New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-07-27


URDAY AFTERNOON WHEN SHE
THREATENED TO DROWN
HERsELF-sEEN WITH
BIGGs ON THE
SAME DAY.
The mystery surrounding the suicide OF Lille
Low had not been cleared away by Coroner
OMeagher and the police yesterday when the
body Of the girl laid at rest in Woodlawn.
Enough had been learned about the grIs
wrecked life to point to a probable motive Tor
suicide, but there had been no explanation OF the
marks on her body which indicated that she had
been assaulted not long before her death.
DID SHE GO TO WASHINGTON HEIGHTS
ALONE?
An attempt was being made yesterday to find
some person who had seen the young woman go
TO the lonely place on Washington Heights wnere
her BODY was found on Tuesday morning. The
police want to know If she went to that place
alone or If she was in the company Of any per-
son with whom she had been acquainted re"
Gently.
CAPTAIN Pickett OF the Nineteenth Precinct,
made this statement:
The girls death was surrounded by strange cir.
cumstances. The autopsy showed that she had been
There was nothing left for the police TO do but to
sift the whole thing and leave stone unturned 70
tSa fafn sse Eny commtSd suicide Mr. Low now thinks
So but he feels that the persons now under arrest
oughy about this neighborhood and nave found
number Of pe0Pe Ths knew M o~ aes t two per
sons 80 apparently devoted TO each other AS tney
with the case do not think hat there
is anything against HIM We unders,ana ina. Una, ne ne
knows about her. Trowbridge knew more about her
than did Mr. Inman.
Coroner O'Mea CHER said yesterday that ne
thought he was justified in holding Miss Amelia
X Hanson Henry T. Champney and DR.. Tnomas
J. Bggs for the inquest. They say tney are re-
spectacle people, he said, but let them prove
their respectability at the inquest. The evidence
so far obtained indicates that Lille Low and her
father were devoted to each other until the girl
was led away to her ruin by Miss Hanson ana
her boarders The girl was weak-minded and
easily influenced She could not have written
the letter which it is alleged she sent to her
IA ther accusing him Of shocking cruelty, ana
am inclined to the belief that Mr.. Low has SUI"
fered great wrongs at the hands Of the persons
now under bonds. even If they did not cause the
girl 10 Kill herself"
| SAYS HE SAW BIGGs AND THE GIRL To-
GETHER.
Oscar Llpsker German baker Of No. 81
| Nadison-st who Is employed by NJ. Vogel. at
No. p Mott-st., vent to see Acting Inspector
Brooks at Police Headquarters yesterday ana
said he was almost sure he had seen Dr. biess
| and Lille Low together on Saturday afternoon
a, Amsterdam-ave and One-hundred- and-eighty-
| ffth-st. Lpsker said he took advantage Oh ms
| haf-hoiiday en- Saturday 10 go on ride 10 the
| upper part Of the city, where he could get some
| fresh air He went on 'he elevated train 10
| One-hundred- ty-fifth-st. and then rooe
on a cable car TO the end OF the line at Amsters
| dam-ave and One-hundred- d-and-e ghty -ffth-st.
| When he got off the car he got drink OF soda-
| water at a street stand and as he was drinking,
| he noticed a man and woman who were stano"
ing near him and talking earnestly. His atten-
| ton was attracted to them 50 strongly that ne
| kept watch # them several minutes. and saw
| ,heu po into tie woods IN which the body Of
lille Low was found on Tuesday. He said he
was half inclined 20 follow the couple, but he
thought better OF II. When he read the accounts
Of the girls suicide and saw the pictures OF Dr.
Bggs in the newspapers, he felt sure that ne
had seen DR.. Biggs and the girl together.
Acting Inspector Brooks called Captain Pickett
and told him 10 take Lipsker with him and see II
the German could identify DR.. Biggs. captain
| Pickett took the German 10 DR.. Biggs's house ana
! office but was not able TO find Or. B!ggs Lips"
ker's description Of the woman he saw In Amster-
dam-ave on Saturday tailed closely with that OF
Lille Low Captain Pickett said last night that
IL would be interesting to know II Dr. Biggs and
| the girl were together on Saturday near the
place where she probably killed herself late on
Monday afternoon.
| Lille went 10 Grants Tomb in Riverside PARK.
on Sunday evening. and acted so strangely thae
| she was arrested on suspicion When sne was
| arrested she said she vented to drown herself.
n,,a- hmm reA- N l.
tventv-dfth-st she said that she was Ill and that
d. Biggs was her physician DR.. Bggs was
called TO the police station and he took her back
70 the house of Miss Hanson. The next morning
Lille left the house again and did not return.
| sha was known to have purchased the revolver
| n a pawnshop on Monday afternoon. and she was
| seen bv an ACQUAINTANCE as late as O'Clock IN
| Thirty-second-st. Last evening the police had
| not found any one who saw her go to the woods
on Washington Heights on Monday afternoon.
| 4 dispatch from Cincinnati yesterday stated
that Dr. Bggs secured a divorce from woman
he had married about four years ago On oeto-
Der e. 1891 he sued for divorce from Lua a.
Biggs. alleging fraud in the marriage contract
and the Dispatch said that she left him SIXTY
days after their marriage, In 1890. at SAINT dc
Maria Mich She went to New-iork and did noe
oppose the divorce. which was granted December
23 1891. Dr. Bisys was prominent ph' si''ai'
at Glendale a subdrb of Cincinnati 1T Is saio'
and was connected with the Medical College with
Dr. Massey physician Of the G. IA. ana H. faii-
road and had sufficient influence to suppress all
publication about his suit and decree OF DIVORCE
THE BURIAL of LILLE LOW.
The body Of Lille Low was buried yesterday
afternoon There was no funeral and no display.
Early In the day the corpse was placed In plain
coffin in the undertakers shop at No. 200 East
Twenty ty-sixth-st. and the coffin was set in q
pine box There silver plate on the coffin.
with the inscription: Lille Low. died July "a
1885, aged nineteen years.
A number OF women were at the undertakera