Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-08-26
Lena Stones Story.


HOW HER LOVER CHOKED HER INTO SUBMISSION AND
SHOT HER FOR LEAVING HIM.
From the New York Herald Gath
What novelistS call "a wealth Of golden harn
was brushed back from the grlish face OF Lena
Stone yesterday as she lay suffering from the MIS-
to wound inflicted by her lover, Joseph Rice, who
Shot her because she returned the ring he gave her
and Stunned him. The girls couch was in the par
lor OF Mrs. Mccarthy, her mothers friend and
neighbor. When Dr. Smith arrived Lena uncom-
plaintngly permitted him to extract the bullet
shouder-bade, and buried itself near a rib. Her
eyes filled with tears and her lips closed tightly
but she stood the ordeal bravely. Dr. Smith ban
daged up the wound and told Lena that she was
getting along nicely. She did not talk much about
Rice, and the mention OF his name Brought frown
81 hope he VIII be punished for what he has done,
for there Is no safety for me or my family while he
"She is very sweet and refined girl,r said DIR.
Smith, sand deserves great credit. She and Mrs.
McCarthys daughter were friends, and they edu-
perseverance they had raised themselves above
their surroundings. Rice is good-for-nothn Eel
low. While Lena was mere child, OF course, she
tolerated him, but as she developed into woman
hood her good sense and fine perception told her
that her boyiSh lover was not an associate She
should encourage. She had been trying TO avoid
him for over two years. More than once, when she
had kept away from him lately. he had Quarreled
with her, and even seized her by the throat ana
choked her. In this brutal way he cowed Lena and
frightened her into occasionally seeing him, al
though she began TO hate as well as fear him. Like
a noble little woman she worked for her living and
was obedient TO her parents AT last Lena told
her parents about the choking, and family coun-
Gil was held. Rice had become jealous. and had
demanded the return OF his letters and ring. Her
father and mother told her to give back the letters
and ring Lena sent them TO Rice through Mrs.
Mccarthy. Just after that Rice bought two pis-
tolls One day he sat In his mothers house and
threatened TO commit suicide because Lena had
given him up. Mrs Rice became alarmed and ran
Rice sat. He had pistol in each hand, and fired
one over each shoulder, pretending to be trying to
commit suicide. The girl laughed at him and ran
down stairs. Since then he has evidently deter
mined to shoot her. She went to MI. Crouch, a
neighbOr, and told him She feared Rice. Mr.
Crouch sent Lena to the country with his wife for
a month. She had Just got back Thursday
when Rice shot her. Poor Lena. That is the VIC
lent ending OF what once, in her eyes, appeared TO
be the golden romance OF her life."
DRAMATIC FRENCH SUICrDE-Recently, in Paris
the servant OF Nine. Marlier Durand, widow lady
living in the Place de la Madeleine, was horrified
upon entering her mistress room TO ind the latter
stretched upon her bed, dressed in white, with a
crucfix on her breast and rosary in her hand APP
parently dying. The bed had been arranged Ike a
catafalque, and tapers were burning around It.
The alarmed servant summoned assistance but ft
was too late. Nine. Durand had taken large dose
OF audanum, and expired ten minutes after the ar
rival Of q doctor. The commissary OF police found
upon the table OF the apartment letter addressed
to him, which stated that the deceased had been
ruined by gambling and bourSe speculation. She
had lost 7O0. 600 francS-an her fortune.