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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Blyth Standard, 1908-02-20, Page 2FOUGHT OFF HIS LYNCHERS. WOUNDED TEN AND FOUR OF THEM MAY DIE. Killed Father of Man Who Killed His Brother—Murderer Fought the Mob to a Standstill—Had to Beat Him to Death Before They Hanged Him. Valdosta, Ga., Feb, 17.—Attacked by • *anted' of lynchers yesterday just across the Florida line, Jack Long, e white man, fought his assailants desperately, wound- ing ten of them, and foaling the others to kill him in the fight. Long waa ao- cused of killing James Sapp a wealthy citizen A son of Sapp had killed a bro- ther of Long and escaped. Long saw the father of the elayer and shot him to death, Long was arrested and 60 men visited the prison and took the prisoner out to hang him, A spec- tator Bays Long fought the mob to a standstill in the prieon, but was knock- ed down with a club as he ran out of the door. Then another fight ensued, in which the combined strength of the men was required to subdue the prisoner. A start to a place four hundred yards distant was made, but Long fought every inch of the way, the path being marked with splotches of blood. It is said he was beaten to death be, fore he was finally hanged.. Four of the members of the mob were wounded so badly that they may die. CROSSING ACCIDENTS •FIGURES USED BY SENATOR SCOTT DISPUTED. Senate Passes the Grain Distribution Bili --Col, Davidson Gave No Reason for Resigning=Provincial and Do- minion Land Surveyors. Ottawa despatch: In the Senate to- day Hon. R. W. Scott, in reply to a query'3rom Sennator Landry, stated that Lieut.-Ool: °' yidson, lin resigning the command 'ofhe Toronto Infantryy Bri- gade, Oct. 10, 1907, gave no reason for tendering his resignation. Hon. x, W. Scott brought down a re- turn showing aocodonnte at railroad eroas- inggss. He said that there waa Consider- able interest iu this question, owinng to the Lsrtoaater bill, Ite called attention to titefiret that statistics Showed that, oontraay to general opinion, there were more fatal accidents at rural highway erosaings than at street or highway crossings in thickly settled- portions of dtrea, towns and pillages. Senator Ferguson culled attention to the fact that the figures given were for accidents "at points where two railways OPUS, and net of deaths at'fioints where highwaye crossed railways. In committee on the Dominion hand aurveybill, Senator Kerr moved that the Provincial crtificate and ten years' practice should entitle a stu'voyor to a Dominion certificate. Hon, Mr. Scott asid the present system had been in Sorge since 1879, and the Provinces had declined to practise reciprocity in this matter. The amendment was declared lost, and progress was reported or the bill. The bill to enable the Government to maks advances to enable settlers in the west to obtain seed grain was intro- duced by Hon. Mr, Scott and put through all the stagea, It will bo as- sented to by the Governor-General to- morrow, RUSH OF IMMIGRANTS. Halifax Officials Expect Influx to Begin Soon, Halifax, Feb. 17.—Within a few weeks the immigration officials expect that intraiga-i me will be pouring into Hali- te* at the rate of four or five thousand a week, and if this keeps up duringthe remaining months that European steam - era are running her; it is expected that an r+eoords for numbers landed at this ppoortwill be broken. So far the member project this season ie about the sane as at this time lost season, for, although immigration has fallen off very much sines the first of the year, there was a brig increase during November and Dec- ember over the same months in the pre- vious year. , Arrivals in January and for the first ,week of February during 1907 were much greater than during the same time this year.• Only about seven thousand immigranta have so far landed here this season, but about the first of March it le expected the rush will begin. Labor aliti0pe are improving now, and seven beans will be clocking cath s,will mean an average of .4 • FED =INJUNCTION. ers Receive heavy €ts+ 'meas, New York, Feb. 17,,--jhgsid,:nt Pat- rick II. McCormick, of tl local branch of the Typographical Un (S, known as Jackson 'x ai u1 George �.• ?. the Big i, :-. and Vincent ,J. Costello union organizers, to -day were fined 5230 cavi ,hind Sen- tenced to twenty days' imprisonmsnt for disobeying ant injunction obtained WAl Typothetae of New York in 1 Thomas Bennett and William Anderson were fined $100 on the sante charge. Sen. tenet)was imposed by Justice Bischoff in the Supreme Court. This is the first time a heavy sentence for violation of an injunction has been imposed hi these courts against a labor organization. The troubles grew out of the strike in 1006 of Typographical Union No. 6, commonly called "Bix Six," for closed shop and an eight- hour day. Soon after the strike the officers of the Typothetae of the city of New Yorlc, the employers' association, against whom it was declared, complain- ed that the strikers were prnctieing in- timidation against their employees. The union was enjoined from eontinn- ing the practices rlarged, but the em- ployers held that the nets of violence and oppression continued, and asked that the members of the union be punished. A referee took testimony and the charges led on his report. and recommendation the sentences were imposed. JAP WELCOME. Will be Allowed to Join in Wel- come to U. S. Fleet. Los Angeles, Feb, 17.—The American- Japanmee rnpliroa.chenent was the fea- ture of the meeting of the fleet oomxnit- tee in the courted'. clambers yesterday. The Japanese offer to help entertain Roar Admiral Evans and his bhiejackete wee accepted in "the spirit in which it was made.,' The members of the committee consid- ered that the voluntary, offer of the Japaaneee was so extraordinarily mag- mentmotts and praiseworthy that they pawed a epecial resolution accepting the offer. di 4 REV. DR PATTON, CHOSEN Successor to Dr. Workman at Wesleyan College, Montreal deepatelr: At a tweeting of the Board of Governors of Wesleyan College„ Rev. Dr. Walter Id, Patton, of Baldwin University, Kansas, was ap- pointed successor to Rev. Dr. Workman, in the chair of Oriental literature and. Old Testament exegesis. Dr. Patton was a former Montrealer, having hold the chair in Wesleyan College in 1902, He 1s forty-five years of age, and was born in Toronto. Ile was cdmcated at the high School, Montreal, leaving it to go into business in this city, and afterwards in Chicago. Returning to Montreal, he took up theological studies at Wesleyan College, afterwards going to Europe, where he studied Oriental iiiterature at Leyden and I-leidelberg, Nib the last of which he gnadeated with the degree of Ph, D. IIe returned to Montreal to ob- cupy a chair in Wesleyan College during the years 1901 and 1902. In 100E he took ministerial charge at Beacon's Falls, Connecticut, at the same time assisting Professor Sanders at Yale in Oriental languages. In 1904 he was appointed to the chair of Oriental literature in Bald- win University, Kansas, which chair he held up to his recent appointment to Wesleyan College, He will assume his new duties May 1 of this year. 4 • DARING BURGLARS CONVICTED. Loot From Private Residences Amounted to Hundreds of Dollars, Montreal, Feb. 17.--'l'wo of the most alert and daring burglars in the crim- inal recorder of this city were convicted by Judge Cloquet to -day in the Court df Sessions. They are Frederick L. L, Wegener, a German carpenter, and Rose Freeman, to whom he declares he 10 married. The catalogue of their crimes is not yet complete; but to -day they were format guilty of three chargee of burg- lary, the most important and most notorious of which war breaking into the residence in MneOregor street of Mr. James Crathern, and stealing silver -plate valued at $1,200. The other charges were of stealing b,. ,burglary $280 worth of silver from private residerwes, They will be sem fenced later. ♦-♦ LIABLE TO 1,461 YEARS. So Claims States Attorney in Otto Hugo Case. Berlin Feb- 17.—"The accused has in- curred lines amounting to 52,000,000, or, in default, 1,461 years and two months' imprisonment," declared the State's at. torney in the criminal division of the Berlin County Court, in the case against Otto Hugo, for breach of the law of August, 1904, prohibiting the sale of non -Prussian lottery tickets within Prus- sian territory. The court, however, decided that as the circulars had all been issued in two days and thus technically only two of- fences committed, a fine of 5376, or, in default, 100 days' infprisomnent, would teach the defendant a lesson, The State's Attorney entered an Ob- jection to the court's reading of the law. NEW YORK TO PARIS. First Automobile Starts on Overland Journey. New York, Feb. 17.—Three automobil- lsts in a big foreign car started to- day on a 22,000 -mole overland journey from Lew York to Paris. The start was made from the Pulitzer building. the first stage of the 'o and s g journey will be completed at Philadelphia. From the Pennsylvania city the autonobiliets will strike out straight across the continent, The oeoupants of the car are Eugene D, ,`,The Maurice Drocghe and Max : , regtilarly; organized New Paris ram with, „aleree French, One tenon, one German. . pd' one Am- erican entrants, will be etted at 11 a, m, to -morrow. The route will be across the continent, through Canaa, to tat Alaska, across Bering' Strait and o to the French capital. THE THIRD DEGREE Trial of Percy Bowin For Murder of a Detroit Woman. Detroit, Feb, 17.—Tho trial of Percy Bonin, the 18 -yeas -old Canadian boy, charged with the murder of Mrs, Welch, has been set for 1'elt, 24, but \fr, Ken- nedy, llossin's attorney, says he cannot be ready before the March term of the lteeordei's Court. Judge Phelan said that if'woes:tory the trial would be post- poned until Murch, as he would insist upon every opportunity being given the young man to prove hie innocence. The judge over -ruled Mr, Kennedy's motion to quash the information against Bonin on the grounds that he had been induced to plead guilty lin the Police Court by Captain of Detectives McDonnell. Nr. Kennedy violently assailed officials of the police department, accusing then of taking advantage of Bowin's youth and Ignorance of legal mattere 30 an effort to railroad him to prison, ♦ • WAS A BIGAMIST.' WOMAN MURDERED IN CINCINNATI HAD TWO HUSBANDS. Letter Found Among Her Belongings Written to Her by Man in Texas Who Had Married Her Knowing Her to be Booth's Wife. Cincinnati, Feb. 17,—Mrs, Madeline A. Booth, who was chopped to death With it ha ehet in the home of Dr. Hoppe, was a bigamist, fleeing from the math of her Mistimed, James 11. Booth, a former Toronto eontracto•, This was brought out at the inquest to -day, when letters found in the woman's , effects were read. One letter signed T. J. De- wier, and written from .Millers Grove, Te-xna, August 10, 100(1, is n confession of wrol dour� The letter is addressed to Mrs. Madeline A, Dotter, and the writer calls her "Dear wife," In Ode let- ter Devior says that liooth haat tracked him to Minneapolis, and had him ar- rested, but that he ("seeped from the po- lice there, end had just landed in Texas. He urged the woman to flee to Mexi- co with him. "Madejine," he writes, "you know that they can sentence you to anywhere from five to fifIeen years in Canada, and not leas than three years in Minnesota, and I den't know what they would do to me if they caught me again, for they know Hint I knew you were the wife of J. 13. Booth whey we were married. and I suppose they would hang me." The unordered woman se- aretly secured a divorce from Booth here three weeks ago, The police ns yet have no definite clue to the noarder. Neither have they been able to locate either Bootle or Devier. Sault Ste, Marie, Ont, Feb, 11.—The Boothe, as well rte the nnmeroue trou- bles which have filled their wexided life, are well known in the Soo, and the news from Cincinnati will cause no little sur- prise. The Cienodian Soo polies state that the couple were wedded in Toronto a number of y000ra ago, following en ad- vertisement placed in a Toronto paper by Mrs, Booth. This was llooth's sec- ond voyage on the metrinnonial sea and apparently it wars not a happy one. The couple frequently quanl•elled once Booth's children 1\v hie former wife, and these troubles led them occasionally in- to the police nrurt. Disputes over their property in the Sao 1101 not ten<I to make mutters better, and about a year and a half ago they separated, Mrs. Booth leaving the Sc,,oIt is said by the .pollee that there has been trouble between them since that time. Mrs. Booth owned a lionise in the Soo near the stone school in the west end, and Booth also owns considerable pro- perty in the city. For sometime Booth has been engaged on contosct work In the Northwest, and left the Roe for that place abort a week or 00 ago. Sines then, >1 letter has arrived from him darted at Caspar, Sask.. and referring to certain supplies required in his eontruet work. CARS FOR WOMEN ONLY, Innovation Proposed by the London County Council. London, Feb. 17. ---Cars for women only will probably be ram on lines con- trolled by the London County Council at rush hours:;, liming the morning there are always wild struggles to board the cars at many suburban terminals, and in order that women and girls may be able to avoid this fight for places the innovation is proposed. An olficinl said London will be the first city to have special tramway oars for women. The crush at Tooting for Broadway, for instnrce, between seven and eight in the morning is almost wick- ed. I have sten y oma, girls on the wary to the city have their hats almost torn off and thein hair disau,u;_. as well as their dresses cowered with mud from dirty booty. COMPANIES WARNED. Compliance With Provisions of New Act Compulsory. 14y the new Companies Act, which erne trap force ou July 1 last, the 3181- lowfngnt,art ctsrespweree repealed: Aa ctong cheese and butter - making toesociation nd companies. II act respeetiI - e'operatire associa- \n: act respecting beltpbolent°;C provi- dent and outer societies, An act to provide forethe incorporation of cc -operative cold storage aaaoeititione.,, All compauiaal' therefore, incorporated' under any of the above statutes are now within the provisions of the Com- pnniee Adt, and= ora obliged to make annual returns to the Provincial Sure. tary's Department, The department hes distributed forme to all companies, of which the names and addresses could be obtained, but there aro many companies impossible to be reached. Such companies should therefore apply to the deportment for forms and cone pieto and file theta at the earliest possi- ble date, thus avoiding the heavy penalties imposed by the act for failure to comply with Its provisions in this respect. AGAINST USURERS. Report That Warrant Has Been Issued For Money Lender. Montreal, Feb. 17.—The first result of the renewed crusade against newers in this city is the issuing of a warrant for the attest of C. E. Campbell, a well- known money lender, who, it is alleged,' has violated the criminal law relating to usury. /Settee has been taken by Col. Hubbard; noting under instruetrcna from the Attroaey-Gsncral, end it is stated that Campbell has left the city. MRS, MACDONALD ACQUITTED. Found Not Guilty of Shooting Webster Guerin at Chicago. Chicago, 111., Feb. 17.—Mrs, Dora Mc- Donald, who has been on trial here since January 20 on the charge of murdering Webster Guerin, was acquitted by a jury M the Criminal Court to -night. The verdict was reached after six and a half hours. The defendant, who is the widow of Michael C. McDonald, formerly a poli- tical leader in Chicago, received the verdict without apparent emotion, Web- ater Guerin was shot and killed in his studio in the Omaha building, LaSalle and Van Buren streets, February 21, 1907, Mfrs, McDonald was alone with him when the tragedy occurred, and was uunediatcly arrested and charged with the murder. The shock of the tragedy proved disastrous to McDon- ald, and he died Angust 9, 1907, after au illness of several weeks, It developed at the trial just eonohtd- ed, that Guerin and Aire, lora McDon- ald had been more or leas intimate for almost ten years, their relations having begun when Guerin was leas than sev- enteen yeas old, Tho State asserted that Guerin had attempted to dissolve these relations, and that the woman shot hire In a jealous rage, FRAUD ON GRAND TRUNK, James B. Lehoman Has Charge of Smuggling Chinese Against Him. Montreal, Feb. I7.—James B. Leh- neman, who for—some time was bartend- er at the Russell Hotel; St. Janna greet, was arrested yesterday afternoon in Boston on a charge of manipulating Grand 'bunk Railway tickets to an extent which entails the lass of several thousand dollars to the company. The schemes by which the tickets were bought, sold, exchanged, and otherwise manipulated are alleged to have been formulatecl fn November of last year. Leluemnn was the man who, with Goodman Phillips, engineered the Chin• nee smuggling expedition, in which the yacht Fritz was used, and they were to have appeared for sentence in a short time. -Meanwhile Lehneman is out on two thousand dollars cash bail, He will be brought back here for sentence. NATIONALIZING BRITISH ROADS. The Question Brought Up in House of Commons. London, Feb. 17.—The house of Com- mons this evening debated the question of the nationalization of the railways, on the motion of a private member. Tho discussion drew from Mr, Lloyd -George, president of the Board of Trade, a statement on behalf of the Government that the time had come for an enquiry into the whole subject, He thought the companies, on the whole, had done their best for tloe public, but were run rather too much by swells. This statement was greeted with loud cheers and laughter by the Lib- erals and Laborites, It was evident throughout the. discussion that there 01015 a considerable hods of opinion in favor of nationalization, TRAMPLED TO DEATH. Mrs, S. Mahan, of Sidney, Man,, Killed by a Vicious Horse. Carberry, flan., Feb. 17. --Mrs S. Mahan, wife. of a prominent resident of Sidney, flan„ was trampled to death by a vicious horse which she had attempt- ed to feed in the stable at her ltua- bond's farm. The woman wars found unconscious in the stall beside the ani- mal by o1rs. MrElrca, a neighbor, who lifted he away and ran for assistance. It is believed the woman must have re- gained consciousness and again wander- ed into the stall. When she was finally taken out she was so badly mangled that she lived only a few minutes. She leaves n family of four small children. SAYS FRANCE STEALS MELINITE, Turpin, the Inventor, to Begin Damage Suit for at Million, Paris, Feb. 17,—The Journal says that Turpin, the inventor of the high explo- sive known as melinite, will sue the Gov. eminent, alleging that it robbed him of his invention. He asks damages to the amount of $1,000,000. His charge is that the Government, in conjiumtion with certain manufacturers, has been -furnishing melinitc to Russia, Japaut,Spain, Brazil and Venezuela. DOUMAAND FINLAND Her Reia'ions With Russia to be Discussed in Parliament. St. Petersburg, Feb. 17.—The rela- lions between Russia and the Grand Duchy of Finland, which for a long time have been the subject of serious discus- sion in the higher• audmiobsirative circles of the Empire and the Grand Duchy, will now be raised in the Douma by the Octohorists, who have decided to attack as a salient point, the absence of control by M. Stolypin, the Russian Premier, over the reports of the Finnish Secretary of State to the Emperor, demand the ownershipre of Vibe g dising trict ct be restored to Russia, and that measures to crush the national aspirations of Finland be adopted. TO COLLECT PENALTY, Suit Against Recorder Dupuis, of Mont- real, for Occupying Seat. Montreal Feb. 17.—Mr, Joseph 'Lan• ouette, saddler, of this city, acting through Mr. Arthur Boauohesne, has en- tered action in the Superior Court to have Recorder Dupuis condemned to pay the sum of $43,000 as a penalty of $1,000 per day, incurred by hint for hav- ing eat in the Legislature for a period of 43 days, during which he ie. alleged to have been disqualifiedthrough having entered into contracts with the Govern- ment. The elaogos aro that Mr, Dupuis bousk for $25 islands in the township of Godnnancheeter and timber limits at French River, jointly with the Union ling & Paper Company, for the sum of $25,884, TURKEY WITHDRAWS. Troubles of Persian Border at an End for the Present. St. Petersburg Feb. 17.—The with- drawal of Turkish troop* from the Per- sian territory to the west of Tabriz, on well aa the more conciliatory spirit shown at Constantinople, Is regarded here as obviating the necessity for the present of taking further precautionary treasures on the Turkish and Persian frontiers, and it le probable that the despatch of troops from the interior of Russia to the Caucasus will be abandon- ed pending further developments. The statements that Russia was concentrat- ing a force of sixty thousand mon lbr a military demonstration against Turkey can be dismissed. --a5•- KAISER'S SON IN PARIS. First Official Visit of German Prince Since aye. Paris, Feb. 17.—Prince Eitel Freder- ick, second son of Emperor William of Germany, who arrived here last night, accompanied by the members of his suite from Lisbon, where he represent- ed Germany at the funeral eervicea of the late King and Crown Prince of Por- tugal, left Paris thio afternoon for Ber- lin. This is the first time since the Franoo#>russian war that a member of the royal house of Prussia has come to Paris other than in a private capac- ity. It is generally believed that the Prince's visit will have a good influence on the relations between France and Germany. 4 • MUSICIAN'S SAD ENDING. Inhaled Gas While He Played His Violin. New York, Feb. 17.—With a gas tube in bis mouth and inhaling gas while he played his violin, Morris Schwartz cow• mated suicide to -day at his home in First street. He was found by Mrs. Ab- raham Broeckmaui, pais landlady, with his violin bow in his right hand, and his in- strument, beloved above all other things in life, laying across his knee and clasp-, ed firmly in hie left hand, The young mon had ambition for a musical career. He had taken lessons on the violin and had displayed trues of genuine talent. The neighbors hoard hien playing sweet nnls1c for hours to- day, but the strains finally, died away, and then the suicide was discovered. • • DON'T BOLT OUT OF BED. You Should Rest Wakefully for Twenty Minutes First, Paris, Feb. 17,—The French Academy of Sciences to -day listened sympathetic- ally to an address by Dr. Savary, who warned lois hearers against the dangers of rising immediately upon awakening from sleep, He said the strenuous busi- ness man who bolts out of bed to his bath tub the moment he opens his eyes in the morning renders himself liable to a number of ailments, including madness. It was absolutely necessary, Dr. Savary declared, to rest wakefully In bed for twenty minutes before getting op. --• NEW JAP LOAN. Effort Being Made to Float It in Paris. Paris, Feb. 17.—The report is again current in banking circles that the Jap- anese Government 10 trying to float a loan in Paris through tete Banque de Paris, at Des Pays -Bas. An official :of this bank said to -day that a commission sent by it to Japan, had just returned, but further thanthis he would make no statement. The Japanese Embassy de- clined to confine or deny the report, but it was intimated that a statement rela- tive to this matter night be given out to-morow. FIREMEN FIGHT Blazing Ice Floes in East [fiver N. Y. New Yorl:, Feb. 17. --The ice I'M, in f:;t I Fiver were tut fife this wd e l rennin,; nn I:uld f o n d of over a bloc: along the where.,: to the 0hurda'd Oil Conupatiy a Astral 011 works, s, branch at the foot of North l2lh rued North 13111 streets Williamsburg, when 300,000 gallons of ease naphtha gasolene and kerosene stored ready far shipment mere licked up in sheets of flame. Clusters of refining tank crude oil vats and the great gas Lulls of the Brooklyn union Ctrs Company, all in the immediate uemily of the , fin, made the work of the firemen as ticklish as that of any storming party at Port Arthur, "and it was only Lite quirt: noel: of the oil company in emptying •the threatening tanks tint prevented a emelt greater spaced or the flumes, Before the mea of the fire oras defined by the hard work of the firemen three buildings and a wharf had been cousum- sd and, the loss to the Standard Oil Com- pany was roughly put tut beftteeu 2.10,- 000 and 5300,000, DOWIE'S WIDOW Aspires to Wear the Mantle of Elijah at Zion City. Chicago, Feb. 17.—The Tribune to -day say Mrs, Janie Dowle aspires to her late husband's place as 'head of the Christian Catholic Claude, and bcliei cs she is :Destined to bring the warring factious at Zion togethee. 4t tier home, near :Muskegon, she ds making plans to induce the formerfol- lowers of the late John Alexander Dobe to tally to her standard, accost- ing to statements mala at Waukegan, Ill., yesterday. She hopes to tune up her husband's projects, if elle secures tl, desired pnsit'on. She made a nerret visit to Zion City or•.T» esdty, it is said, wills this end in view, it being her f5i•at apyoearuwe there in many months, She conferred with Dr. Askin, who is secre- tary of a new movement, which propos, es to call Overseer Bryant back front Anstralia to lead the people. ODD DECOCTION. Man Imbibes Brewed Cigarette Tobacco. Buffalo, Feb. 17. ---When the devotion of his son Joseph to nicotine included the,' drinking of a. potion, brewed of tobacco' and hot water, Joln A, Stahel, 117 Oak street, caused the arrest of the youth, on a charge of insanity, yesterday. Ile i.s held by tlm-Penrl street police, pending on examination by Dr. Fowler, police physician. Insomnia, induced by excessive cigar - clic smoking, has undermined the con- stitutioi and caused the ruin of his son, ua:mating to the story of the distracted father. "Hints nt suicide have driven his mother frantic," said Mr, Stahel yester day. "'.When Joe goes to bed he leaves cigarettes and matches on n. chair. and wakes op every hour during the night to smoke. lie curses every physician we bring to examine him, and will not work; He seems to.be.in a doped conditiorall the time, rad we fear that his mind bl giving way. 'When we summoned the police to -day the was lying in a semi- comatose condition on the bed...Of.'afe helms been drinking a fluid vvbich he makes of hot water and "cigarette tobacco" PROMPT POSTY. DELIVERY OF FAREWELL LETTER SAVES WOMAN'S LIFE, 1 '5 Ncw York, Feb, 17.—Greco Ewing is only 24 years old, but she is tired of it, all The only reason that she did not die to -day is that the mails were de- livered promptly- in the neighborhood in which she has lived, She made all arrangements; tied her yy effects up in separate parcels, marked I ripen the parcels the mulles of persons to whom she wanted them to go, and then, sitting beside a table, she re- moved the tube from n reading lnnlp, placed the tube in her mouth ; and turned on the gas, She had just lensed into unamseious- iw.s when a policeman, followed by 10 frantic woman, broke in 'the door, An ambulance was called from Roosevelt hospital and Dr. Cartwell- resuscitated .Grace haring. Grace Ewing, whose occupation was typewriter sometimes and dreasme- krr when there was no other work. lad P room at No. 211 West 42nd street, Be- fore making preparations for her death she wrote a letter to -clay to Mrs. 3, 1'. Coombs of No. 308 West 15th street: \ in which she enclosed a dollar hill "It is my hast dollar she wrote, "and I want you to lore it. 33rfore, yol get it, though, I will have passed away. The struggle is too 'touch for • are." She dropped the letter #t}. aloe, Coombs in -a bpx about 11 o'clerele this morning and it was delivered ;to ltcs, Coombs about 1 o'oloel: in the• Mien' noon. lire, Cooties started deism to her friend's house, on'tho way nscet- iu}+ Policeman Hudson, whom she asked. to go with her. They arrived just in time.