Evening journal., 1888-12-29


but Developments Prove She schemcd
Against Loving wife-After Causing
the Tragedy She Attempts suicide.
NEwnURG, Dec 29-Mamie Wood. tho
young woman who has figured prominently
IN the Schoonmaker double tragedy at Brook
lyn, whose attempted suicide on n steamer.
while en- route TO this city from New York,
was mentioned in yesterdays dispatches. viii
not die from the effects Of the poison She
took, which is harmless. Her true character
is rapidly coming TO light and it now APP
pears that she was the sole cause Of the awful
tragedy.
A package Of letters was found in the main
cabin of the boat upon which she reached
Newburg. They were addressed to Miss M.
Wood, care Of Mrs. Patterson Carlton
avenue, Brooklyn. On the opposite side from
tho inscription, in a different handwriting,
were tho words "Frsa II. Sehoonmaker,
Oxley, Giddings & Co., New York
The package contained upward Of a score OF
epistles intact, and two letters that were torn
IN pieces, portions only remaining One OF
these had evidently been written as a farewell
70 a Baltimore lover. The other was from a
sister TO Mamie. Two were from the Balti-
more lover who is evidently society man
in good standing, and chided her for her
coldness On the reverse side Of letter
written by her mother were several dates
and the words: my disobedience and your
foollshness H. and M Another letter.
signed Mamie Wood, claimed that much
that had been published about her was false,
and under Brooklyn date OF Dec. l2 was
note addressed 70 Henry ID. Schoonmaker,
pnra ~ Dwlav ft{d.Itf,fyo g. Tts,e Not., Varfy
and which made an engagement TO meet him
at the Brooklyn armory
There was further a letter. addressed to
Mrs James Patterson, No. 214 Carlton
pveauo, Brooklyn, or the public, in which the
young girl hints at suicide A letter to her
mother also says about the same thing, and
tells OF her relations with Sehoonmaker,
whom she says she will ''love dead or alive.n
The powder remaining in tho parcel was
taken TO a druggist, who pronounces 1t to be
insect powder in its natural color, which
greatly resembles Fuller's earth, having,
like 1t, no smell. IL would require a great
quantity TO cause death. The physicians say
that there is no possibility Of Mamie's dying
from the powder she had taken.
BROOKLYN, Dec 20. Police Captain Camp
bell Of the Second precint, is credited with
having stated that he found Minnie Ia q
resort raided in April, 1885, in Prince street,
kept by a Mrs Houston, who let rooms to
disreputable characters. Mrs Housting, Of
No s2 Carlton avenue, thinks that the cap
tain intended Ii 10 be understood that she
ran the house referred 70. She denied this
70 be a fact, and said.
"There Is a good deal more in this matter
than has been published. If called into court
l can tell something that may throw light on
| IT, but do not caro- 70 be mixed up unneces-
sarily with tho affair, which has been dis
graceful enough
"Mamie did not tell the truth about her
relations with Schoonmaker. She had been
corresponding with him a long time, and
they were frequently together sometimes
for more than day. just before she left
we learned all that was necessary to know
about her She knew that Schoonmaker
was married, and said, for all that, she was
going to have him
"She tried to get evidence against his wife
that would assist him in getting a divorce
She made an engagement 10 60 to Asbury
Park, and with him, and he did not threaten
her with pistol there, or anywhere else
She has lived at hotel in this city with
another young, whose first name is Harry.p