The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-01
KATE LIE NoIR A SUICIDE.
BNTELoPE FoUND, FRAHKED 70
HER FROM WARRINGTON.

hinnouon en- Hor FtnGorn nno Heur Cents N
Her Purse-she wns the pnughter or n
vVashipEton Mechanic. ana was . Type
writer and Copytst-Hna neen - Clerk.
A woman who registered 1t the sturtevant
House on Wednesday as Mis- lie Nolr. New
York" committed suicide In her room on
the third floor oasly yesterday morning by
inhalinR gas. Sho was found by the hotel
Waterman. who, smelling the gas. broke into
her room and found her lying on tho bod with
the end OF arubbor tube, which extended to the
gas fixture. beside her. Two physicians werc
called. but, though they worked over tho body.
they could ind no evidence that there was life
in It. Coroner Fitzpatrick came to the hotel at
4A.M. and gave q permit for tho removal of
the body, which was taken to q Fourth avenue
undertaker's.
Tho dead woman was about 80 years old. and
had probably been pretty, but her face was
worn. Her clothing was elegant, and on her
hands were three rings, n solitaire diamond, n
diamond marquisc, and a diamond and sapphire.
These last two were identified by the Broadway
ieweller who sold them as having been bought
for cash in tho winter Of 1896. the price being
$3.50 for the marquisc and 1875 for the diamond
and sapphire. The solitaire is worth perhaps
5000 moro. The suicide had but 4 cents In cash.
Around the room were a number Of photographs,
notes and other personal property. Through an
address arSnSs hs on one ,n ,s Of the Letters " It, the nv woman was
GsclSseTy was sent for and Identified the body
Miss ,S, lie NOR ! has had d., g room at mS house for
more man two years. said she, She was q.
left here on Tuesday with q friend If hers. a
variety actress named Elsa Rainez, who, I be-
lieye is now playing in Paterson. and they went
to tho boarding house at 142 West Thirty sixth
street. While abe lived with mo she had a mum
Der of visitors, both ladies and gentlemen. but
man. nns % Who ,'iH looked ike Z t Hebrew Ss.' 1ienS used sa0 10
t take her ont Sh. and and they seemed to ID, be very
which she supplemented by work as a
copyist. Her handwriting was beautiful.
and she got plenty Of work to do; DC.
alarmed US at first. as she would talk of
suicide, and moro than once spoke Of throwing
got to think nothing Of il. and her friends in the
house would say joEinElyi when any little thing
herself Lately she has talked about getting q
fiat; and has seemed unsettled in her mind
A the West Thirty-slxth street place Miss Le
Noir stayed only one night, as she did not, like
her rooms. The evening that she arrived a short.
Missy ka %ae; % Snd Miss Mas f Ie Soi rl From ' ssero * Miss iss
There also she was visited by a short Jewish.
ferent times. She had drinks sent up to her
room when the women came. The man came on
s sSSnday 10 o's o!1lo ana s "nd he her REMAINED Sna a pSe Sn fStS a fs%
minutes after their return. About midnight she
rang for O pitcher OF ice water, and that Is tho
last that Is known Of her as being alive.
Some Of the effects taken away by Coroner
Fftzpatrick indicated that the woman came
yelope from Washington addressed to her at
The Thirty-fourth street house. A note from
Miss Le Noir,s young nephew, beginning Dear
Aunt Kittie," was found, also q number Of pho
tographs Of women taken In Philadelphia and
this city. The New York photographs were by
Robinson Of Eighth avenue. Most Of them are
inscribed to Kitty or ITO the Doctor" There
was one picture, by a PHILADELPHIA photographer.
Of a man with side whiskers. The name Kate
lie Noir Is in her bank book, showing $3.50
balance on a deposit OF $50 in the Greenwich
Savings Bank of this city. On the other hand
an insurance book. showing small weekly pay
ments to tho Prudential Life Company Of New
ark, was made out in the name OF Ida B. Hop
kins.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 31.-Kate LIE Noir was the
daughter Of w. J. Le Noir. q respectable me-
chanic of East Washington. Her father has q
moderate competence, his income being derived
from the rental of two or three small houses.
Kate's brother-in-law, w. W. Galway, who has
gone to New York after the body, is a clerk, and
she has n sister In one of the departments. The
girl was a graduate. of the High School here.
while after her graduation, and afterward had
a similar place in Baltimore.
The family know no reason for suicide beyond
the fear that some stomach trouble from which
she has long suffered would develop into cancer
Of tho stomach. She had been. they say,
employed as a typewriter in New York, and her
last visit home was the latter part Of the past
from whom she would receive tranked letters.
Miss LIE Noir's father is employed In the en-
gfneer service Of the War Department, and IL
now at Hanging Rock Shoal, Ala.