The evening times., 1898-11-11
PLEDGED HER East JEWEL
Then Buys a Razor and Sewers
Her JugulaT Vein.
TRAGEDY In A PAWNSHOP
Woman Gives Up
Her Wedding Ring and n Baby Pin
to Purchase n Blade With Which
to Release Herself From Misery.
Her Identity Unknown.

New York. Nov. 11.-While laboring ap-
parently under great mental strain,
we'll dressed woman ended her troubles in
a pawnshop al No. S52 Ninth Avenue with
razor she had purchased there by
pawning some jewelry. Her identity is
not known to the police, and the motive
for her desperate deed is a mystery.
From note that was subsequently
found upon her 1t would appear that her
life had been unhappy.
Business was dull in the pawnshop at
4 o'clock in the afternoon, when the mo-
notony was brought to an end by the
hurried entrance of a well dressed wo-
man of perhaps thirty-five years, and
suffering from great excitement. Her
face was pale and her cleaning eyes be-
trayed a condition of mind far from nor
NAL
How much will you give for this?"
she asked the clerk Samuel Buxbaum,
of No. ia Attorney Street, as she handed
him a plain gold ring worn thin from
constant wear.
IT'S my wedding ring" she said, the
tears coursng down her cheeks. II We
never had it off before. See how thin it
is worm she said. breaking into sobs.
There is little sentiment in the heart of
a pawnbroker, long accustomed to wit
ness every degree of human misery and
suffering. He caught the treasured bau
BILE and threw it into tiny scale
It's light" he commented. Twenty
five cents is all | can advance"
Hesitating for a moment as If about to
change her mind, the woman asked if he
could not make it more. He replied that
he was sorry, but Business Is business"
Drawing a small gold pin, engraved
with The word Baby on ii, she proffered
it 10 him, and on this he offered similar
amount. While the clerk was at the desk
making out the tickets the woman grew
strangely calm, and. calling second
. clerk. she said she wanted to see some
raZors. She would like to buy one
Business was business. and. not stop
ping TO think what possible use a half
crazed woman could have for a razor,
several were handed TO her for examina-
| tion. Selecting one she handed him the
80 cents that had been advanced on her
jewelry and started to walk from the
shop. When half way to the door she
stopped. with lightning-like quickness
drew the razor from under her cloak,
and, bending the blade so as TO rest firm
ly in the handle. she drew the keen
blade across her throat. seyering the ju-
gular vein almost in two.
As she fell with a single groan she
struck the counter. The clerks ran to
her assistance, but il was too late. DR.
Rondquist. of Roosevelt Hospital. said
when he arrived a short time later that
death had probably been instantaneous.
The body was carried to a rear room
and the corOners office. communicated
with When no official from that place
',od arrived by O'Clock the body was
taken to the NTSst rnrtV-seyenth Street
station.
BuXbaum says the woman told him 10
make the ticket In the name of Mrs.
/ Wicket and that she lived in "Sixtieth
Street" When pressed for more explicit
! information she replied that she could
not recall the number.
The woman was of medium height
light complexion, brown hair. dark blue
eyes and had upper artiticia' teeth She
wore black dress. a bacl lpine hat,
drab shawl black hose and laced black
shoes. In her pockets were found 81 96 In
cash, newspaper clipping a slip of pa
per on which was written ''75SA Madison
Avenue, Reid Avenue car a second
slip containing the address, IS. S. Auric.
pier s. North River" and the following
note written In pencil and unaddressed:
May God and my children forgive
their mother. Good-by forever. \ ruin
ed life. Verdict temporary insanity
but such is not the case
There were also four' hostage stamp.
pair of brown kid g.o-as a lead pen
Gil and six steel hair c-i X
The ring she had pawned was marked
with the initials u w. to NJ A.
Nothing further about the woman
could be learned, although every effort
was made.