The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-11-29
COULDN'T Get CASH
DR.. Edith McCrery Who Acted
Strangely in Wichita
SUICIDED AT EMP0RIA
Her Sad Life Story Told in
a Letter TO Girls,

suicide at Emporia Sunday morning, was
in Wichita last Friday and Friday night,
and is supposed to be the same young
woman who was at the Santa Fe depot
with a young lady friend residing on
North Market street, whom she had acci-
dentally met after a long separation and
was very much in the company of after
they met here. The two were at the
Santa Fe depot, where Miss McCrery
was to take the Santa Fe east. The
train being late, she made some extra
aoquaintances and had a chance to meet
q travelling man with whom she was &C
quainted. who was then stopping at the
Manhattan. Miss McCreary claimed that
she was the advance agent Of a trio of
evangelists, whom she claimed would be
In Wichita in about three weeks. She
also 9old several other stories which
seemed very much on the fake order,
and it is thought that possibly her mind
was not right when she took her own
life in the Emp0ria hotel. She told the
young men at the Santa Fe depot that
she had been recently left an inheritance
amounting to SOS, 600, which she would get
possession of some time next summer.
A reporter for the Eagle learned this
fact and questioned her about ii.
Yes said the woman, Il have an in
heritance of $4,000 recently left me ~
relatives in the east, but tonight I must
confess to you 1 haven't but 80 cents to
go on
She then mentioned the fact that she
was very much gone" on a cert1in
young man in Wichita, and would like to
spend some Of her wealth upon him. SIZE
would not tell her name, and neither
would her Wichita friend who was with
her at the depot, and there seemed % be
something mysterious in her demeanor.
Before bidding her friend goodbye she
told her to address her first at Lyons,
then at Emporia, and it is thought that
the DR.. McCrery who suicided is the
same woman, who was either mentally
unbalanced or playing very queer game
10 get sympathy and cash. At times she
was gay and audacious.
The Emporia Gazette gives the follow
ing account of her death:
Dr. Edith McCrery committed suicide
either late Saturday night or early Sun
day morning in room in the Emporia
hotel, corner Of Third avenue and Mer-
chants street The first known of the
affair was when she was called the sec
ond time for breakfast. The woman
could not be awakened, and the landlord,
Sam McNealy, after trying the door and
finding i locked, threw several things
through the transom to awaken her.
When this failed man was hoisted
through the transOm and unlocked the
door When the people who had been at
tracted By the efforts Of the landlord
went into the room it was found that the
woman was dead and cold. BY the he'd
was a good-sized bottle Of strycaare
The woman had taken poison.
The dead woman was graduate Of the
Weltmer Institute of Magnetic Healing
OF Nevada, Mo She came here Two
months ago with Dr. Penroy and with
him has been practising until about a
week ago, when they dissolved pact1.r-
ship. She was young woman of about
2I " ars, unusually progressing in ap-
pearance When she LETT the doctor she
week ago Saturday, when she returned
here and went to the hotel Friday
morning Miss McCrery again went TO
Wichita to get money, so she told Nc
Nealy. She returned Saturday night on
the fast mail, and, going to the hotel.
said: Il didn't get the money, but you
need not worry about your board bill.
1t will be paid" During the evening she
was around the house talking with the
women folks and seemed in her usual
spirits.
The doctor, besides being a magnetic
healer. claimed the power Of a clairvoy-
ant She had made several trials while
at the hotel. The landlady says that she
went to heaven often and looked around.
but she never could find hell.
Among her personal effects was found
helf chewed plug OF tobacco in the
pocket Of her dressing jacket and about
b pound in her trunk The remains were |
Viewed by the coroner and hen taken
20 Samue!s' undertaking establishment. |
DR.. Boylaa at the inquest today 5roueht |
forth the following letters. which ex- /
plain the woman's life and her troubles. |
/
Dear Mother Sister and Bro1her-I |
expect this viii almost kill you al. but /
! got discouraged, did wrong. and ,hen I /
never could quit this deviIish HABIT and /
never could pay the note. and haven't a 4
cent 50 I viii be now where you WI |
always know where l am God bless vo,
all, and l hope this Will be a lesson, COR |
all that have ever done wrong. want /
you to sing Guide Ne. as the Apple of .
the Eye and lead Me to the Rock" |
May the Lord guide you all. This fool /
ish girl has done 50 very wrong. COD 7
bye. God bless You all
EDITH MCRERY Dean.
Another letter says:
Dear Mother and All-You will hear
from me again. I an sorry for you all I
and myself, too, but il is too late now
and can't be helped. Send a telegram 70 4
Mr.. Frank Hall. Monmouth. IN"
To the Coroner-Be sure and send me
home TO be buried. Lay me out nicely
Tell my folks in the telegram that /
want to be taken home. Good-5ve n
all"
Girls. take warning. and don't 4,
wrong any more, and then YOU viii D.,
happy and not sorry. Trouble is the
cause Of ali this. Send for .Pendroy and
tell him 10 take good care OF me Till nv
folks come. Ny folks are We'll fixed and
ali bills viii be paid. God bless You an.
p. S.-'She Is more 10 De aitied than
censured. y man was the cause OF il
ell