The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-02-17
HER LAST DRINK OF ETHER.
END OF FORMER SOPRANO IN
The DUFF COMPANY CHORUS.
Mianie JeFreys Sent District Messenger
to the Dsueuisfa for the Drug and Got
1t-Probably Not . Suicide.

Misnie JeFreys Sent District Messenger
to the Dsueuiafa for the Drug and Got
1t-Probsbiy Not = Suicide.
Tho two fats on the second floor Of the
apartment house at 28S West Thirty. ninth
street have hall in common. and the parti-
ton wall Is thin. Nearly everything said or
done in one nat can be heard in the other.
In the easterly nat there lived until about 10
o'clock Monday night former member OF the
Duff Comic Opera company. She was Mrs.
Henry Nichols. and. whilo sho had legal
right to this name. the young man who figured
as her husband was not Henry Nichols. That
name belonged to a rnnn whom Mrs. Nichols
had deserted after bearing him several chill
dren. whom she also left behind. Her stnGe
name was Minnie Jefrreys.
According to the story which Mrs. Josephine
Dale. the occupant Of the other fiat. told to Po-
lico Capt. Cross yesterday Mrs Nichols was
heard through the thin partition to send a
district messenger to buy something for her
on Monday afternoon. What no was to buy
did not appear. but when he returned he was
heard to say:
II had hard time getting It The man
made me sign my name before he would give
1t to me-"
"rll tear the label OF and then no one will
know what 1t is or where It came FROM" Mira
Nichols said.
Not long afterward woman called to see
Mrs Nicholas fiat. which was to let. the occu.
pant intending to vacate IL II che could sublet
It, The woman stayed 80 long thnt Mrs.
Nichols said: you must excuse me. I've got
to Dress" and in that way got hor to go.
Mrs. Dale went out shortly afterward. and
when she returned. about 6 o'clock. abe heard
& NGhos b sss SanIrs aha
a keua In Ia Mira nhnlG 20
made to her repeated knocks at the different
Mrs. Nichols's flat. The doors were locked.
She got out on the tor OF the porch oyer the
n the TndsT 81 her Tns1%
found MIS-. SIchoIs stretched on her bed Vi, IN:
wrapped in what seemed to be Intended for a
Th th was an %bsqa
bnle r i%e 70 o. mske Mrs Nichols swa
low Coffee and iang IN the nsta attempt sbs
turned with him Mrs. Nichols was dead. AZ
and made no report Q: the matter to the police.
sa IL f hn 70
being commerciaI traveller: he apIeared at
ths Dat at 10 Gc!ock Yesterday stds mornins and
parently without looking at tho dead body OF
the suicide. About five hours afterward he
s so ser syns Henry s'
Nichols. said that his wife. Minnie. was, dead.
and that e pe tse she had
not known what became OF him when he left
Shs T. the
half full Of ether. The label was partly torn
but the red soaS 81 thu s H.
the station and told to Capt. Cross what is
tho denth. He has found that a disktrict
Wat hs err nn Was he could not learn
local otfice. for such INQUIRIES are answered
sHy Ct Ea ma key tho
sss who sold ether to messenger boy give
and from Yn9 @ h
.Ss taat the rhs d9es
she un ss took it. no says. as an anti:
dotc to the effects Of alcohol. Just as she used
to send Tor. him to give her q hynodermic in.
spirits and smoked cigarettes in his, presence
sns. wa Willie neioousy 90q here
elsewhere. used to send presents OF value to
ss ID and Tsh BG TeG Ss in " SiFs
nat RGnW %ha last TeeS hs sa
Tanbury. Conn. He and Mrs. Nichols quar-
was living in flat at Eighth ayonuc and For
tieth street. and he left her. She went to Chi
cago. and. when on her return she rented O. fiat
Mrs. Nichols had soprano voice once. and
was also pianist. She was a chorus girl in
and she played In 1.-The Queens Mate" She
was handsome woman o. the brunette type.
With perfectly pHt skp and she had ns
about three years ago. On the strength OF her
former theatrical connection. Mrs. Nichols APP
piled for tickets at the Casino. habit she had.
| a. recently Is Q week ago.