Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-05-12
THE UNKNOWN "lIlANIA.'
Her Identity Traced Through a PFaG-
menl Of a Telegraph Blank.
The story OF mn Unhappy Life rs Told
By frirnds Of shs Dead
Woman

New York, May 12.-"Titsnla''
who quoted rom Shelley anu Mrs.
Browning AMI who, before she des-
troyed herseif, left the request that
che might be permitted to rest in for.
getiuiness as one Of the great army Of
unknown dead, Is not to have her last
wish gratified. All Indications are
that in lie sho was Mrs. Ethel Marie
Relss OF No. AZ Columbia Heights,
Brooklyn. The suicide did not accord.
ing to the result Of the investigations
thus far made. have home Ia ST..
Louis, although that was the inference
orawn from an examination of the
pspers found on her body and In spite
Of the marx OF q Chicago firm on som o
clothing she wss wearing, there is
nothing to Indicate che mad been
there recently. Mrs. Reiss was
Identified by fragment OF u
telegraph dispatch found with her
papers. The watersoaked scrap hnl-
pened to be torn from shat part CT the
telegraph blank where the check.mark
10 placed. The manager OF the postsi
telegraph company on whose blink
the destroyed message was written,
discovered the number OF the dispatch
and the initials Of the sending and re-.
ceiving operators, through W n CHI Mrs.
Reiss was traced.
All that is known Of Mrs. Reiss 10
told by Mrs. DAVID Narins, proprietor
OF the boarding house where she spent
the last month Of her life.
"Mrs. Reiss came here elk months
ago." said Mrs. Marine, who identified
the woman lrom ner description. "Bhe
TOLD me that che was u writer, she
said that she had cLme from another
boarding house In Brooklyn because It
was too expensive and she must
economics. She told me she had been
married twice anu that both her hus.
bands were dead. An elderly man
frequently called on Mrs. Reiss and
she referred to him MS the professor,
asked her once who Is the pro-
Iessor.' She replied, 'Ob, q friend of
mine; 1 am writing book anu be H.
helpiug me on It,"
Mrs.. Duuart, keeper Of another board.
Ing house, eRid:
"The woman lived here for about
eight months until last fall. She told
me che was from Denmark. was a
writer and was studying SpaDieh.
About her only caller was an elderly
man whom che called "the professorO
although q young man, who she said
was her cousin anu lived In St. Louis,
called occasionally. She got coca.
sioral money reinittanoes, she saiu
from Denmark. She was very melan-
choly at times. I think she had
trouble with her second husband, who
I think was living, although sho said
he WINS dead. Within year she has
been III In hospital In at. Louis,
"Mrs. Reiss LETT my house last October
saying she was going 10 Albany to be
married. She told me before that she
had been divorced from her first hus.
band In st. Louis and had married
another in Chicago. WHAT became of
her second husband she did not say.
She told my niece once she often felt
that she would like to die, and II she
did she hoped 1t would be by drowning
sa she had been nearly drowned twice
and the sensation wss q pleataDt one."
The crematory company mentioned
in Mrs. Rslss's letters will Inc nerate
her remains without charge. Further
it qulry established that Mrs. Reiss's
Gamer, the ''professor," was mochani.
cal engineer nsmel Arnold.