The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-06-03
HER NAME UNKNOWN.
Suicide Of a Handsome Woman
in New York.
Had Box From Bangor Drug
store Among Belongings.

New York, June 2.--The handsome,
well.dressed woman, registered as ''s. A.
Brown of Boston," who was found I'M
conscious In room 4ss OF the Metropolitan
hotel ct eth street and broadway, last
night, died at Bellevue hospital at q. m.
today. without recovering consciousness.
Closely resembling the case Of "Mrs
Everett at the Colonnade hotel, and the
case Of Alice Cozzens at this same hotel,
when it was the Coleman house. is that
Of the nervous young woman who secured
a room st the Metropolitan yesterday.
In her case, as In the others, palpabie
effort has been made to conceal identity.
Not scrap Of paper or letter has been
left behind. As in the other cases, also,
the woman was supplied with money,
wure valuable rings and gold watch
with monogram IN. l.. s." ON the
outer case, and In a small hand satchel
had many pretty articles Of the feminine
toilet.
The only things upon which identified
ton can be based are the marks upon
these articles.
worn BY the woman is as follows;
Her coat was a drab bedford cord. tailor
made, lined with brown satin, brown
velvet collar, marked springer Bros !,
boston,"
Her waist was black satin; a tag at
taohed marked lot $50, size 80; prices 9271
"a; on reverse side "a.
Her skirt was reddish brown wool, silk
lined.
Underwear: Black silk petticoat with
gold stripes, a white lace trimmed petit
GOAT, black drop stitch stockings, red silk
suspender, royal Worcester gray corsets,
with pink shoulder straps.
Her shoes were high. black laced,
marked on black silk, Thayer, McNeal
81 Hodgkins, Boston, On white silk
lining In red ink, the mark, "4-AA---
S1s45--4S6',
The woman's condition was discovered
at Q p. m before the deadly poison which
she had taken had completed its work,
and she was removed TO Bellevue hospital.
She drove up in q coupe TO the ladies'
entrance TO the hotel on 9Th street at 10
.. m. She walked to the clerks desk.
carry Ing u small bag and a silk umbrella,
and asked for q comfortable room.
When the clerk presented the hotel
register to her for her signature, she
asked him to place her name in the book.
He did SO, writing the name IS. A.
Brown, Boston, as she gave 1t, without
psetix Of "Miss'' or Mrs" The clerk
noticed that the guest wore no wedding
ring, that she was apparently about SO
years old. OF fine appearance, although
apparently not in very good health, and
was very well II not fasbionably dressed.
The woman's actions Immediately after
her arrival, as she went about the hotel,
attracted toe attention OF Mrs. Herd ling,
wife of the proprietor. 81 noticed that
she was extremely nervous and apparent
ly not very well" said Mrs. Herdiing last
night. y had TO go down town to our
otner hotel, and did not return until nine
was about the woman whose q uiet actions
had noticed in the morning. So spoke
t, E. l.. keters, the night clerk, asking
how MRS. Brown was. He had not seen
her. and suggested sending a bellboy to
her room. The boy reported that ha could
get no answer when he knocked; that he
saw the woman lying on the bed. He
was frightened. Then MIR. Peters went
upstairs and saw that she was dying /"
The woman, unconscious, was fully
dressed. The police were notified, and
the policeman who responded sent In
call to the West 30th street station for the
reserves Instead of an ambulance call
The result was that an hour elapsed be-
fore the ambulance surgeon arrived. ET.
In the meantime Mrs. Herdling had
summoned DR.. Fleming, and he was
working over the woman when Drs,
Christian and LOOMS same from Belize
vue. The use Of q stomach pump revived
the woman, and she was taken to the
hospital In the ambulance, under arrest,
though unconscious
From their examination the physicians
decided that she had taken an opiate,
probably morphine, and that she could
not recover.
she was about 80 years old, had an at
tracttse face. dark complexion and hair
and was well dressed. she was not very
tall in her hand satchel were two rings.
oEea half Karat diamond and the other /.
pearl She had double case gold watch
and on one OF the covers was the mono
gram, 'H. l.. s." or IN. L. So GA
tbs other cover was set q sapphire. On
handkerchief the letter "K" was stitched
in q corner.
In the bag was also found q number Of
toilet articles carried by women, among
them being q piiibox containing rou ge,
on which was a label showing that IL
had come from Fowler's pharmacy. rs
Main street, Bangor, Me. In q purse was
s67.2b.
The initials ON tie watch. which were
supposed to be II. IA S., are now thought
to be L s. II. There are also soine
articles bsaring the mark, "B. II. LARA
Mass -
The initials l. S. H. were discerned
this morning on the handkerchief.
The number on the works of the
woman's gold Waltham watch is 8.Ol5.-
662, ON tbs inside Of the case lis the nuu-
bsr v 1928. Tho laundry mark on the
clothing WAS 224.
Up to late hour today no clue had
been found leading to the Identity OF the
woman.
Word was resolved from Bangor tonight
that the mysterious suicide might be
Elizabeth Feeney Lutz, formerly OF that
city. From Bangor also came word that
Agnes. sister Of the Lutz woman. could
be found at No. 1877 West 79sh street. but