The evening world. Newspaper, April 29, 1904, Page 5

a - a es * ? SSL, Ge pi —_— FT §. S. Page Coming Here to Try to Learn Why Mrs. S. J. Keim Killed Herself at the Hotel Vendome. VICTIM IN LETTER NAMED W. M. SHAW AND “WOMAN.” Said She Had Choice Between Street or Death — Banker Admits Knowing Widow, but Hadn’t Seen Her of Late. ' After leaving 2 remarkable letter, in which she named the man she held re- sponsible for her downfall, and request- jing the Coroner to make public all the (facts connected with her death, Mrs. S J. Keim, an exceedingly attractive widow, thirty-two years uld, committed suicide by talking carbolle acid tn her apartment in the Hotel Vendome. 9990D F-20956 06-9-00-0-0 read POO EOOD The man she mentioned in her letter | ¢ to the Coroner is W. M. Shaw, 4 wealthy retired banker and broker, Itv- | ‘ Ing at No. 16 West Twenty-fifth street He is well known in soctety and is a elubman and president of the exclusive Was Once Wealthy. At one time Mrs. Keim possessed con- derable wealth, which was left to her iby her husband, who died eight years ago. | Mre. Ketm wns found lying on the bed, and the evidence of her suicide rwas plain, Besiie her lay an empty four-ounce bottle that had contained earbolic acid, and her Itps and hands ‘wore seared by the poison. ‘The Coroner was notified and at once took possession of the letters left by the dead woman. In one note she laaked that EB. O. Shaffner, of No. 317 Broad street, Harrisburg, be notified. ‘Another letter to the Coroner contained the following remarkable statement: “I am driven to this deed. I have fought against it for a long time. I am driven to this by the man to whom ,I have given my all. I have tried hard ?to struggle along. I do not want to die. | “This act may kill my dear old mother, but I had to choose between the streets and death. I prefer the latter. "The man who 4s responsible for all ig |W. M. Shaw, of No, 16 West Twenty- ffth street. I begged him to help me ite a place where I could support my- \pelf honorably. but my appeals were all fin vain, Friends When She Had Money. “When I had plenty of money 1 had Jenty of friends. But without money y friends deserted me. 1 have nothing leit, 1 have made a hard fight, but God pity any woman who becomes the dupe of a man, as I have been of Mr. (Shaw. The woman who lives at No, 215 TWest Forty-fourth street has reason to know of my trouble. “I hope she will never suffer as I thave suffered, 1 have few friends now, Miss Johnson, of this house, will say @ood-by to my friends for me, Please end for the man whose name {s men- tdoned here. He will notify my brothers, Frank Page and 8. 8. Page, of Oberlin, Pa. “To Molly I give my brown dress, I wish no secret to be inade of my death, @ want my friends to know how I sut- fered. Dear old mother, good-by. Goa less you! You would be glad that my sufferings are at an end, if you only knew what I have suffered for the past five years, God bless you again, My love t children, Mrs. 8, After reading the letter Scholer showed It to the news} q Present and then sent Detectives Kirk longer. ives him. Shaw is abo lool:s like a pro He told tho Coroner he had known Mrs. Keim for ten or twelve y He seld he had also known h husband, who was formerly a member of the firm of Jarrett & Keim, wholesale grocers in Philadelphia, He said that Keim had died about eight or ten years ago and left his widow a considerable fortune. He intimated that most of the money had been Icat in unfortunate specula- tlons and investmerts. When told of the accusations made against him by Mrs. Kelm in her letter, Bhaw grew very pale. He sald the charges were absurd, He sald he had n her once or twice in the last years, He said he had occasionally given her financial assistance in re- sponse to appeals made to him by letter, but that otherwise he knew nothing of her, in speaking of Mrs, Kelm's relatives, ¥ said that 8. 8. Puge, her brother, is real-estate man in Oberlin, hey and was for several years a member of the Pennsylvania Legislature, Ie 1x coming here to Investigate the cause of his sulclde. The Coroner cum nclusion that he could not hold nd he was permitted to depart. Mrs. Keim had lived at the Hotel ‘Vendome about six months, and had always paid her bills as they came due, She had recently complained of finan: celal embarrassment. Word was received from her brothers in Oberlin that they would ,arrive here to-day. Manager Green, of the Vendome, also rec telegram from C. 0. he Y. relatives, ‘was n undertaking shop at No. 620 a nue. m Harrisburg that Mrs. Kelm hud visited there three weeks ago and seemed to be in the best ef spirits. She gave no intimation of her troubles. Her mother Is prostrated with erief at Oberlin a JAMES B. F, SMITH PROMOTED. James B, Franklin Smith has been promoted by the unanimous vote of all the Justices of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court to the place of calendar clerk of the Special Term of the Supreme Court, late Thomas Boese. and a memorial signed by all the seventeen Justices sit- ing in trial and special terms was ad- seased to the Appellate Division askin aris promotion. . He succeeds the DR, ££, CONRAD 1S AGAIN ARRESTED, Physician Out on Baif Locked Up Together with Policeman J. J. Beckart on Charges Brought by a Woman. Dr. Edward E. Conrad, who ta under $12,000 bond on an appeal from a con- viction for attempting to perform an iMegal operation, was arrested last night with Policeman James J. Beckart, of the West One Hundredth street station, on an indictment charging illegal prac- tice. The arrest was made by Detec- tive-Sergt, McNaught, of the District- VENDOME SUICIDE. WHO BLAMED HER TROUBLE UPON A BANKER - SUSTERS SUICIDE Attorney's staff. When Dr. Conrad was arrested through the County Medical Society's efforts a few weeks ago, accounts of | the arrest and trial were read by one Margaret Daly, @ servant in a mansion in the west_end of Harlem, She went to Champe S. Andrews, counsel for the c eal Society, and told the | Thomas Farrell Knocked Down! by Machine Going at Rapid | Rate—Occupants Put on Full; Speed and Escape. i Thomas Farrell, twenty-nine years oid, | living at Conover lane and Sheeps- | head Bay road, 8 ead Bay, is County Hos- the left thigh, of being knocked by an automoblle tune avenue and Ocean Parkway, waiting for a car, when the machine approached at a’ rapld pace. As it heared him it swerved out and knocked him down, The occupants of the ve- hicle did#iot pause to see what damage they had done, but put on full speed and hurried away. Farrell lay there for a few minutes before he was discovered by passing pedestrians, who notified the police. An iimbulance ‘Was summoned, and he was taken to the hospital. He could not say how many persons were in the automohile, and did not see the num- ber of It. ———___ Sare to Be Talented. (From the Detrott Free Press.) 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