The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-09-21
SANG MERELY
WHILE DYING.
With a Bullet In His Head
Actor Ripley Serenaded
His Fellow Lodgers.
SHOT HIMSELF HOURS BEFORE
A Physician Had Looked at His
Wound and Pronounced 1t
q Trivial One,
TURNED IN THE STREET TO DIE.
Taken in Charge by a Woman Friend
and Finally Sent to Belle
vue Hospital.
TURNED IN THE STREET TO DIE.

pass singer IN the chorus or Della
Fox's Little Trooper'' company now At
tho Casino is in Rellevne HosnitaI With
'he Cae'"o' 10 III pehe'ue i'ospi.ai' WIN
a bullet in his head the result of an
4, ntaht ,ast wadnasd,v IN 40 ,oard
hight last Wednesday, IN the poaru-
ing-house at 26l West Thirty-seventh
street
., ,-,,..,
Inc physicians at inc hosp''ai say 'hat
Ripley cannot live, and word has been
rosnaotohio and WEALTHY ~ rarra
Respectable anu wealthy at lerre
Haute. Ind.
Actor Ripley was removed from the
,rrutshod go, nan.a ~, Me- xate
iurhisheu-rooih mouse Oh Mrs' hate
Burt, 2O6 West Thirty-eighth street. He
had visited ber nlare under peculiar
nnu ho,pa aH Q nnd O o,o,nc,,
circumstances between anu ''o'N
last night.
Ripley had been living at the Thir-
y-seVenth street mousse Tor TWO weeks
On account of the great secrecy main
tanned an To VINO the real pronrietress
~ 80 houso ,s t,a true ,raa r,ness ~
vi the house 49, the true III aIuness Vi
the attempt at suicide Is difficult to
obtain.
On .! the front do5orplate is the name OF
the MISSES iaiacne' put no one IN
body bod else says that NM Mrs ' McKenna
kps tne R Iace' anu poet nus
keeper two doors away says that Mrs
Reitiy is the one ab IN fhar gSidr,v,t last
W. w any rae aoou' LIS. iaat
, Mehesuas ohe oi w NJ, snIt1 VII
heard oy the alleged Mrs. S Mch SII,,,a,
Stoillis i,oni nipiey ioonl. ohe uluh
The Saut Dorr mem Ro IN peI lame down
. ne next in9ihiiS HipneS came uI Nv IL
stairs with ms head swathed IN BAN
udses anu pipot Pa i, un i,o ~,
II rs salu tnat hIp,uy w. MaiuGnIe t "a ap4u i
az gay yes,eaiy WIN trt pui pull, IN IN i ,.s
m eau. FIequehtiy ne ment naCh 70 tne
Thirty,seventh street house and tried It., to
nave MRS. Men emma TAKE MN IN. one
reiusea; noweVeri anu sen. MN nm away,
nesieStIlS .ne "Hiie u iepor' 'he hia''ei
to the ponce.
ADout O'clock Iasi evening young
OSSsaen' n music nos ieaGer pus whose
Piniey on TbirtvlseWenth street He mi
ai rpavSlV v in his nocket and ap ne Ted
70 De t ,1S biro % ur O,su,Iivar,s
otine t az 9s s' Vast Thrtv'eiSbth streat
where she told the physician that Rip
ief X ha n. Sniiivap conId tnd M wound IN
tho r,eht temnle and cnnciude1 thai the
hmI,ate baS nj nanetrataI H. e'" sL III
ne uresseu .ile mouiu anu IeCohiiii ,i leu
h bnns 'i'e '''ai' oe '"Ne' ~ 'o's''s
Miss O,Rrien took Rinlev TO MIS-
Burt's house and then left saving that
sbn wo,,iI 1et nhwsicIsn' "''Ne '""'
sns wo tnId set rs pl Hrt tbat Rinlev bod
been in a fRht and that somebody had
-. cIubbed him nav
After the woman had gone RinIev
grew hilarious and began To sing He
+ sat on the stoop and about the hall
singing 1.-TWO Little Girls in Blue
he nIaved with The little daupbter of
a theatrical man named Fletcher as If
in good spirits
Mrs. Burt was alarmed however. and
went to DR.. .O'Sulllvan's office. He told
and that when he went to bed he would
sleep all right.
Nothing was said to Mrs. Burt about
She returned home and Ripley was
induced to go to bed.
About ii o'clock Policemen Brown and
hat she had a man in her house who
to Mrs. McKenna's house and found
Ripley's room like a slaughter-house."
as they described 1t.
II was nearly / o'clock this morning
when they had got through with their
tn nv.s SO carefully were the he
West Thirty-eighth street and found
Ripley lying on his bed In a semi-con-
scious. condition. The bullet had then
hours
d" Hastily ringing up an ambulance, the
man was taken to Bellevue, and there
I Tas 'as rs, ,%e RpleyS real condition
What convinced the detective that the
actor had really attempted suicide was
ne discovery OF this note in his room
al Mrs McKennas:
To Father and Mother:
Ct unequal struggle The life insa TS is Is
N"'m H. WILL.
1t is not known as Vet in what lh i n,
ance company he had taken out a pyiicy.
with his relatives
The policemen had also found Miss
co. 0Bren. They scored her for taking
Ripley to the West Thirty-eightb street
house, and when a word was dropped to
hastily left no BIC ''''e"' W "''e'e' '''e
Dr. O'Suiiiyan TODAY said that when
Ripley came 10 mis- house last night
Miss OBrien had the revolver in her
AMI ne tool took the weapon from Miss o'Brien