New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-09-23
ACCUSING NOTE BESIDE HER
STORY OF MARY E, MvICKAR's LIFE TOLD
BY THE JANITREsS OF THE FLAT


IN WHICH SHE LIVED
Mary McVickar. forty-ive years old w<s found
snad Thursday in her fiat. at No. s26 East Thirty
,ourth-st as reported in The Tribune yesterday.
:, &c believed that she had been dead several days.
:, hottle which had contained carbolic acid
nd under her pillow. and her death is supposed
- have resulted from this poison Beside the bottle
NV a copy of the New Testament. and between its
,asves was found an unsealed envelope marked
private" which contained two sheets OF paper.
ON one OF these appeared the following:
AR Fred Mead. No. lSs Pearl-st.; residence. No.
Nest Fifty-siXth-st.; supmmer home, Greenwich.
Conn.: trustee Madison Avenue Presbyterian
Church.
Frederick Mead: May oGd forgive your perjured
SOU A'U MARY E. MvICKAR.
The other half sheet contained this:
swear before my God that Frederick Mead has
s iame" May Almighty God forgive his perjured soul
XIV last request bury ii with me.
Nb 's-There are others who can affirm the same
MARY L. MNICKAR.
On the pillow Of the cot lay a folded sheet of
naper on which was written What l am to do
without a" and within the folded paper
COPY Of some verses entitled The End OF the
Way"
The Frederick Mead mentioned in the notes is
supposed 10 he the senior member OF the wholesale
%, firm Of Frederick Mead & Co. who have offices
{, this city AT No. l3S Pearl-st. HIS home in this
ctv IL at No West Fifty-sixth-st.. but pres
emf he is living at his summer home Palmer
NIL near Stamford. Conn. where he occupies
Of the cottages owned by Henry o. Havemeyer. Mr.
Mead's father who died year ago.
director Of the Fourth National Bank in this city
and was reported 10 have left large fortune. half
Of which Mr.. Mead inherited. Last October Mr.
Mead married Mrs. Bowman. musical editor Of
one Of the New-York newspapers. His sister is the
wife Of T. \. Abbey the artist. Mr. Mead
IS member Of the Yale Alumni Association and
University. and city clubs. and trustee Of the
graduated from Yale in the class Of IL
rP 10 short time before her death Mrs Nc
s. FOR several years and while there she told Mrs
Rooney the jantress that twenty-three years ago
Ssburoh but that they had separated seven Years
agO: that she had received money from him up to
last February. when he sent her s25. and that
Rooney further said that Mrs. McVckar had been
Then she Ws good lookne in a,emptns TO r
tain her hne complexion she had resorted TO the
face disdgurei For this reason she always
wore veil when in the street.
ported 20 have acknowledged knowing Mrs Nc
Tickar but - have said that he had not seen
56ay hat Mrs Mcvesar had 1V any ge rsht e' to
leave such a note as the one addressed to him
was nothing in his entire life 10 justify her writing
DR.. Parkhurst was widely reported TO have been
Nj M,ads pastor but when seen last evening
Dr Parkhurst said that this was error arising
Mr Mead being trustee of the Madison Avenue
Presbyterian Church. while he or ParkhursO
was pastor Of the Madison Square Presbyterian
The Rev Howard Agnew Johnson pastor of the
Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, when seen
made the following statement:
AS q the circumstance mentioned in the paper
J have nothing whatever TO say. Mr.. Mead has
been held in high esteem. a Of irreproach-
able character and has been valued trustee in
our church.