Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-09-19
PrAEL NAY JoyCE's DEATH.
EfIcf and Unhappy Career Of an nc
rrc.s vino Married 81 fifteen.

New York SUM-
A fsir-haired woman, whose slender
6rure wa neatly clad and whose wan
itce bore traces OF beauty, engagede
room on Sunday night last at Mount
Morris Hotel. One Hundred-aud-Thir-
Ie,h street and Third avenue. she
vas apparently about twenty-four or
.V,nt,-fye years old, and wrote her
raue on the register Pearl May
Ju,ce. she told the clerk that she
vac an actress, and on Monday
rl.lt, although very i'll, she Left the
hotel and played leading part IN VIII
son q Wrighimre's Pavilion Theatre,
IN east One Il undredth- and-Thirtle.
street. lust of Third avenue. The the
.tre is IN big tent, and the company
rlsys at cheap prices TO audiences tnEt
PACK he place nightly. She had played
leating PARTS for week under the name
ii Pearl HougtOn. Mr.. Wrightmlre en-
pseed her 3 week ago, when she arrived
from Rochester and stopped ct the Nor
tor House. On Tuesday the pretty
actress was 80 SICK that she couldn't
leave her room. and Dr.. Signer, young
physician who boards at the hotel, pre-
scribed for her. lie found her suffer
ire Of peritoni.is and terribly Frustrated
f0m overEOrk. She told the young
DOCTOR that she was only tgenty-One
Years old, and had been on the stage
for SIX years. Until she met reverses,
wear ago. she had played leading parts
IL iirsi-class travelling companies. she
had played Hazel ii one Of the Madi-
son.Square Theatre " Hazel krke y
companies, and had played the heroine
IN - Der AtOnement."
She was so much worse on Nednes-
day tina; Or. Signer called In Drs. Kuhn
and O'DOnnell. They prescribed for
her, and Or. Signer paid for the medi-
cines out Of his own pocket, Is the pa
tjent seemed TO be ii very Strengthened
circumstances. She died on Thursday
afternoon, ii spite Of the combined
Efforts OF he three doctors TO save her.
Her last act was the signing OF paper
II the case OF the will Of Daniel Tyler,
u Watkins Glen. She SAID that he
vas her uncle, and that she expected TO
Inherit something under his will.
After Dr.. Sicner had gone TO the
Actors' Fund headquarters anu ar
ranged 70 have the dead actress buried
nv tie ! und Association in Cypress
Hills to-day. and had sent death cef.
,lica.e 70 the Board Of Health, Police
Captain Hooker sought him and asked
about the case. The Captain sho wed
~ ANONYMOUS letter be had received,
asserting that the actress death
war the result Of malepracJIce, and that
here was conspiracy 10 get her share
u the TYLER cs-ste. The three doctors
told The Captain that death was the re-
ult Of natural causes, and then Cap
tain Hooker began 10 hunt for tue
actress relatives. Members Of Wright
mire's company said that Joyce was
he actresses real name, and that she
vas from Syracuse, and had married
man named joyce there when she was
fifteen years old.
Her husband mAletreated her, and she
eft him and went on the stage. twas
said that she had well-to-dO relatives in
Watkins Glen and in Syracuse and
Rochester. kilograms were sent 10
all three places last night, and Dr..
siener sent to Surrogate N. J. Sunder-
In. at Watkins, n. Y, the paper IL
the will case that Mrs. Joyce signed
on her death-bed. II is hoped that the
receipt Of the paper with the letter
telling Of her death NAV induce her
friends 10 come 90 TO this city.
Her effects a. :he hotel consist o. her
clothing her photogrspb-album, and
Little wallet containing four big old
ia shloned copper cents.