The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-10-05

ETHEL DINGLE, NURSE
Her Fatal Beauty and the
Mystery of Her Death.

New York. Oct. THE New York
World prints the following:
In a room in the whitcomb House in
Syracuse. y. Y. on last Sunday after
noon was found the dead body OF beauti-
ful Ethel Dinsle
She lay across the bed. smiling as
though in sleep.
By her side lay young medical student.
gasping and unconscious. Il was DR..
Leland Dorr Kent.
Here was the tragic stage setting in a
drama Of passion and death and here is
the cast OF it
a young woman-desperate and frenzied
in the shadow OF peril she could not
avoid. a peril in which her life would
be al stake.
young man-popular medical student
q leader in his class a supposedly model
Young husband
Miss Ethel Dingle. beautiful. fascinat-
/ ing. besieged by admirers. among whom
we're some Of the wealthiest and most
exclusive society men OF Buffalo.
These two had their secret-a deadly.
blasting secret suspected BY none. and
/ nobody in the world but themselves ever
dreamed that the beautiful girl was liy-
ing as Mrs. Crosby" at 4 secret ad-
dress
I This secret coupact-the linking Of two
I lives in Jekyil and Hyde c3mpac---leI
directly down tic b~oad road 20 death
But was that death suct3e or murder:
Did the deal Sirl attempt 10 Stay her
H. l. J -
razor against her oNn throat? For n
her open let hand 4 :azE WIS found
Nobody acquainted with Etncl DIX ele
appears Wiling 10 swear hat she vas
lefthanded. IL ne .rz9r was placid N
FER hand by the murderer it was Ger
tainly e fatal oversight Je pace II IL her
left hand. IT, as the authorities claim,
she was right-handed.
The sharp-eye6 detectives who swarmed
into the room noted several strange facts.
The razor in the girls hand was scarcely
stained with blood.
She couldn't have committed either muir
Ger or suicide without gripping the handle
with all her strength. said the experts
On the theory Of murder Coroner's
Physician Johnson went to work
He found that the right bicep Of the
dead girl measured 1912 inches and the
left 81. which indicated that she was
right handed.
What. then, was the motive for murdeA,
il, murder it was?
The detectives beban TO look back along
the path OF the dead girls life. The en-
tire history of their findings VIII come
out at the trial OF DR.. Leland Dorr Ken,
for her murder
For Dr. Kent has been duly arraigned
and has entered q plea OF NOT guilty"
And behind the veil OF death that hung
over the room where the tragedy took
place there is Yet another mystery. II
IS the death Of DR.. Jacob E Meyers In
Buffalo on Sept. Z. Il IS suspected that
he was murdered.
The young medical student Kent. and
his beautiful companion. Ethel Dingle
came to Rochester from Buffalo a few
days after DR.. Meyers death. and DR..
Kent says entered into suicide compact i
That Dr. Kent is still alive is due 70
the weak thrust OF the razor in the hand
OF either Miss Dingle or himself
II Is certain that while in Buffalo Miss
Dingle met DR.. Meyer at the Riverside
Hospital. where he sent many cases for
treatment and that Miss Dingie acted
as nurse FOR many OF his patients. he
regarded her ability as a nurse with so
much favor that his friends accused him
OF being fond Of her.
It IS now stated that DR.. George Grant.
the partner OF DR.. Meyer. was engaged
to Miss Dingle. but that the engagement +
vas broken OF just previous 10 DR.. Mey-
ser mysterious death.
A few days after Dr. Meyers death /.
Dr. Grant was assaulted by unknown
persons. and on the following day left /
the city.
on the next afternoon Mss Dingle and /
DIT. Kent left Buffalo for Rochester and I
registered Al the whitcoma House where 4
Miss Dingl-'s death occurred
IRE Buffalo police believe that they +
can connect the death OF Or. Never ard (
the assault upon rs partner. Dr. Grant. 4
IL Buffalo with lie death q Mss Dingle 4
II Rochester
This. however. does not throw light o. /
the great problem which may never o. /
solved.
Was Miss Ethel Dingie Ief1-haude8e
Did she attempt 70 murder Dr. Kent +
the young medical student who accom- (
panied h-r from Buffalo TO the WHIT +
COMB house,
What we're her reasons for murder
What were her reasons for committing +
sliciae7
As before stated. Dr. Kent has heea
arrsigned for the murder OF Mss Dingis f
ssyo-d his Plea Of "not guilty. h. has
rade 20 DEFINITE statement regarding The
tragedy
Kent. when tou-d. vas almost ravins
sniac n. appearance ard act.ors we're
those q = druESed man He liked iHeo
hs-sarly. he raise6 his hands and swors
thar - zas innocent q the Eirls nur
ce- ~ ~ vas being taken fro1 -
sirl's room ~ TIE hospital sergeazts
h turned o.ck With IT'S hand IN -
hez-t sid cas- a last lock upc1 re
oo-r-e q the girl
! thought 7 szE hsr smile - szti
I an sure : sax ~ s-lIs Let re
- back u h-r she cannot - dead
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in Al aEonlze,a veics Eth-l EthsL
II ths -co- Ehe-e the dead Stri lay
vas 3 Iette- . TIE corurs-- Z Eas
a toilo<S
TO TIRE Coro-e- % RocAeStsr
PiezSe 1zM these letters and sd
au- l9oases 10 - buried together az M
expense AZ Forest Lava You-s.
DR. KEN
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