The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-08-12
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CUBAN GIRL SUICIDES
For Love OF the Worthless One Who
Betrays Her

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For Love OF the Worthless One Who
Betrays Her
] New York, Aug. I1-Because the man
to whom she had trusted her love and her
life, Lulu Seamans, a beautiful
young Cuban. committed suicide
IN the presence Of a pleasure seeking
crowd at Coney Island yesterday. More.
she nearly took several others with her.
for the weight of the crowd which gath
cred about her as she died was SO great
that the board walk for a distance of
one hundred feet broke under the strain.
In the panic which followed many peo-
pie were knocked down and trampled.
Such number of women carrying child
rem were caught in the rush that 1t seemed
to be certain that some one had been
killed, but all escaped serious injury.
Early in the summer Albert Seaman, a
tall. handsome. blue-eyed fellow, called at
the Abbey hotel, on Tilyous walk Coney
Island, and engaged a room for himself
and Lulu Seaman, who, he said, was his
wife. The girl was refined and pretty. She
told those who tried to win her confidence
that she was twenty years old. but the
that she was much younger. To others
she said she was a Cuban; that her father
and mother had been slaughtered by the
guerrillas, but that her brother still lived
and held high rank in the Cuban army.
She would never tell her maiden name.
Seamen seemed to have plenty of money.
though no one knew how he earned it,
but after a little while he neglected his
wife. At first there were no quarrels;
the girl, it seemed, steadily trying by de-
votion to regain the mans affection.
When this did not succeed she tried TO
rouse his jealousy. She told one of the
maids at the hotel that it seemed to be the
only way to hold a man to his first love.
After Seaman had seen her once or
twice in the company of other men there
were quarrels in plenty. The girl told
Seaman frankly enough that if he neg
lected her to go on excursions with other
people she would not sit at home and
mourn his desertion, but, would. instead,
find friends for herself. Seaman went out
with a party recruited from among the
Coney Island soubrettes Friday night, and
when he returned early Saturday morn
ing there was quarrel. Later in the day
the couple made up their differences and
went out together, but the trouble broke
out afresh when Seaman announced that
he intended to go out with some friends
on Sunday. He said that he could not take
his wife
Yesterday morning the couple began
early to quarrel. Seaman dressed him
self and said that he was going out to
breakfast. The girl remained behind and
the chambermaids heard her crying Sea-
man returned and told Lulu that he was
going to Far Rockaway and would not
be back until late. The girl sat up and
looked at him
''If you go out and leave me here alone"
they heard her say, You'll find a corpse
when you come back"
Jaw. get out" retorted the man, bru-
tally, you won't hurt yourself any. You
haven't got the nerve to commit suicide"
Haven't /? replied the girl, quietly.
well. just you wait and see"
Seaman went out shortly afterward. and
those who listened expected 70 hear an
outburst Of despairing sobs. They were /
After a while Mrs Sea- /
man, dry-eyed and apparently cheerful. /
came from her room and went 10 break !
fast. AfterWard she wrote a note and sent (
it by a boy. Apparently in response to |
the note a man appeared, and the two left /
the hotel together
An hour later ROBERT Boyle, who keeps
a little lemonade stand not far from the
hotei, saw Lulu in conversation with a
man. As they talked they moved along
until they were opposite the place where
he was standing. The girl seemed much
excited and frequently pointed TO some
thing that was beyond Boyle's line Of
sight While he watched the girls re-
puted husband come from the direction in
which she had been looking. and after say
ing some angry words TO her passed on.
The girl looked after him and then, rails
Ing a small bottle to her mouth, began 70
drink its contents.
Boyle who had not lost sight OF q move
nent the girl had made. jumped over his
stand and struck the bottle out OF Der
hand. Some Of the carbolic acid which It
contained fell upon DIS hand. burning +,
badly. Al the same instant the woman.
at her throat. began TO Shrek
md the crowd surged around
Policeman Marshall, who was near the
spot. heard the screams and burst through
he crowd in time TO catch the girl as
she fell TIE man with whom she had
been talking disappeared in the crowd
The walk on which the suicide occurred
Vas thronged with people. and they press
i forward 20 see what was the matter.
Zee board walk gave way under the
,rowd, and there was a panic
Lulu Seaman vas put into Al ambu-
ance and hurried toward a hospital bus
ne died before ne CONVEX enoe aad gone
hundred yards. Her body was taken 70
he Coney Island Norge Nothing s.
Known % the girls history. she wore
10 wedding ring. and the man Seaman
aunot be found by tne police