Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-05-10
POISONED HERSELF.
Suicide of a Beautiful Young Lady
From the New York World. May 81 ava


suicide of Beautiful Young Lady
From the New York World. May 81 iaa
A beautiful young lady, with pale,
oval face, dark eyes, and long black
curling hair, dressed in walking suit
of black silk, and apparently about
thirty-two years old, walked into the
office Of the Stevens House, corner OF
Broadway and Morris street, on Monday
morning about ten clock. She had ON
one arm small black leather satchel,
and carried in the other a couple Of
packages in paper, very light She
asked the clerk could she have room
for three nights--a dollar room. Seeing
that she was a stranger 10 the hotel, he
said that she would have to pay in ad.
vance, and that he had not dollar room
vacant but would give her a dollar and
a half room, and then change her TO q
dollar one. She said she would sooner
pay for the dollar and half room than
be changed, and did so, handing the
clerk So bill. She registered her name
as Mrs. K, Ee Harrington, of Long
Island, and was assigned room 46 on the
second floor, and when last seen by the
bell-boy on Monday night, chatted quite
gaily to him. Yesterday morning at
III O. clock, when the chambermaid and
bell-boy sent to clean up the room, they
found the door locked, and thinking she
had gone out, went down stairs to the
Office to get the key. 1t was not there,
and, thinking that the lady was asleep,
deferred their cleaning-up the room until
the afternoon. At $3.50 o'clock in the
evening, after knocking repeatedly and
getting no answer, they alarmed the pro-
prietor and the door was burst open. 1t
was then discovered that the unfortunate
lady had poisoned herself She lay un-
dressed in the bed, her face to the wall,
only covered by the counterpane, her
head resting on its right side on the pill
low and both her hands were before her
face. Between her hands was pint
phial containing chlsroform, covered
with yellow linen, the unsupported neck
of which was in her mouth, and the fore
finger of each hand was closely pressed
down on her nostrils She was quite
dead-with smile on her face.
soRRowFUL LETTER
On the table near her bedside was a
letter addressed to the proprietors of the
Stevens House, the stopper of the chic
reform bottle, and the snuff of burned
down candle The letter is as follows
MONDAY EVENING. May l.
of Stevens House:
DEAR SIRs-Forgive a heart-broken
woman anything. | shall never haunt
this room, so no one need be afraid TO
occupy it. Please help to have me for
gotten as soon as possible, and may God
bless you with prosperity. have no
relatives, no one; but have sent to
some friends, and / am quite sure they
will come for me tomorrow or Wednes-
day morning. X. K. HARRINGTON.
/ suppose coroner will have to be
Well, the facts are before
him-all he will ever obtain. / did not
procure the chloroform in this city or
State. No one is to blame but myself;
no soul on earth knows where l got it
but myself. / have taken my life be-
cause / have no ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
or friends to aid me. cannot live, so
die Forgive me as We hope to be for
given.
WHO is SHE?
The statement in the first part of her
etter, as to her having sent for friends,
IS contradicted in the latter part where
she says she has none. At any rate, her
dress, and especially her
hands, show her to have been refined,
delicate woman. Whether the cause of
her death was poverty or not, will, no
doubt, be learned to-day.