Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-06-30
THE FAIR SUICIDE.
1t Was Miss Mary KuenzeI Who
leaped from Steamship Georgia.
Her Homo Was at Newark = because Her
Father Would Not Lot Her We'd an
Eligible suitor Life Had No Charms for
Her.

Although the Bay has not yielded
up it's dead. the mystery of the ident-
ty of the lady who jumped from the
steamship Georgia wednesday night
has been solved and her sad story of
q struggle between love and duty has
become public.
The story is told In the Baltimore
Sun of yesterday as follows:
"A special dispatch to The Sun, re-
ceived from Newark, N. j.. last night,
appears to solve the mystery of tho
identity of young woman who jump
ed from the Bay Line steamer Georgia
while off Chesapeake Beach WcdneS-
day night and was drowned.
From this it appears that the young
woman was Miss Mary Kuenzlc,
daughter of Anton Kuenzle. of New
ark. and was engaged to be married
to Bertohold Wacheter, also of Newark,
and that she left home because her
father would not consent to her mar
riage.
A PATHETIC STORY.
1.-THE dispatch from Newark follows:
Captain of steamer Georgia reports
that a lady jumped overheard from
his ship last night. She came aboard
without baggage and gave no name
This message was sent last night
by Acting Chief of Police Vellines. Of
Norfolk, Va, to Chief OF Police Hop
per, OF Newark. 1t was an uneXpect-
ed answer TO telegram of inquiry as
to whether such u thing had happened
which Chief Hopper sent to Norfolk
early in the afternoon merely to sat-
isfy the father and lover of Il young
Newark woman who threatened to end
her life by jumping from a boat while
going from Baltimore TO Norfolk.
Chief Hopper did not think the girl
would carry out the threat after think.
ing it over. Now there is little doub
that she did.
She is or was Mary Kuenzle, the re-
naming unmarried daughter of Anton
Nuenlle. Born of Swiss parents, she
was OF medium height, we'll built. light
haired and blue-eyed. She was lust
26 years old.
She was in love with Berthold Wach-
Ter oil 81 kcssuth street, who is also
OF SWISS Parentage. He is about 81
years oid and earns good wages as
SILK Eraid maker. He and Mary were
engaged in marriage. but her father
objected His only reason was that
he did not want Mary to leave him.
Tor he had nothing against young
Wachter."
II make enough to take care of
Mary and you. too,' Wachter often
told kuenzle, land you can live with
u.s." But the girls father refused TO
see 1t that way, even though she also
explained matters and begged him to
I let her marry Wachter and come and
| live with them. When her lover urged
her to marry her father threatened
that If she did he would leave and go
out West to the home of L married
daughter.
FATHER WAS OBDURATE.
Mary stood for months between love
and duty, anxious 10 do justice to
lover and father alike. No amount of
persuasion C0Ill6 in1iIpa hn fn 10
consent to the plans of the young peo-
| pie. though recently he modified his
threat to leave by adding: And when
you get married you can come West
knew that this could not be and her
father simply declared that he would
go West if she married.
This was more than week ago and
Mary became melancholy and the
home at sc Komorn street was no
longer happy Wachter sought to dis
| pei her dependency BY declaring that
he would wait, and that the father
might change his mind. But Mary
knew better and she continued to
brood over her inability to choose be
tween paths of love and duty.
SHE LEFT HOME.
On Wednesday morning early Mary
left home. She took no extra clothing
with her and her father thought moth
ing Of her all-day absence. Though
she had declared she would do some
thing desperate because he refused to
let her marry and then live upon her
husbands income when he was unable
| TO earn his own living. he did not
think she would commit suicide.
WROTE FROM BALTIMORE.
She remained away all night and
| yesterday morning he got letter
| from her. 1t was dated at Baltimore
on Wednesday and contained 81, which
was all she had left or the SIS she had
when she went away. She would have
no further use for the money. she said,
| because she proposed to end her life.
He supposed she would remain in Bal
| timore until the steamer Alabama
| sailed that evening for Norfolk. She
| had bought a small handbag and n
| steamer ticket, and saId that when
| the steamer was well under way She
would jump overheard.
THREATENED SUICIDE.
| In the letter which reached Kuenzlc
about noon she said an affectionate
| farewell to father and lover and asked
| their forgiveness for her decision TO
| kill herself because she could not
| choose between them