The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-18
WAS NOT THE FIRST
ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE
Alice Hilton Finally Met Death on the
D. and II. Tracks.
FIRST THOUGHT OF DROWNING
But Some Men Prevailed Upon ucrto
Leave the River Bank on SUNDAY.
She Destroyed Hcrsclf the Foliow-
ing Day--Leit II Long and Pathetic
Letter for Her Husbands -Coroner's
jury will Meet Again Saturday AZ
tcrnoon for Further Investigation.

III was learned yesterday that the
first attempt of Mrs. Alice Hilton to
end her life was not on Monday, when
she threw herself in front of Il Della
ware and Hudson passenger train She
would have drowned herself in the
LackaWanna river on Sunday but for
the intervention of several men who
had thwarted her in the attempt
The facts learned yesterday by a
Tribune reporter We're i'm part con
tirmed in the letter which the unfortu-
nate woman left for her husband. This
letter was before the Coroner's Jury
who met last night i'm Coroner Long
streets office, but adjourned to meet
Saturday afternoon at o'clock
Mrs. Hilton was seen Sunday sitting
on the river bank short distance
above the Marvine breaker Her long
stay and actions excited the suspicion
of Dassersby, and as the river is quite
deep near where she was sitting, it
was thought that she contemplated
suicide by drowning.
GOING TO DROWN HERSELF.
She was approached by several men
and questioned as to wha. she was
about to do. She replied that she in
tended to drown herself. They sue
ceeded in inducing her to give up the
idea and she accompanied them to the
mine office Of the MarVine near by. She
was somewhat hysterical and had evil
IDENTIFY been crying. When asked if she
could be assisted in any way she
promptly refused all offers.
Finally she was prevailed upon to
go to the home of Thomas Moore, ON
Parker street, where she was given
supper. TO Mrs. Moore she stated that
her parents lived in Sullivan county
and she had been divorced; that she
at present lived near the Primitive
Methodist church on East Marke.
street. She did not give the number of
the Oakley home 52l East Market
street, where she and her husband
boarded
AS Mrs. Hilton seemed to be in a
highly nervous state, Mrs. Moore did
not question her further about her
trouble. She declined the hospitality
of Mrs. Moore for that night. and at
$50 o'clock started in the direction of
East Market street.
LEFT a PATHETIC LETTER.
The letter left by the woman for Hill
ton when she left the Oakley's home on
Monday, the day of her death, was a
pathetic epistle and occupied three
pages of ordinary sized note paper. Its
contents showed that she had been
accused by Hilton of some wrong. and
as her protestations of innocence would
be of no avail, death was her only hobe,
She wrote she was sorry Hilton had
not kissed her that morning, as he
would never see her alive again. She
had made a mistake, she wrote. in
returning home Sunday night and in
a passage which read but they would
not let me do it," indicated that she
had told Hilton of the episode on the
river bank.
There was a touching allusion to her
little child who was with her parents
in Sullivan county. The letter closed
with kiss and a good bye, and was
signed Alice"
The adjournment was made by the
jury in order to enable Coroner Long
street to further investigate the case.
\ permit to remove the body from
the city was granted and 1t was taken
yesterday to Nordt Mont or North
Mountain Sullivan county, where her
parents are living.