New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-03-13
MYSTERY ABOUT HER SUICIDE.
A YOUNG WOMAN SHOOTS HERSELF.
FOUND DEAD IN ROOM AT THE COLEMAN
HOUsE-NO CLEws TO HER IDENTITY.

FOUND DEAD IN a ROOM AT THE COLEMAN
HOUsE-NO CLEws TO HER IDENTITY.
The police of the Nineteenth Precinct are just
now trying to establish the identity Of the young,
handsome and richly-drcs>el woman who some
time Saturday night sent ballet into her heart
IN a room Of the Coleman House. At pres"nt her
name, and all that apperiaincd to her, remains
mystery 1t was Just after eleven o'clock on
Saturday night when II. q. Green the clerk Of
the Coleman House, while on duty at the desk.
was approached by a woman, young, fair and
slenderly built whose grace Of manner gave rvi-
dcnce of refinement. Her dress, though plain,
was costly, and marked by a simple elegance and
good taste; her bearing, slightly Uervous
and constrained at first, became easy ani
natural as her first question was answered ::
and although evidently unused TO the place
and the surroundings. she spoke. looked and
acted with the sclf-pcsscssion which only comes
with good breeding. Shc wanted room, and
No. 201. on the second floor, fronting On Twenty
seventh ST., was assigned 10 her.
Green noticed that she carried no sltche bn,
that is not an uncommon thins with women who
stay at the Coleman House Asked 90 sgn the
register. she wrotc in a bold masculine hand Mrs.
+. Carter, st. Louis" Then she went to her
room, and when she passed into the room she, 10
all purposes, passed ont of the world. for no
human creature saw her alive after her room
door had closed. As the morning wore on and
noon approached, the chdmbermaid aSsgnc 70 thr
floor. having cleaned all the other rooms tried 70
get into No. 2Ol. But the door was lpckcl. AMI
no answer came to her repeated knocks. When
4 o'clock came she went 10 the proprietor Of the
hotel. H. II. Pearson and told him OF hcr
difficulty.
Mr.. Pearson went to the room. and after
failing TO get reply 10 his cries. called Emil H.
Lott. the hall boy Under his directions Lott
went into Room 2O3. climbed through the open
window out TO the firc-csoapc. and by this means
reached No. FOL Opening the window he
entered the room. The woman who had registered
as Mrs. F. Custer" lay on the floor, in front of
the mirror dead.
Her golden hair looscncd by her fall. hung
over her nc,k and shoulders; her large blue eyes
were wide open and staring; OH the chair by her
side lay her brown silk travelling dress. her mun
coat and jacket. all of rich scaskin; the
cd she had thrown her black silk csr-
set. On her left breast and Just
over her heart could bc seen a tiny blac, spot
which told where the bullet had struck her; in
her stfTced fingers was thirty-two calibcr
Smith 4 Wcsson revolver. At her right hand
was an empty bottle, which had held morphine. and
by the side of the bottle box half-iill"d
with morphine pills An umbrella with silver
handle unmarked stood in "A corner. but IN no
part Of the room or her body could tr
found ANYTHING which would afford the slightest
ccw TO her identity.
Two rings and three diamond scarf pin--onc Of
them sword rd-shapcd-'ogc'her with SIS 80 fonni
in hcr pockets, showed that poverty al east, had
no,hin1 10 do with her death. The bed
touched except for slight depression AZ IN" outer
edge showing that she had sat there Will" IN Tie
oc, of removing her dress Ih" body was cold,
and II was evidcst that the woman had lost
no time in action after the room door had closed
behind her. In all probability She had fired Tie
shot half an hour after cnter'rE enc room WV"
Che vas ana WHY NJ twenty-five years oi ace, ia"
crew tired of life and liics troubles is problem
vet 10 De solved.