New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-05-24
TIE SUICIDE AT TAE GRAND UNION
THE BODY not IDENTIFIED-A MYSTERIOUS CALLER
AT TIE MORGuR

AT TIIE MoRGUE.
A tall woman, with beautiful face, about
thirty years old, dressed in black suit OF expensive
material and carrying bunch OF pansies in her hand,
walked into the Morgue yesterday afternoon and said 10
Keeper White in trembling voice
Can tho body of Miss Jones who shot herself ut
the Grand Union Hotel :"
eyes," said tho keeper and he led her int the room
where the body lay AS she approached the box she
trembed violently and appeared II she was about 10
faint. She started TO go back and then evidently
forced herself to go One OF tho attendants
threw back the oil cloth cover that hid the young
woman's face from view. As he did the tall woman
exclaimed in agOnized voice: My God!' anu
turned away. She stood for few moments Win ner
back to the corpse and then having recovered her self
possession turned and looked upon the calm beautiful
face OF the dead woman Tears GENE to her eyes ana
rolled down her cheeks but she did not say word.
something from her pocket, which she kept hidden
handkerchief, and looked from 1t to the face OF
the girl. She remained at least ten minutes rs
If lost in thou ght. Then she turned around
and hcaying a heavy sigh, walked away Win
slow step. The bunch Of pansics was not
with her; it was found by the dead woman.
The strangers actions awakened suspicion In the
minds OF those who her. but she denied having any
knowledge of the who called herself Miss Jones'
After leaving the Morguc she went TO the elevated
railraod station at Twentythrd-st and took train
uptown. She positively refused to tell her where
she came from or why she went to the Morgne
She said however, that 1t not curiosity that promp-
ted her and that she might might not have an inter-
In the girl that was her and tho business OF no
ones else When asked II the girls name was Bedient
che said perhaps and then she relapsed into silence
She got Oft the train at FOrtysecOnd-st and walked
from fhrdavc To the Grand Central Depot where sue
bought ticket for Troy She had several other Iaii
road tickets In her hand, and she sat down
on seat in the waiing-room and exam
ned them carefully when The gateman called out ine
of the stations for which the next train was bound
she passed quickly through the gate to the ain All the
stations called this sidc of Troy and the train then
The body OF the who shot herself through the
heart lay upon "A marble slab when Coroner MeSselncr
entered the Morgue carrying with him case OF SURF
cal instruments. The body was perfectly formed Inc
we're monlde s in anu the same delicate way
but were dsgured by the nails having been bitten
through the center Of tho heart and lodged IN
large cOts OF blood I'm and around the heart and lungs
aud the cavity ~ the chest filed with blood There
had been no external hcmOrrhagc. There wcro inllca
lions mat the woman might nave heen latty as'i,n'
but nothing found To Indicate the cause OF her suicide
Ice box, where 10 wall Ice kept until Tuesday ana LONGER
Il circumstances warrant the possibility OF an dentnca
ton. Hundreds OF people looked at IL during the day
The which was found on her collar aud nand OF
her skirt Is n. C. Bedcnt The X looks something IKE
n. Mr.. Garrison, tie manager Of the Grand Inlsn
Hotel, said II the name OF collar manufacturer
ana was probably stamped on as trade mark. u ~
pears however To have bccg written with ink. and the
letters small ard lightly written as II 10y woman
About o'clock went 10 the Morguc with telc-
gram from Scranton. Penn, which gave description
81 a young missing from that place. which
bore a close resemblance To- that Of the unknown
dead He refused to give his or that OF
the missing person. said that would call
to-day who was acquainted with the Scranton woman
and would verify the description. All he would sly
WAS that he thought % tho same person.
Later tall heavily lelTd,d man called with "A clc
graphed description from Tlrrytnwn uf a woman who
had been missing Tor three weeks. She married aud
lived with who she aitcrwi rd found had another
wife living. When tho husband found that
his second wife had discovered his bigamous
relation hc deserted her and TO This city Wife
No. . LETT hrr home with the ayOwcd purpose
OF seeking ana killing the man who had de
ceiyed her. She brought with her revolver ~
the same make that which the suicide Hscd
and has not since been heard from. Tie dead woman
rcsembcd The description OF the deceived wife, but min
the OF the dispatch positive rs To her idcn
tity hc would not make her name public.
guest ut the Grand Union Hotel said
last evening the dead woman was
probably the missing daughter Of r Haynes wcll-to-
do merchant living 40 bridgeport who was oi an ccccu
disposition AID tft her home about week FOR
fauccd slight aud has not since been heard
She had her hair cut short before leaving home
and took considerable money with her. some Of her
relatives expected 10 here To look at the body
AT tho MOrEue
LAoNs, y. y, May - (SIc-irh.-The Miss Jones who
committed Suicide ut the Grand Uuinu Hotel answers Ia
tho description Of stranger who arrived IN this city
"Wednesday she called 10 tho hardware store OF Im-
merlin Bros and purchased small revolver called
Fashion" She left here IA" Atlantic express going
cast at $40. She Is undoubtedly tho same person.