The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-08-08
HER IDENTITY KNOWN.
Mapleton's Mysterious Suicide
Was Margaret Earning.
Positively Identified by Her Sister.
in.law This Morning.
She Had Lived at o Hanson Place,
Brooklyn, Although II 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
Barring, of 90 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 la W
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 newspaper
clipping about the suicide.
The letter read:
THE inclosed slip, I thought. relates
to your sister Maggie. leave 1t to YOU
to attend to the, matter. shall do moth
Ing further In the matter"
Mrs. Earning, knew something was
wrong, and visited the Morgue, where
she identified the unclaimed body be-
yond all doubt. as that Of her husband
The children said that the suicide had
lived on Hanson. place, two doors from
the M. r Church and directly opposite
the Thirteenth Regiment Armory.
This house Is number 9. When the
the Barring woman had ever lived
The neighbors, however, said that she
did live there, and also gave the names
house.
Thsre are m, number Of Ers in thu
VIII The ap peope FIJI shs at No. wer. In
toned about the suicide. Several times
the woman to whom the reporter was
talking admitted that. Miss Barring had
self.
The people living in the vicinity OF
No, have been very much interested
:" they SAID said Miss Earnings most fire.
tallies with that of the man who called
at the M Hen;rs, M 5Sn:y d...o,,. r.,
been detailed on the case to obtain al
the information possible and learn the
cause that prompted the young woman
When Mrs. Earning called at tn,
Morgue this morning she told Keeper
Mcguire that her sister-in-law had beer
very uncommunicative for about a year
and seemed to be worried.
She had lived with her brother fol
the Hanson place house. About a veal
ago the young woman had to undergo q
difficult operation in a New York hospi
tai. and she had not been we'll since.
For time she had been employed as
of the President of the Brooklyn Board
Of Education.
Later she was employed in the rope
walk.
Mrs. Cameron. the woman who lives
her brother-in-law. gave out the follow
ing statement this afternoon:
ABOUT May 1 Miss Earning, ]
don't know her first name. came
to me to engage a furnished room,
ton from former landlady. 1 as
signed her to a room, which she &C.
cupied until last Sunday, when she
left, and has not since returned.
"If she committed suicide / did not
eide !" until 1 read OF it IN the news.
II suppose 1t is her body at the
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 l know
OF, and l am ignorant OF any cause
which might have driven her to sui
Mrs. Cameron is prostrated by, the
death, and two physicians were In at.
tendance on her this afternoon.