCHARGED. Not Sufficient Evidence to Them for Paishment. CCMPOSITORS . PORTERS ++ 10] mwenty-three men, who were chargod cooxs PRESSHRS .. .. 2} with gambling in the*Hollendale Club, CUTTERS ROOFERS .... .. 2/at No. 585 Seventh avenue, which was DENTISTS |. SALESLADIES .. 14] raided by Livut.-Sergt. Hayes and Do- DISHWASHERS. . 18 fsoan Ure tectives Kahn, Obrion and Dribben last ING CL'KS night, were reed to-da. yy Magis~ DEESSMAKERS.. $01 SHOEMAKERS f| trate! Ommen, in Jefferson Market Po- DRIV! ste 98 ice Court. DRuG crernKs., 6|STNOGRAPHRS 3] “I know this club ts a gambling room ELECTRICIANS: 3|TAHORS .. ..., a7|/—there's no doubt about it", sald, th + 3) onsen Magistrate; ‘but the ofticors have been ELEVATOR eal unfortunate in not being able to, catch Riniumae 3S KS. 2}youinithe very act. ‘This club has to be UPHOLSTERERS, 9 USEFUL MEN |, VARNISHERS WAIST HAND! WAITERS ,. BMP. AGENCIpS .1 WATCHMAKERS,’ 9 MISCEL' NEOUS. 337 closed. The police say the men were shootli craps on a billiard table when the raid- ers broke into the place. ——— ‘Two Explanations for speed, (From the Boston Transcript.) —Sweete—See Marston hurrying home with all his So-eager to see dis 5 gai he aM lov tance Newberry D. Lawton, Who Sail- ed on the Reliance, Accused of Forcibly Ejecting Her from New Rochelle Villa. Newberry D. Lawton, millfonaire yachtsman, who sailed on the cup de- fender Rellance with C. Oliver Iselin, and a prominent resldent of New Ro- chelle, {8 defendant in a suit for $1,500 damages brought in the Westchester County Court against him by Anna Cor- nell, a servant girl, who accuses him of having thrown her out of his house when she called for, wages she clatms were due, Mr. Lawton, through his law- yer, Judge Hall, denies the charge. He declares that she entered the house with- out permission and he stmply ejected her without treating her roughly. Mr. Lawton occuples a fine villa near the residence of Banker Adrian Iselin on Dover Ports Neck on the Sound, Miss Cornell, through former Corpora- tion Counsel Michael J. Tierney, of New Rochelle, changes “that on Oct, 7 ast the defendant vidlently assaulted, beat Ill treated and injured the plaintift with. out cause by violently laying his hands upon her and with great force grabbed hold of her and threw her with violence through the doorway of his kitchen to and upon the stone steps and yard, thereby briilving apd injuring the plaintiff, cauging her pain and suffering and causing her to ‘become {ll and lame.” According to Misa Cornell, she was en- gaged as a servant by Mr, Lawton by the month, and‘after work: enty~ five days. was: discharged. on. the ground that he had no work for her, giving her wages only for the time she had worked. She demanded full month’ and veral days a ward went back to the Lawton residence and asked for the $5 due her, She say: ieitchen to walt for Mr. cane Was set down for trial to~ RNS BA ee TWOGIRL CHUMS SWALLOW POISON Agnes Carney and Mary Mc- Grath Are Side by Side and Near Death in Long Island College Hospital. MISS CARNEY’S SECOND _ EFFORT IN SIX MONTHS. Young Women Had Often Talked About Self-Inflicted Death,: but There Is No Evidence of, Suicide Pact. For the second time in six months Agnes Carney, aged fifteen, of No. 336 Degraw street, Brooklyn, has tried to end her Ilfe, She Is in Long Istand Col- lege Hospital to-day and on a cot close to her lies her chum, Mary McGrath, aged sixteen, of No, 201 Sackett street, who attempted suicide a week ago with carbolte acid, The heart of the Carney child 1s weak and the physicians fear that she will not recover. Undoubtedly the first attempt at sul- clde of Agnes Carney had an effect upon the mind of Mary McGrath. While there is no evidence of a sulcide pact between the girls It is known that they often talked about self-inflicted death. Eaoh appears to be of morbid tempera- ment, although they were bright in their studies when at school and both were regular church attendants, + Why They Sought Death, The McGrath girl tried to kill herself because her parents objected to the at- tentions paid to her by a young man of the nelghborhood. The Carney girl tried to kill herself because she thought that she was not being treated right at home. “They are additions to the rapidly growing number of New York schoolgirl would-be suicides whose ex- treme sensitiveness was not understood by those having control of them. ‘The father of the Carney girl Is a printer, earning good wages. There are seven children in the family, but four of them have left home. Accord- ing to the other children, Agnes got into the habit of visiting her brothers i HAS BEGUN SUIT FOR DIVORCE, Wes: Flerence Lilienthal Suit for absolute divorce has been filed by Mrs. Florence El!wanger Lilienthal against her husband, Capt. Albert H. Lilienthal, of the United States Army, son of the late Christian Lilllenthal, of Westchester County, who amassed a fortune of several millions of dollars, leaving the major portion of it to his soldier son. Behind the divorce there is much mys- tery, Capt. Lélllenthal ts now in the Philippines, and his wife and their young son are living in Charlestown, W. Va., n the most modest way. Mrs. Lillienthal is the daughter of a wealthy Rochester merchant. Her mar- riage to tne captain took place in 1898, and shortly afterward he was called away with his regiment. The separation York and through influence succeeded in getting a Government position Washington. Mrs, Lilienthal had not been In West Virginia more than a few months fore she learned that Capt. Lillienthal was back from the Philippin Charlestown she hurried b York and had Capt. Lilienthal ¢al before C1 on the charge of non-support. allowance to his wife and ohild. allegations were made MARRIED TEACHER Mrs. Vandewater to Make a Test Case of the Board's Or- dinance Declaring Vacant the Place of Woman Who Weds. By holding up the salary of Mrs. Van- dewater. a teacher in Public Shoo! No. 56, borough of Queens, for the month of October the members of the Board of Education have precipitated the action whith the school teacher sontemplates ‘bringing agathst them for t preferred against her or Jct. 26! Mrs, Vandewater refured to resign her position as teacher when called upon by the school authorities, who disc ered that she was married last summer, A by-law of the Board of Education makes vacant the place of any woman teacher or supervisor who marries. This by-law Mrs, Vandewater {s going to fight, first in the trial which ts set for next week before the Elementary Schools were ever made up to in be- ance to any $25 clothes ken y Judge Kellogg, in Yonkers, Oxford Cheviots, Be- Moshier, for the Captain, which hiated| QVERCOATS of dressy Vicunas, that there was a great scandal behind OVERCOATS of smartest Coverts, WILL FIGHT BY-LAW Top Coats and: Suits—Big Offer An advantage that no man may mi with any sort of fairness to himself. The ine pensive test of examination will prove everythitig The cloths are of much higher grade than tailoring is precisely the same as goes $18 and $20 garments. Top Coats are smart, swagger, best $15 ones you ever saw. A_set-| SUITS of high grade Thibets, tlement was effected by which Capt.| SUITS of Lin Lilienthal promised to make a certain! Suits of fine Unfinished Worsteds, fore the settlement was effected certain | SUITS of nobbiest Mixed Cassimeres, by Lawyer| SUITS of Scotch and Irish Homespuns, Committee of the Board of) and then, if the matter.goes against in the courts proper. Should Mrs. Vandewa' anid ng jod collect back pay from the dismissal. —ee SENATORS FAVOR OLIVER, . Report Ordered on is Appoint z ment as Assistant WASHINGTON, Nov. nin “ nation of Robert Shaw Oliver; of York, to be Assistant Secretary of Waa was ordered to be favorably re i the @enate Committee on ‘Mitftary FY a VINCENTsays Fe in clothes rade to: individual measure =D have an especially Attractive! Opportunity. in my. -Customy Department. A Blue Chevs jot, plain or hi x stripe, made single or. breasted, with all the touches of fashion that ¢ Style and Individuality, Broadway—22d Street. ixth Avenue—izth Street. sell at this price. The into: the The finished: Seite aa equal in a ppear~ and equal in fact to the and sisters, and aroused the anger of her mothe: About six months ago she was told thet she would either have to remain at home and help her mother with the housework or secure employment. She tried to get’ work, but failed. After a scene with her mother she went to the home of her married sister, Mrs. Mary Mahler, of No. 9 Beach piace, and there tled a cord around her neck and was al- most strangled when discovered, She got a place in a Brooklyn store three weeks ago and remained there un- til her chum attempted suicide, The news of this completely unnerved Agnes She resigned and went back to Her brother Joseph says that Mrs. Car- ney insisted that Agnes should get an- other place. The girl protested that she was unable to work, and there we quent arguments, culminating yes in an open quarrel in the family, at the conclusion of which Agnes went to the home of Mrs. Mahler, She slipped out of the house at 10 o'clock last night and a short distance away met a young man to whom she said that she was going to kill herself. He made no effort to stop her, but went assistant Bank, one of the wealthiest citizens of Jackson, and St! and Warren County, committed sulclde to-day. He had been Ill for some time. wife. .\ son was born to her, and then it 4s alleged that Capt. Lilllenthal be- came so neglectful of the-wife that she was forced to seek employment to sup- port herself and baoy. She left New i ian SSE to the home of Mrs. Mahler and told her what Agnes had said. A search of the neighborhood was made and she was found after three hours hiding under a bed In the house of a friend at No. 32 Degraw street. Joseph Carney carried her to the home of Mrs. Mahler and she was put to bed there. She appeared to be suffering from a form of epilepsy. She feigned sleep and her brother left the room. While he was gone she drank the con- tents of a bottle of oll of wintergreen and chloroform that had been used as a lniment. ——— SENATOR A SUICIDE. JACKSON, Miss., Nov. 12.—F. B. Neal, cashier of the Merchants’ enator from Hinds did not bring happiness to the young | wir, the uifferences between the husband and re, Capt. Lilllenthal's son, the child now in the mountains, will inherit by the will of his parental grandfather $2,000,000 when he becomes of age, the will having been made before the disayreements arose between the husband and wife. PATROLMAN ACQUITTED. Roger Donohue Was Charged by Club with Oppression. Patrolman Roger Donohue, of the West Thirty-seventh street station, who OVERCOATS of. Kerseys, Meltons, Oxf --ds, Sn: W0ODs @ Open Saturday Evenings till 9. 740-742 BROADWAY. 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