The evening world. Newspaper, February 7, 1921, Page 9

FRIENDS OF ARTIST ‘ANOW NO REASON FOR HIS SUICIDE, BURIED WITH HER Pa = Soe Wilson C. Dexter Crushed to Death at 33d Street Station —Wreckers Extricate Body. Wriends of Wilson C. Dexter, well known artist and Harvard graduate, who was killed instantly by a Sixth Avenue “L"” train at 7 o'clock last night when’ he plunged from the 4a Street Station platform, are try- ing to-day to plece together what was known of his affairs to throw light on the police report of suicide, Mr. Dexter, who had a studio at No, 54 West 37th Street and lived at POISONED NURSE'S: SECRETS WILL BE Coroner Refuses to Give Names of Helen Hopkins’s Former Employers. Helen Hoprins, who died of arsen- feal polsoning in New Brunswick, N. J., Wednesday, is to be buried there this afternoon at ¥ o'clock. No rela- tives of the nurse have been located, nor has the mystery of how she be- came poisoned two weeks ago been cleared. “She has been positively identi- fled,” W. F. Harding, the undertaker, f who is also Coroner for Middlesex County, said yesterday. “She's Helen ‘the Hotel Irving, No. 26 Gramercy Park with his wife and two children, Harriett, 8, and Chase, 6, had just been to a rafiroad station to put them on a train for Brookfield, Mass., where his wife's father, C. L. Fille- brown, resides. Passengers on the station platform aid they saw him pacing up and down nervously and that just as the train rolled into the station he plunged to the track. Thomas Wilson, motorman of the train, said later be had seen Mr. Dexter on the platform but did not seo him leap in front of the train. Both north and southbound plat- forms were crowded with waiting passengers who saw the tragedy. As the train swept over the artist's body there were hysterical screams from women, some of whom fainted. Mr. Dexter had a bank book show- ing an account at the Corn Exchange Bank. Hotel employees said he ap- peared to be prosperous, Recently he bought a farm at Woodstock, the artists’ colony, and had it remodelled at considerable expense. He was a son of Wallace D, Dexter, a promi- nent artist, and at Harvard was a momber of the Lampoon Board. His brother, Dunbar Dexter, who was Hopkins, a practical nurse; she had no home, but went from place to place, nursing, and in her work as- sisted several prominent people in New York a well as a prominent physician with whom she was usso- ciated thirteen years.” The Coroner refused to give the names of her former employers, say- ing they should not be annoyed. She left a small sum of money, #0 or more, Coroner Herding sald, which will be ‘aufficient to give her burial ii LIES ON “L” TRACK; UNHURT BY TRAIN Squirrel Hooch Inspires Man to Climb Pillar and Give Breath- less Crowd a Thrill. Frank O'Neill of No, 991 Second Ave- nue climbed a pillar of the Third Ave- nue "L” at 524 Street, last night, saw @ train approaching and lay down be- tween the ralis. A crowd which had watched him saw the train pass over him and thoughthim dead. Patrolmen Harrington and Smith of the East bist Street Station ran along the structure, expecting to have to handle a body, but O'Neill arose and waved his hat at the crowd in the street, The patrolmen guatled him to Night Court, where Magistrate Froth- Ingham sent him to prison for two days. captain of the Harvard baseball team, is touches, Blue Chambray, white and cuffs, bound with blue organdie collar, cuffs and buttons; also model with collar and cuffs. striped and figured Percale. rickrack, . Bungalow solid colors, models rons, 38th Street Extra Values Striped Gingham, kimono sleeves. 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At the present rate of exchange they believe thelr, savings 2,000 to $5,000 each will entitle them to be" eatled rich in the home circles oh Fn STEAMERS IN COLLISON. In a heavy fox off Fire Island yester- day morning the British freighter City of Auckland, outbound, cante in colli- sion, bow on, with the United States Shipping Board freighter, Bethelridge, homeward bound. Both vessels were badly stove in but managed to make port slowly in the afternoon under their own ste: ‘The Hetheiriage, rahe more serlounsty dumaged. proceeded to dry dock | In Brooklyn, ‘The City of Auckland docked at Bush Terminal, 34 GO TO PRISON WHO AYOID WORK IN OLD VIRGINIA Others Ordered to Leave Town Are Now in Exile at New- port News, « NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Feb. 7. —The order to go to work, quit the city or go to jail, issued last ‘week by the City Council here, has resulted in an exodus of 300 idlers and the sending of 34 men to jail for ten days each. 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