The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-15
WA sHE KARNER,s WHEY
A Possible Clue TO the Identification OF In,
Montreal Suicide.

MONTREAL, sept.:14.-No progress has been
made in unravelling the mystery of Miss War
ner's' suicide at the Hotel Cadillac on Satur-
day night The young man who took tho girl to
the hotel porter at tho train here did not come
from New York with her as supposed. He is
O Montreal commercial man to whom she APP
pealed for direction just outside the station.
Detective Carpenter says that to-day a detec-
tive from New York reached here on the case.
An elderly gentlemanswith two ladies, who said
they were from New York, but refused to give
their names, the body at the Morgue
to-day. Ono of tho ladies betrayed great agi-
tatlon, but said she was only shocked at the
sight Of the dead body and not moved on ao-
count of having particular interest in the sui
eide.
TROY, Sept. 14.-The' impression pre-
walls here that tho young woman who
committed suicide at the Cadillac Hotel
in Montreal was tho wife Of Albert 8. War
ner, the New York lawyer. alleged to DO
implicated in the Conway kidnapping case.
The description Of the dead woman very close
ly fits Mrs. Warner. Until recently Mrs. War
ner was visiting her sister In Waterford, a
suburb of Troy. When a reporter called there
to-day he was informed that Mrs. Warner had
gone to New York. 1t was not believed at tho
house that the Montreal suicide was Mrs. War
ner.
SCHENECTADY, Sept. 1i.-Many residents Of
this city believe the Montreal suicide to have
been the woman with whom Albert S. Warner.
the New York attorney and arch conspirator
in the Conway kidnapping case at Albany last
lived. Chief of Police Campbell, in answer to
a telegram Of inquiry from Montreal, said to-
day that the woman might have been Albert
s.. Warmers wife, with whom he lived at
Waterford, or she might have been a woman
with whom Warner Is understood to have been
living. There are twelve Warner families here.
but from them nothing can DO learned about
the suicide In Montreal.
about a month ago. at the time of the Conway
kidnapping in Albany. they were also on the
with Warner and claimed TO be his wife. Her
name was Mary Greene and her home was in
Oneonta until shortly before she met Warner.
the only legal wife Warner had. She was OF a
refined and prepossessing appearance. the brief
description Of the Montreal suicide which has
been sent out fitting her exactly. This woman
has relatives in this city, but they have heard
nothing Of her SINCE her departure from here
on Aug. 81. Tho local police are OF The belief
that Warner loft here for Canada Immediately
after the arrest OF his confederate, and. that the
Greene woman went with him then.
| 1t was ascertained from u friend Of this wo-
man that she always signed her name Mary
e.. Warner. the q. standing for Greene. her
maiden name. The friend also was quite posi-.
tive that she had seen the suicide in the dress
she wore when she took the carbolic acid.
s~cription of Mrs. Warner was denied last
night by the lawyers mother.
The report is-a mistake" she said. MY
daughter.in.law is alive"
Mrs. Warner the younger lives at Waterford,
n. V. and Caino To this city about II week ago 10
take back the two children Of the fugitive law.
mother. Mrs. Warmers brother.in.law las u
farm at Schenectady. 1t was said that the
and that the initials on the cuffs OF the dead
woman, M. u. W. were not hers.