New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-05-30
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
. u1cH.BoRN wOMAN's DESPAIR.

.,,r.n OF RARoN COMMITS SUICIDE BY
1SuAIING GAs-sToRY OF HER LIFE.
se-vants in the Summit Hotel. at Ganas orn anu
the Rowery at an early hour ON The second
ls1nS"or.d that gas was escaping on .nH I'd
Gisco'eTIg%u a lest was traced TO room wnicI nia
hoor dnrnn;ed since Saturday evening ny vsn a
German woman of middle age W. %no door Of the
ner na s Locked on the inside, porter p 9 ~
doo' Cas- which had been allowed 10 ioT i i ,ba
open burner filed t W TUO partly dressed Her
Sonds we're folded and her features woio AM;
"a sYpression Evidently she had conl lt Dc
1u Stnns of PAPER had been fastened WIN nuci-
cue on the cracks of the door and shawl had DeeH
fastened over the window 10 9a pe'0 ~
Ventilation Packages of letters ad p n,iu TO
tS honsekeep.r of the hotel and to the KEY. julius
w Gsycr of No rs Second-st and package con
ta;nIne iewelry of small value lay on a lspie III
the room. Brief notes written by dne he Ieliyered
also were found Her request was tnat Ky ~
should be her sister Mrs Linhe ,to oio
wife of a pastor living ut Schloss H0neneck, S,ol
hnro SaTony. A purse IN Mrs WagneTs dress
pocset contained only twenty-five cents. cents. OH
Sunday aud Monday Mrs wagner h o1nt toId the
the hotel had been peculiar. She nad iolu .no
bonsekeeper that she the daughter OF GERMAN
Baron and that a runaway marriage cary III i,ie
had estranged her from her relatives iel
and had moved in good society kev; MI. Geyei
who was summoned TO the hotel cohhrineu
what Mrs Wagner had said about herself 49,.
The The woman was Maria Francesca Amanda Eliza
Wagner aud her maiden name was Won Mauscn nv
She was born in Berlin on November 20 5oio
Princess of the Prussian Court was her godmother;
Baron Won Mauschwitz, her father, i hor
her well educated and encourage net
TO learn useful ocenpa di'n - ,rieJ Mr.
the wishes of her parents IN ST. she ~
Woaner n vonnp musician, who died five months
after the wedding. child which was porn = r lev
mon hs afterward lived only three months. men
tpn' Von Mauschwiz met with business re-
verses and lost nearly all OF his properly. ~ ne
dled in 1875, leaving us fanny neanly a"ay hi
son of the Baron had gone to America 10 seek nis
fortune and all trace of HIN had peeh loSt
vonuorr daughter had been married TO the pastor AZ
Schloss Hoheneck, who was too poor 10 give W
ncr took a position nurse IN "a hospltal, having
obtained diploma 10 practise midwifery e.
In 1881 Mrs Wagner determined 10 search I0r
her hrother I'D this country, but 1t was soon maze
pain that she could not find hun. she tried unsuc-
cessfuly to establish practice as nliuwp9 To- q
short lime she was a nurse in the German Hospital,
and then she obtained position as nurse III PR,
yatc family. He health gave way ana Ior s9yelal
months she was patient i'll the Homeopathic losp,-
taI ON ards Island aud at the Mount SINAI hospital
The Rev Mr. Geyer, who is pastor or the herman
Reformed Church in iOuston-st, was called 10 tne
hospital to pray with her, and she told him the sa
Abont ak weeks ago, when Mrs. Wagner was able
TO leave the hospital, she was invited 10 spent le
weeks In the pastor house. MIS-. Wasnel
the IN vtatlon she was restless ana despon1cn.
While in the hospital she had been gwen morphine
in large quantities. and she naa acq nhie IL
She fought with despalring energy. Sevelal tlneS
she spoke of suicide the only cure Tor her
MIR Ccyer procured a SITUATION 1or ner III JvrsoS
Citv tbrce weeks ago Ou triday last, Mrs. Was-
ner went to see Mr. Geyer and SAID she had hope
of going TO Europe nurse in the family OF MIS- L
upper part of the city. She had asked asked
Mrs. Jacoby to inquire of Mr. Geyer about
her. Three times on Saturday Mrs. wagner
went to MIR Geyer's house, only to learn that MIS-,
.Jacoby had not made any inquiry there. She was
not seen again by the pastor IL Is bel yea by MR.
Geyer that when Mrs. Wagner vent TO tue SUNNI
Hotei On saturday evening she had given up hope
of going to Europe aud had determined TO Kill her
self. The body OF Mrs. Wagner will he buried III
the Lutheran Cemetery Tomorrow AT MI "eSei