New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-01-20
WOMAN COMMITS SUICIDE.
MRS. HARRIS DIES At BELLEVUE.
SHE WAS FOUND WOUNDED IN THE IolLLi'
ROOM OF THE HOTEL MARLBoRoUGH-uER
roML, WAC ppOOLIY\
HOME WAS IN BROOKLYN.

HOME WAS IL BROOKLYN.
Whctbcr thc vounr and handsome wife OF Charles
Harris died from sclf-infi, led stab wounds, rom
Ea.cotic poisoning. the Bellevue Hospital dCclorS
were apparently unable TO determine "st
evening That she stabbed herself last night In the
toilet room OF the Marlborough Hotel Is, however,
certain. The motive which led her TO take her HE Is
like the exact cause Of her death. hidden IN DOUBT
Early In the evening Il gracefully built. beautiful
brunette ood Thirty ,iNthsi. and broadway, out
side the cafe Of the Marlborough Hotel. lew
minute, later by the dooraan she entered the
reception rom and, with the air of one familiar with
the pace, walked through the hotel hall and turned
INTO the wOmens par!c". AT that moment IN" IO)l
wa, empty. Two minutes later Miss Lillian Matthews,
the stenogmpher attached to the hotel went INTO
the parlor. The next moment she ran ont
10 the Office desk, her face white with terror
:" In the tOct.rOom." she cried "a woman Is dying
j. C. Hand, the night manager OF the hotel hurried
into the toilet room which Is at the right OK the
parOr entrance. and there, on her sde with Her
head under the wa,hbowl and her face buried in
her tands lay woman Apparently she was I'M
conscious Yet when Mr.. Hand touched her on
IT," shoulder She cpenod her aud murmurei hinty
" send 10 hu,band-Clarcs iarris-56 West Broadway.
Iy her side ay long French table knife. The knife
had a long blade, probably six and hall Inches. Inc
woman breitied heavily, and TO Mr.. Hand seemed TO
be under the influence Of drug. lie called Mlss fhZa
Uauion the housekeeper and going to the Olce sent
m, sage to DR.. J. ". Tutc, OF No. - West Forty
iftL-,t
The woman is not druggcd she has stabbed her.
SELF" said Miss IIanon. coming toward Mr.. Hand. as
he went back to the parlor. Then Mr.. Hand decided
to call I'm the police, and as DR.. Tuttle ar
rived drove TO the Nineteenth Precinct Police station
and returned TO the hotel with Detective Otonnor.
| In the meantime DIR. Pierce. ambulance surgeon
from Bellevue Hospital, had arrived. The woman
corsets opened and the left breast Just above
the apex Of the heart the doctor found two wounds
both apparently SUPERFICIAL and both apparently III
| nictcd with the knife by her side.
"Why did you do this ~ said OConnor as he bent
over her
| Il have nothing to say gaSped the woman. BE
fore I cut myself ! had swallowed rat poison. My
name Is Mrs. Charles Harris. / was born In tleve-
land, Ohio. Ny husband IS at NO. 80 West Broad
way Then, supported by the detectives arn she
asked for a pencil, and. excrtng all her strength,
| wrote: "Chailes Harris, 40. 81 West Broadway.
Dr. Tcc noticed that on both her wrists were several
! irregular marks, or dents, OF BLUSH
TINT and looking though they might
have been made by the stnbbng Of fork or otEer
sharp instrument, Evidently the woman had tried
! to open a vein in her and had failed In spite
Of her assertion that she had taken paris green She
| showed no signs Of poisoning.
! Di,crcGiting her tory, the doctors dressed her
wounds, and she taken to Bellevue Hospital
when carried in,o the reccptionroom at BELLEVUE ana
asked to give her address she murmured " no 40
/ Second st., BrOOkvn.' lhrNr We're her iast "oIun'
Almost immediately afterwards she sank into uhcOll-
scouenesS and moment later died
Dr. Finders probc;i the wounds ana Is sati,i'd ua'
neither could have caused the woman's death. Inc
doctor saw only possible symptom of narcotic
| poi>onng. This In the cyanic INT vi ur
womans skin In Mrs. llarriss pockets were Iouha ,
n card bearing the inscription Mrs. Charles larris'
| No u Walnniord Court. Cleveland. ohlo-Ihurs-
dnys" and an embroidered purse with a small amount
q. -..
! ill doubts us to the identity OF the woman Were
SET at rest by Ssr husband late Inst nigh Ills nih,
IS Charlie, Harris. and up Il a year ago ne WIS !.
travelling salesman for ~ H. sanger an iron"ah| sh
drlIer or Cleveland, O. Twelve months ago tic
couplc came To New York and here Mr.. Harf1s, es
tablIgaed Il branch Of the house In tue LaWrense
Du,ldinr No ~ West Broadway. Lately. Mrs Harris
Ind been staying with some relatives at No. 4o'
second At Brooklyn. Yesterday she lett TIE houS'
IN yiSit n relative In East Eighty .fourth-st