Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-10
DETERMINED TO DIE.
Mrs. Lewis Tries for the Fourth Time
to Commit Suicide.
WANTED TO LEAP FROM A WINDOW.
The Correspondent in the Divorce Case Has
Gone From the City.
HOW SHE HOODWINKED HER HUSBAND

Mrs. Mary Lewis, the story of whose at
| tempts at suicide was told in The DIS
PATCH, made another effort to end her life
yesterday morning. This time she aban-
doned her favorite method of chloroform
and tried leap from third-story window
of the st. Charles Hotel. She had been
hvsterical all night, and was quite i'll from
exhaustion when her husband and Detective
Heiner entered the room about 9 o'clock.
They came to inform her that at $50 pro-
ceedings would be entered in court to OBJ
tain possession of her 3-year-old child.
She listened to their statement and then
turned her head away as if she did not
desire to see them any more. As she lay
there in bed and heard of the effort to take
the child away from her she had ceased
weeping and pallor spread over her pretty
face. The two men turned to leave the
room. The nurse was not near the bed at
the time.
Determined on Death.
Suddenly Mrs. Lewis leaped from the
bed, threw up window and sprung out on
a narrow balcony. She was in the act of
leaping over the low railing when the de-
tective, who had turned Just in time to see
the movement, jumped through the window
and caught her. A moment later and she
would have been dead on the pavement 40
feet below She was carried back into the
room helpless. All the rest of the day she
remained passive and made no further ef-
forts at suicide.
George Umstead, the hotel clerk who is
named as correspondent in the Lewis case,
is no longer at the Seventh Avenue. AL
fred Kan,, former clerk at the Central,
has taken his place. 1t is surmised that
Umstead has quit the town, for he could not
be found yesterday by the officers who had
a capias to serve on him. The young man
has lots of friends in the city, and they de-
nounce Detective Heiner's methods. Those
who know Umstead feel that he is not much
of a sinner, but only indiscreet. His
friends claim he had no money, and deny
the stori es that he tried to buy Heiner off
Mrs. Sproull, the mother of Mrs. Lewis,
was expected to arrive from Cincinnati last
evening. Her daughter is at the St. Charles,
and ifthe mother came IN she did not stop
at this hotel. Detective Heiner said that
she had not arrived.
What Conductor Saw.
On the other hand Pullman conductor
at the depot claims he saw Heiner
and Attorney Barton sat the station, and
that they met Mrs. Sproull at the train.
Mrs. Lewis is out of danger and was resting
easy last evening.
The capias for Umstead's arrest was issued
on a precipe filed by Attorney Barton,
counsel for the aggrieved husband, for S1O,-
600 damages for the alienation of his wife's
affections The Court will this morning
hear Lewis petition for writ to secure
possession of his child
More details are coming to light concern
ing the actions of the dashing young WIFE
A certain cab driver has reason to know her
pretty well, having at numerous times had
occasion to drive her about with her gentle
men friends. Such proceedings were car
ried on even when the husband was at home
Several times the cab driver has gone to
Lewis at his home to tell him his wife was
i'll over in Pittsburg. and could not be home.
At the same time Mrs. Lewis and one of her
numerous friends would be waiting in a cab
a block or two away. Lewis always took
these stories in good faith.
Considerable talk has resulted from the
fact that Umstead is the only one of Mrs.
Lewis admirers against whom action has
been taken. 1t is asserted that we'll
known civil engineer and the son of
prominent manufacturer were more constant
in their attentions than Umstead, but thev
are singularly relieved from the unpleasant
ness of an explanation.