The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-09-16
Erring Husband a Medical Stu
dent About TO Graduate.
GIRL WAS A PRETTY NURSE
According 10 Several Letters Found They
Had an Agreement TO Die
Together

Rochester Sept. 16.-Leland Dorr Kent
and Ethel b. Dingle. both 20 years old
and living in Buffalo, made compact of
death and attempted to execute It In a
room at the Whitcomb house yesterday
morning.
When their room was broken into by
the hotel servants summoned by a guest
In the next room. they found Miss Dingle
dead In bed with her throat cut and Kent
still alive. but with gaping cash In the
throat
In the girls open left hand lay a razor.
slightly splattered with blood Kent was
almost raving maniac. He appeared
and acted as though drugged. When
taken from the room by hospital surgeons
ne turned TO take last look at the corpse
OF the girl
II thought / saw her smile" he said
and bent low over the cold form He WAS
greatly agitated and cried out I'm agony:
'Ethcll Ethelr'
KENT WILL RECOVER.
Kent will recover from the not danger
Gus cash in his throat. Detectives have
guarded him since he was found at the
hotel, and his arres. on the charge OF
numbering Miss Dingle will depend on the
result of the investigation begun by the
Coroner.
Director OF Detectives John w. HAYDEN
has several letters left by Kent and the
dead girl which explain the agreement to
die together which they had made
Kent made a statement TO Coroners
Kleindinst and Thomas A. Killip This
statement has not been made public pul
IL Is learned that Kent told others soon
after being found in the room that Miss
Dingle first cut his throat and then her
own. This Is generally doubted by the
physicians and police.
Leland Dorr Kent is a medical student
who would have graduated in another
year from the Riverside hospital. az Buf-
falo. His father Is general manager of
Che Masonic Afe Insurance company in
Buffalo.
Young Kent lived with his wife and ?
year-old boy at No. asa Fargo avenue
Buffalo. He had been married three
years. His father and wife and sister ar
nved at the Homeopathic hospital la ST
night and talked with him OF the crime
81 the Whitcomb house Kent and Miss
pingle had been associatlng only about
two months.
DEAD GIRL A NURSE.
Ethel Bates Dinsle was born in Plctou
Canada. but her home for many wears
had been Hamilton. For the last four
or hve years she had lived In Buffalo. and
most of the time she had been In the hi-
verside hospital as nurse THAT ,s
where she and Kent met and became IN
fstuated with each other. She was dis
charged from there few weeks ago. and
then was brought 20 this city by Kent.
who arranged for her admission 20 st.
Mary's hospital where she was 10 un-
dergo an operation.
Mics Dingie concluded not 20 submit, 10
ne operation and returned 10 Buffaio.
During the period Of four yeers thar
she had been connected with the River.
side hospital Miss Dingle had left several
times and returned. At one time Wine
away nom there she worked for tho Boil
Telephone company IN Bufaio, and n ~
her photograph that may be seen on Tn.
hrst pnce Of the Bell Telephone directory.
Miss Dingie commenced suit for dam
ages against the Bell Telephone corn.
pany for tire unauthorized use Of her pi,o-
togrsph In the book and that action t. stu,
pending