The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-03-29
MISS STEVENS A SUICIDE.
sHH Wxs THE WoMAN VINO SHOT
HERSELF IN THE PlRR.

uer aody Identified By Her brother, WITH
whonn She LIVED II Brooklyn-ghs Il
Supposed to Have bees Temporarily Ia
ss.s Owirg 60 ~ Attack or the GRIP.
The body Of the woman who shophersslf with
q revolver In the right temple a little after 2
O'Clock on Friday evening near the West Sew
enty-second street entrance TO Central Park
ives identified yesterday morning at tho Morguo
by Luther +. Stevens a. that Of his sister. Mary
Elizabeth Stevens.
Mr.. stevens, who 10 . druggist. has lived re-
Gently with his two unmarried sisters, Mary
aud Louise, at 1853 South Portland avenue,
Brooklyn. Miss Stevens, who was Al years old,
was an artist. She painted china and crockery
TO order.
Until three weeks ago Mr.. Stevens and his two
sisters lived at 14l Baltic street. They then
moved to their present address. While attend
ing to the packing and unpackinR Of the furni-
turo Miss Stevens caught a cold which, developed
into the grip. She was Ill for two weeks. Dur
ing last week she resumed her household duties,
although still weak from the effects OF her ILL
ness. On Friday morning she went shopping
and appeared to DO in the best OF spirits.
She returned for lunch and went out
again at g o'clock. She did not say where
sho was going. When she did not return
for supper her brother and sister supposed that
she had made a call on friends who live a
short distance from their house and had re-
NAMED to dine. Later In the evening those
friends called at the house and said that they
had seen nothing Of her. AS tho evening wore
on. and still Miss Stevens did not come home.
Mr.. Stevens became worried. At IL o'clock
that night he went to the Brooklyn Police Head
quarters and had n general alarm sent out.
As he had heard nothing of his sister, Mr..
Stevens decided to come to New York yesterday
morning and notify the police of this city. On
the way 10 the bridge he bought a newspaper
and read an account OF the suicide in the Park.
Preparing himself for the worst. Mr.. Stevens
went directly to the Morgue instead Of Police
Headquarters. There he identified the dead
woman az his sister.
1t is believed that Miss Stevens killed herself
in a hit Of temporary insanity. which was the re-
suit of the grip.
An Interesting feature OF the case is that
Miss Stevens's Identification would have been
brought about. even Il she had not been reoog-
beers found on her shoes. Her shoes bore the
firm mark of ]. & 4. Cousins OF ADS Fulton
street, BROOKLYN. Tho sizs was o C, The nun a5s
indicated the stock number, \ Sun reporter
called at the store yesterday, before the identi-
fication. in the hope Of tracing the woman
by means of these numbers The reporter
saw Manager G. F. Case and told hin. him
read an account of the woman's death in an
evening newspaper and had seen the numbers.
until he came to the number 222. This referred
him to the delivery slip. which gave the date Of
The date OF the Slip was Nov. 10, 1895. and the
address that OF Miss Stevens at 141 Baltic
street. Mr.. Case went to that address yester-
day morning and learned that Miss Stevens had
moved to South Portland avenue.
Mr.. Case said that ten years ago a burglar was
caught and sentenced in Hartford through
similar shoe markings. MIR. Case had charge of
the shoe store in Hartford at the time. A man
had been robbed OF considerable property. The
Hartford police held a man suspected to be the
burglar. Tho Chief Of Police discovered the
mum bers in the shoes and brought them to Mr..
Case, who looked up the numbers in his stock
book. He then found the delivery slip. which
gave the name and address OF the man who had
was completed.
Coroner's Physician Schultz made an examin-
alton Of Miss Stevens's body yesterday. and
granted a permit for its removal to Brooklyn.
The park police believe that she took poison
before she shot herself. Yesterday morning
Park Patrolman Connolly found a half-ounce
bottle containing a few dregs of laudanum in
the wisteria aTbor at Seyenty-second street.
only a few feet from the place where the suicide
was committed.