The sun., 1897-05-19
|slTED HER FROM SUICIDE.
-,r JOYCE TRIED TO DRoWN
CENTRAL PARK LAKE,

-, nv q Poiiceusan-vwhen Arrested
2fFsN,N. ,r,o,s 10 Jack woods,o with wheun,
s.,s. she Had Biopee rrou scheol-
-. s,ory-uer Ldre in Pennsylvania.
IN. Park Policeman Kahl was near the now
w., the southern extremity Of Central Park
.,s,ock Yesterday morning he saw a young
80 climbing the fence that surrounds the
" -, He grabbed her and pulled her back.
. =. hrote away from him and again started to
-. The fence, when he caught her.
soh Iet me CO." she begged, do, please.
4 =, "a leave this world and get away from my
tUubles.
4. ,,ted permission to write q note and send It
!. N. telegraph oflco at Eighth avenue and
,,s-siphth street, where It would be called for.
-. note was addressed to Jack Woods" and
a, as follows:
snrAR JAcK:I went to drown myself In the
-, and an officer saw mo. / want you to come
- right away to tho court at Fifty-seventh
f.,.,t. near Third avenue, a. have been ar
,sted kirTIE
sAs added postscript, saying:
sTor Gods sake como, as need you. Don't
!. anybody know what you are doing. Just
N them that you are willing 10 sec me home.
"K."
sne told Sergeant McGlynn that her namo
=, Katie Joyce. that she was 2l years old and
Err,d at 1872 West Sixty-sixth street. She added
e,t ber father was Judge Joyce Of Pittston.
), and that her uncle was Judge Lynch of
. vlkcsbarre, Pa. She said that five years ago.
sortly after she was graduated from school,
/ ss met Jack Woods" and the two became in.
ttuated with each other. He was the son of
inl, hnr %
hou home with him. They came to this city
nd lived together.
Recently his love seemed to cool, and as she
culd not live without him she had determined
b drown herself She said she had quarrel
Nth him Monday night, and put on the worst
So,hes she had In which to destroy herself.
4 since she had left home, she said, her father
Il,d refused to have anything to do with her.
ict her mother kept up correspondence and, at
times, sent her money.
he woman was taken to the Yorkville Police
|ourt on a charge of attempted suicide, and
lased In me pen fi wnHFe sne Snet.ea ana isughed
when arraigned she said she climbed the fence
Ib enjoy the breeze and that while she might
Ave said something about suicide to the police
hil for trial. in default Of which she was sent
b the prison below.
yUuns man, who had been sitting among the
Psctators at the rear of the court room, got up
ind went out. He said he was tho Jack
Woods " referred to In the note, and added that
!. had been acquainted with tho woman for
Rttston, but ho denied that he had taken her
nom her home. Thoy had been living together
ID this city for some time. Whom he came to
bis city he had considerable money, but lost 1t
|hrough her expensive habits, as she was con
lscovered that she had other admirers to whom
Ihe gave his money. and he determined to have
Iiothing more to do with her. but she would not
lIow him to leave her.
Monday night she called at q real estate Office
k Broadway. where he had desk room, and
lapped her face. She left, telling him she in
tnded to kill herself but he did not believe she
sould carry out her threat.
Il am sorry for her." he said, but she de-
Hired and ruined me-" He said his family did
tot live In the city.
IAter in the day he called at the Jail and told
hs woman that he would get q bondsman for
WuKEssAHRE, Pa. May 1s.-Katie Joyce is
trllknown here. She is widow. Her maiden
iire was Katie Carabine. She lived for many
aled the White Elephant" Katie has figured
many times in Wilkesbarre police courta. When
rratgned q favorite method OF hers has been to
EIe names OF prominent men who. she alleged,
I'D boen ensnared by her wiles These tales
lai up to the time she disappeared from here
tes thought to be quite q pretty woman.
She is not related to Judge Lynch and there
Ne no connections of the Joyce family of her
ine. There is no Judge joyce in Pittston.
, daughter Of Mrs. Winifred Carabine, who keeps
ihotel on Main street. Several years ago she
Earricd Peter Joyce, ono Of the victims of tho
Twin Shaft Mine disaster here last June. Since
is death she has been leading q dissolute life.