The evening world., 1894-08-08
HER IDENTITY KNOWN.
Mapleton's Mysterious Suicide
Was Margaret Earning.
Positively Identified by Her Sister.
ir-law This Morning.
She Had Lived at 8 Hanson Place,
Brooklyn, Although 1t 10 Denied.

The mysterious young woman whose
unclaimed body has been lying at the
Brooklyn Morgue since Sunday after
noon was identified this morning as
Margaret Earning. twenty-six years old
of Hanson place, Brooklyn.
The body was identified by the young
woman's sister-in-law. Mrs. Helena
Earning. of SO North Elliott place,
Brooklyn.
The young woman committed suicide
at Mapleton Sunday afternoon. She had
formerly been employed in Aliens rope
walk in South Brooklyn. She was un.
married
Shortly after the suicides sister-in-law
had called at the Morgue, an Evening
World" reporter" visited her home at
North Elliott place. Mrs. Earning
was not in. The reporter talked with
her children, and learned that the
mother had received an anonymous let
ter this morning containing a newspaper
clipping about the suicide.
The letter read:
The Enclosed slip, l thought, relates
to your sister Maggie. / leave 1t to You
to attend to the matter. shall do moth
Ing. further In the matter"
Mrs. Barring, knew something was
wrong. and visited the Morgue. where
she Identified the unclaimed body be-
yond all doubt. as that Of her husbands
sister.
The children said that the suicide had
lived on Hanson place, two doors from
the NJ. II Church and directly opposite
the Thirteenth Regiment Armory.
This house Is number 3, When the
reporter called there, 1t was denied that
the Earning woman had ever lived
there.
The neighbors, however, said that she
did live there. and also gave the names
OF men who had called there at that
house.
There are a number of girls in the
house, and Miss Earning had roomed
The people fiving at No. 3 were in
toned about the suicide. Several times
the woman to whom the reporter was
talking admitted that Miss Earning had
lived there, but quickly corrected her
self.
The people living in the vicinity of
No; have been very much interested
In the case.
They said Miss Earnings most fire.
tallies with that of the man who called
at the Morgue Monday.
Two Central Office detectives have
been detailed on the case to obtain all
the information possible and learn the
cause that prompted the young woman
to commit suicide.
,,Nneh MIs. bd,HihS cdileu AT the
Morgue this morning she told Keeper
Mcclure that her sister-in-lsw lad been
very uncommunicative for about a year,
and seemed to be worried.
She had lived with her brother for
while. but afterwards went to live in
the Hanson place house. About a year
aEo the young woman had to undergo a
dificult operation In a New York hospi-
tai. and she had not been well since.
For time she had been employed as
nurse by Mrs. James b. Bouck, wife
OF the President of the Brooklyn Board
Of Education.
Later she was employed in the rope
walk.
Mrs. Cameron, the woman who lives
at Hanson place, Brooklyn, through
her brother-in-law. gave out the follow
Ing statement this afternoon
don't know her first name. came
to me to engage a furnished room.
She brought a letter of recommended
ton from a former landlady. I as
signed her to a room, which she &C.
Gupied until last Sunday, when she
IF she committed suicide / did not
know 1t. l knew nothing of the sui
eide until l read of 1t In the news
papers.
~ suppose it is her body at the
Morgue.
During the time the young woman
was at my house, she conducted, herself
her living. She had few callers.
She had no love affair that ! know
of, and | am ignorant of any cause
which might have driven her to sui
eide"
Mrs Cameron is Frustrated by the
shock of learning of Miss Earnings
death and two physicians were in at
tendance on her this afternoon.