The sun., 1891-01-22
END OF A MAYNARD LIFE.
LEO HARRINGTON SHOOTS HERSELF
THROUGH THE HEART

, 7HROUGH THE HEART
Her Inst Request That No Ono but Her
Mother and the Man Her Mocking BIRD
was Named After ne Permitted to SEQ
Her Body-Her Sorrow Was Her Own.
In the Hanford flats. opposite Grammar
School 4s. In West Twenty eighth street, a
tragedy was enacted some time between 8
o'clock on Tuesday night and 0 o'clock yester-
day morning. A wayward young woman, 20
years Of age. killed. herself and left her child. q
boy OF z who never knew father. q mother
less waif In the world. The Hanford fats is q
big double building at 1875 West Twenty eighth
street. 1t Is a comparatively now building.
standing among shabby surroundings, and
within 1t is cut UP into tiny. but comfortable
APARTMENTS OF three or four rooms.
Charles Caulneld is the janitor. He and his
wife 1.-Two In tho building. Mrs. Caulf1eld was
passing through the mnin hallway on the third
floor at 0 o'clock yesterday morning. On the
door OF Nat 10 she saw letter hanging by o
pin. Take this to my mother" was written
on II.
The tenant OF fiat 10 was known ms Mrs.
Coles. She had lived there about three years.
and Mrs. Caulfeld knew her we'll. Only the
night before Mrs. Coles had called her in and
showed her lot OF photographers proofs OF o
picture of herself and asked Mrs Caulfleld's
advice as to which she should select to have
her pictures printed from.
Enclosed In the hanging envelope was an
other addressed to Mrs Lucy N. Wiltshire,
1927 West Twenty-eRhth street. Mrs. Caulneld
sent It to that address, Mrs Wiltshire hurried
to the Hanford fluts. The key to her daugh-
ters apartments was In the letter she got.
With this she entered. Her daughter lay
dead upon her back upon . Turkish lounge on
hA 1nfe feNfk kha
fully dressed and her head rested upon snowy
pillow. She wore pretty house gown OF black
trimmed with gold. and tho skirt was Just
enough dsarranRed to show her silk. stock
inced ankles and her feet encased in high
hsssd d. sSlpns.. Ths waist Of her gown was
corset was stained With powder marks around
with relaxed fingers. and lie ieit hand md hung hung
s GS hSr hsS npe" srs :, es
eOd % bracoIes s With "a diamosds am a Wlsi and
:. Mrs !,s,, wiltshire tainted at the sight. Mrs
s sho led tho s Rs shss hes dsush
ter's rooms, and showed her the body. Then
she S showed her daYghttSrS,s t 3 letter. II road
wishes SSs nosPss aGsS
trust you viii please carry out One f. please
The seconds. please do mot 20 10 tho store OF
the pelson n whom my mocking bird is named
Tns xbom S Il wa Sny 9uEse; and
TaSo Gosrso and please Be- Kind TO to hm Hne send s
fhssS sS htpi hsve wishes ss
insb bts only g to salesmsn corner Twenty:
as they are tho last hope !Iey viii b. fui. HTs
ied nedv here ps,gs mother and father viii be
9Sqs Sssxh;s4 ssoHx' but to myself"
ss soon as tLis is ,seceived.f neon my things
leaye behind. Mamma. pray Tor me-thet,
Is o BY Sn1od e
one Bracelet on. DO not take IT. It of"iust h S' as
Il was written on a sheet Of fancy note paper
an"fasf oS shss. peres you receive
M oId b;skGs Ss Tss $Heh
There was no, hing else to tell the the story. Tho
S ehsed Ssss Gn
many letters and pictures. and Mrs. Wiltshire.
telling a1d perhaps Eaa she knew Of her
e,,ltd eopld shed no light upon the reason OF the
Her daughter had been wavward. she said.
ever since she was little girl She was born
IN Baltimore twenty years ago; Her renl
name was Ieocatia Harrington. Her father,
IN 5nea sates s ka1s Her @oshss ss0Rsa Rer
TThapSss The 9Seens Circus went to Baltimore when
Leocatia was 7 yea.s old. and she ran away
and Joined 1t. Georg! Lewis was the manager
ring. Her mother. spent all she had in an nn.
succeasful search for the child. Menptime Loo
drifteh with the circus TO Hayward's. in San
Francisco. She WAS lost for sx years. Her moth
or had moved then to Philadelphia. when one
day Loo camo home. She was thirteen and 80
her plnce In Tords Theatlo in Baltimore
Then she was doing song ami dance parts In
ADnuGhs nnd IN lnaly sho 9bned Zoo Zoo"
pany in Fort Worth. Texas. in 1883 and came
for awhile In the Casino and in one OF baiy's
companies. but SO far ns her mother was con-
cerned. she was lost again.
She found Leo again In this city BY m cans Of
an advertisement. She was living In o disor-
avenue, md had = baby sig months old. That
Is tho Georgia she refers to In hor letter. He
Is With a nurse. Mrs. Dayton. In Newark
Wayne county. New York.
The fnther Of her child she never saw again.
but M shs found protector Il the man he mock:
this city, Mrs Wiltshire said. and is now in
Europe. Perhaps Leo had been abandonad,
She had, besides the bracelet which she did
not want loosened from her left wrist pair
Of diamond earrings; gold watch and chain
scanty and she had no money. She viii be
buried In Woodlawn.
Merrymakers In Masks.