New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-09-22
SrTCTDE FOUND AFTER DAYS.
WOMAN LIVED ALONE IN An ALMOST EMF I
APARTMENT. AND 80 ONE KNEW HER

| WOMAN LIVED ALONE IN IN ALNiO"i '
APARTMENT. AND 40 ONE KNEW HEN
For some days the tenants Of the new hV@ SOY
n,,honso n No seS East Thrty-fourth-st nave
been complaining Of sckening smcn' ""' "
great eror, was made TO discover tho cause ~
Robert Frederickson tho jantor. IN" nu'''i'S -
a new one and there was no reason LOT N"o'
complaint Yesterday the jantor traced inc s'''"
! 70 the APARTMENTS on the first floor occupe" pY -
| handsor1e woman about forty years old, VINO had
h.d the roon,s on Iuly u and had paid two
rno,ibs' ront in advance She gave her hdiile %
Mary f. McVickar. and appeared 10 pc cu''"'e
and woll-to-do. She went out FOR her "e'''' "''
never went out IN the evening. ~
I,redorlckson called Policeman Fiizparlck' Oh w"
EAST Thrty-dfih-st station and they got III nv Inc
49, car Tho bodv clad I'm undertaking.
l,v on f. cot, Tho face was swollen and hlackeh''
AZ was the body. On window sll WAS wa
which had contained carholic acid. The cot WIZ
the only piece Of furniture I'm the four large rooliS'
The woman's garments hung on hook near me
cot 4 note found containing inc i'"'"''e'
written in e fine feminine hand.
To Frederick Meade NJ. 70,
forgive me-. MARY T.. MNlCkAk'
The envclope was not sealed. The woman had
evidently taken carholic acid. If IS suppos'u ~.
soptember IL. when her rent was due 30 money
or trintets were found on the clothes. Frederick
son is Of the opinion that the woman was "'""s
from some ono.
Mrs. Mary T.. NcVickar # WAS learned later' was
known 10 Mrs Kate Rooney. the housekeeper oi It
bp anartrnent house ii SO. 300 East Eighty-secon'
st. where she rented q fat six months ago MIS-,
Rooney SAWS she had expensive IurnlII' ~ III
often found by herself sobbing quietly. Sl' .9u
Mrs Rooney that she was married '"eItl W
wears ago 10 a man who Is now pionIhfi,t III van
street seven years ago he had deserted her' lo1
what reason She did not say. and Ms I'oou,l i"r
moi the heart 10 ask She said the man sen I''
money but three months ago this was vi ."ldw u,
and the woman went 10 Mrs. Rooney anu ,u.u I,t
She was penniless. She finally sold her luIillu'''
worth more than N.0Nl ana received >l"a- 800,
When this IL gone TIT Kill myself she ihH ''i
Mrs Rooney. There is mo- use of M h'lns. ~
my life I've had nothing but troIole Snr ~
then shown Mrs. Rooney small t1thohc preaSuH
book which she asked her to notc' 'd' '.f,
When I'm dead" she said 'youl .ear "l d II ad
want YOU 10 come and look in my clothes ana "n.
this book 1t will be on my body Vpfn H. Nh ana a. 2o
The inside YOU Will md the name Or tne man W 10
has ruined my life and caused me 10 p'ar .ori. Nv
that would have weighed Christs Cross - III
earth 7 will also leave statement OF me tlSlIs
and see that il IS printed in the papers / WI loo
,Xrose him while live. but the world must Do Hr
Justice when / am dead. even II u won no 80
.. 49,, so 81
The next day she eft the house Il was no. V M
informed of II last niEht by reportNr tnd' ME-.
Rooney knew ~ h,r death. Mrs toonHy sag s M
would endeavor 70 comply with tho "oma" > re-
quest about the prayerhook