Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-12-02
MARRIED A THIEF,
And i'm Her Desperation After the Diseo'-
cry She Shoots Herself.

eryShe Shoots Herself.
NEW YORK. December IA young
well-dressed and beautiful woman
stepped YEARLY from the train al Ine
l3sth street station of The suburban FL
evated road, few moments before SIN
o'clock this evening. She stepped near
the edge Of the platform just as traln
approached, and made movement Us II
She intended TO throw herself under the
iron wheels. The guard warned
her that it was dangerous TO stand
so near the passing engine. She
Hooked sharply at him, but did not say
ANYTHING, and moved away as II she ala
not care TO continue the conversation.
She went 10 the end of the platform,
but kept away from the track, and the
puard did not notice her particularly,
as there was rush of passengers. a
train stopped at the station ana the pas
sengers got on and off, and no one no.
ticed the little woman at the END OF the
platform in the dark shadow. Inc
train went swiftly away, and mingled
with the clatter of the wheels there
was a sharp report of pistol.
Passengers picked her up where she
had fallen and carried her into the
waiting room. There was blood on her
clothing, which came from wound IN
her breast. Her eyes were closed, her
breath came in short, convulsive gasps,
with an occasional feeble moan, and all
who saw her thought she was dying. A
hurry call was sent for an ambulance,
and one speedily came from the Harlem
Hospital. The ambulance surgeon
dressed the wound temporarily, and the
woman was carried TO the ambulance
aid driven rapidly TO the hospital. The
pistol with which she had shot her
self she had thrown away, and II
was found on the railroad ties. III
was a Short-barreled, ugly weapon OF
3s-calibre. At the hospital she was
taken into the reception room and gent
/ " shaken to arouse her. She opened
her ewes and asked the house surgeon:
"Am | going to die, Doctor The
physician replied that there was only a
small chance of her recovery. and she
sank back upon her couch with look
of intense satisfaction. She was car
ried on I stretcher to one OF the wards
and put into a cot. She begged the
nurse to let her die, and said that she
was tired of life, and had nothing IN
the world to live for. She talked in
coherently about some great wrongs
that had been done To her.
Tossing reStleSSly upon cot in an
adjoining room was a young man VINO
was suffering from a broken rib and an
abSceSS in his right side. He heard the
commotion rs the new patient was car
ried into the ward. and voice fell upon
his ear that caused him to start. and
had not nurse caught hold of him he
would have jumped from the cot. In
the stiffness of the hospital the voice of
the new patient could be plainly heard,
and he said eXcitedly to the nurse,
'Who is that woman and what is the
matter with her?'
The nurse replied that ii was Il young
girl who had tried to kill herself. His
face turned deadly pale. and he fell back
in faint.
As mis- senses returned the voice in the
next room cried piteously: "Oh, Char
ley, Charley. why did you deceive me?'
The patient jumped as if he had been
shot, threw up his hands wildly and en-
claimed with bitter anguish: MY God,
it is my wife" He tried to go TO her,
but was restrained by the nurse. He
told the truth. The woman was his
wife, Martha LoSee. whom he had mar
ried only four months ago. Losee
was admitted to the Harlem Hospital
on November 10. He received his
injury in 4 struggle with a policeman,
| LoSee has known his wife ever since she
was a little girl, and they were neigh
bOrs, and grew up together. For three
years LoSee tried TO get the girls
mother to consent to his marrying her
daughter. and they were married with
out her knowledge last July. The girl
was a Miss Craw, and knew nothing
about LOsee's business or character,
except what she learned from him. lie
concealed the fact that he had been a
thief all his life, aud had only been out
of Auburn Penitentiary 4 short
time when he married her. Losee
was. sent to Auburn for
four years for passing Il forged
check. Mrs. Losee had heard stories
about her husbands dishonesty, but he
ALWAYS denied them to her, and she be-
lieved him. On Saturday she received
positive evidence that he was thief,
and she told her mother that she did
not care to live any longer. She said
Just before going to sleep last night al
the hospitals: Il tried to kill myself
because could not live with forger.
The probabilities are that the girl will
die. Her husband is frantic with grief
and repentance, and Swears that if she
lives he will make her the wife of an
honest man.