The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-09-23

But Frederick Mead. Church Trustee, Won't
Talk About Her.


Frederick Mead, the tea merchant. whose
father made fortune In groceries during the
Civil War. came down from his summer home
in Stamford. Conn, yesterday morning and
found at his ONCE in Pearl street group oil
newspaper reporters waiting for him. The
morning papers had told the story OF the death
in an East Side tenement OF poverty
had loyed her, when she was beautiful
She had evidently taken her life rather than
po.Sn soS NOR %as ph sF and
tween the leaves two half sheets OF note paper
On one sheet the woman had written:
Frederick Mead. 3S Pearl street sumner
home. Greenwich. Conn. trustee Of the Madi-
son Avenue PresbyterianChurch.
On the other sheet was this statement:
'Iswear before my God that Frederick Mead
hSs takf linn MS od
perJured soul. My last request. bury 1t with
Up. s.-There are others who can affirm the
same MARY L. MCVfCKER."
James voorhis. Mr.. Mead's partner. who
was at the ofllce In Pearl street yesterday
told the reporters that he hadn't heard from
his partner since he left the otice the day be-
fore. but he was sure he would be coming in
..Better wait for him., said Mr.. yoorhls. DO
think he's the mann No doubt about 1t; Here
home. Greenwich. Conn. that's where
tny pent D nsr ihsT bS sn es
n nsq Harry '0f Haysmeyeys; " tPrus!se IN the
no ' mistako about that. Did / ever SEQ this
woman? Never heard OF her before-inag have
S a9w here but but ch hS Th,
mans doing until you ind out, can you?
When Mt Mead came into bis Is 1fiice no YES az
had any statement to make in regard to the
woman's death.
ehsS g. that fEa Ssw said .Sch sAs tSs
/ knew a woman years ago. No. |
haven't seen her for years-ysars aso-haven't
Can't talk about it-.you understand knew a
woman years ago1that's qll-that's enough for
doing with my name-crazy probnblv-all this
scandal In the papersn,you see l can't talk
Have you been at the Morgue this morning
to look after the woman's body?" asked one OF
the reporters, 4.
to whether | have been at the Morgue. or
haven't been.at the Morgue.. or this and that. /
sna Mr. Mead boSsd his II ou
Frederick Mead. the elder. died on Oct: II.
last year. two days after his sons marriage. The
Mead homestead on Putnam Hill. Greenwich.
R Vi Twoe andoT hS nS, 'o whsrs
Tweed ,afterward had his retreat The
Mead fortune was nearly all divided
NJ, who was married to Edwin A. Abbey. the
artist. and who lives in England. An annuity
was provided for Herman. another aon. The
Meads' town house was at | West Fifty-sixth
street. The house Is now occupied by FEEDER
lex Mead. In October last whom tho elder
Mead was very low. the son married
at st. Andrews Church in Stamford. Two
days later MIR. Mead died. in his eighty bird
year. Frederick Mead is 81 years old He is u
tall. spare man. with gray hair. With his wife
he had this summer been occupying n house in
Stamford belonging to the Hnvemeyers
Mrs. Rooney the janitress OF the tlat-house
at 355 East Eighty second street, where Mrs.
McVickor lived the first half Of the present
year, said Yesterday that the woman had told
her that want would drive her to suicide.
4 tall. gray-haired man came to see her.
said Mrs Rooney. "She used to meet him at
the Elevated station at Four csnth street and
Sixth avenue. One day last February she went
down here to meet him and didn't find him. She
went down to his office. He wasn't there. Then
she Went back, to Fourteenth street He met
her there and gave her SO, That was the
last money she got from him After she
had to sell her furniture she told me
she would kill herself She said she
would leave the mans name in her Bible.
so that everybody would know him. And
that's what she did. She used to be beautiful.
she said. but she disfgured one side OF her
face with poisonous cosmetic. that's why she
always wore a veil One day she came to my
room weeping. with her b BILE in her hand.
He took an oath on this book that he d
mover desert me-. she said. He used to say.
You're my Mollie. No woman can come be-
twApn u1 ~