The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-05-01
WAS WELL KNOWN HERE
GRACE M. CARTER COMMITS sUI-
 UIDE IN 4 NEW FORK HOTEL.

Had Been in the Company of an Unknown
 Man-Death Was Due to Asphyxiation-
 A Number of Cards of New Haven Citi-
 zens Among Her Effects-Probably Lived
 in Meridcn.
 New York, April BOA man and wo- man of apparently respectable appear ance registered at the Belwood hotel last night as Ben Hall and wife, Brook lyn. N. Y. The man left the place this morning, leaving the woman in the room. Late this afternoon she was found lying dead on the bed with the apartment full of gas, which had evil dently been turned on with suicidal in tent. The keyhole was stuffed with paper, and the only window was tight ly closed The body was still warm when found. The Woman's clothing was old and torn. In her pocketbook were found pieces of paper which lead the police to believe that she was Mrs. Grace M. Carter, who probably resided within year or two in Connecticut.
 The piece of paper which seems to es- tablish her identity is the following re- ceipt:
 "Noroton, Conn.,, Aug. F, 1S96.-Re- ceived from Mrs. Grace M. Carter the sum of $1O on account of divorce pro- oeedings, September court.
 "E. E. JOHNSON"
 There was also found a prescription IL. fnl low druggists, Middletown, Conn.,, on it. On separate scraps of paper or on cards were a number of addresses, including the following: Daniel F. Mcclure, Broad street, New Haven, Conn; A. Winslow Leighton, M. D., 215 York street, New Haven, Conn.,; J. H. Burn ham, SS Washington street, New Ha- ven Conn; J. B. Roberts, Hartford, Conn, and number of addresses in this city. At none of the addresses in this city could any information be ob- tained about the woman.
 The woman was of dark complexion, with dark hair and eyes, and was ap- parently of Hebrew extraction. The man was also apparently a Hebrew. The police have good description of him, and will take him into custody to explain the condition of the woman when cleft her. The authorities have no doubt she committed suicide.
 Dr. A. Winslow Leighton and his wife have been in Europe for some time and will not return until October and So could not be seen.
 David F. Mcclure, who lives at 5S Broad street, was seen but did not re- member anyone by the name of Grace Carter.
 He did recall, however, having met a woman on the street two or three | months ago, who gave her name as Grace Smith and said she had a sister who was married and lived in an ad- | joining town. Mcclure says he gave her card with his address upon it and | this is doubtless the one found upon l her body. Mcclure says he only met her once and then saw her for two or three hours only. As near as he could thirty or thirty-five years, not especial. ly good looking, and he thinks of rather dark complexion. She told him, he | says, that she was stopping at Hote Garde, but an examination of the regis | ter there shows no name of Grace Smith or Grace Carter, and 1t is prob able that she did not stop there. Mo Guire says she gave him the address oi her sister, and that she said she was going to New York.
 J. N. Burnham, a brakeman on the owl train on the Shore Line road, cou1t not be seen last evening, but other rail. road men say there is woman named Grace Carter, loose character, who k well known among railroad men. This Grace Carter's home is in Meriden anG she has two sisters, one of whom. Liz zie, is married to a MT. Sparks. Thi: latter fact would seem to corroboratt | McGuires store as to the woman he met having married sister living il | Connecticut.