The evening world., 1903-05-20
PR|MA DONNA
ENDS HER LIFE.
She QuarreIIed with Her Hus-
band, and When He Went to
Dinner She Took a Draught
of Cyanide of Silver.

Charles II. Bum. associated with the
National Lead Company in the man
agement of its FORKS in Newark. was
called to the Coroner's office here to-
day to tell more. If possible, or the
circumstances surrounding the suicide
of his wife. who was Catherine Ger
maine, a comic opera prlma donna.
Mrs. Bum died in her apartments In
the harrington apartment hotel, No.
1895 Broadway, from a dose OF cyanide
OF silver, a poison her husband used in
his business.
Mrs. Bum was between thirty and
thirty-tive years old. Her last appear
apce on the stage was with Thomas y.
Seabrooke in The Isle of Champagne
three years ago. She was married TO
Bum upon leaving the stage. Mr..
Bum mad a statement to Coroner
Jackson last night in which he said
that he and his wife had had n quarrel
yesterday morning. He said:
she wanted to go to the country with
women friends" said Mr.. Bum,
"and she told me about that this morn
ing l didn't want her to go. and l said
so. We had a quarrel then, but went
over to the Leaf company's factory in
Newark. thinking little of 1t.
Had Been Drinking, He Says.
when l came home this evening 1 at
once saw that she was intoxicated. She
had drunk two bottles OF whtskey. When
| saw her condition l made up my mind
that she could not go down with me to
the public dlning-room OF the house. 1
told her to stay In the apartment, II
then l went down.
when, I came back she was just
from a closet where / kept
some samples Of cyanide of silver. She
had q towel wrapped o her head.
she staggered from the closet to the
bed and as she went she said:
well, it's all over now. It's al
done. l have taken my last drink. /
am going to say. my prayers now"
h Immediately became unconscious.
Her husband called for DR.. Dunckler. of
when he arrived she was nearly dead.
He called an ambulance from Roosevelt
Hospital. Mrs. Bunn was dead when the
surgeon notified the Coroner.
George Bum. father Of Mr.. Bum. ar
rived at the Darlington to-day to com
fort his son, but the young man had gone
to the Coroner's office.
II was not aware that there had been
any trouble between them" he said.
she was excitable and likely to do rash
things. There was a report at one time
she a married TO a man named
Barton, but he was not the Bar
WHO was former manager OF the Ca
and know there was nothing in
the rumor."
Would Return to Stage.
Other boardcrs IN the harrington said
that recently Mrs. Bum had expressed a
desire to return to the stage, but that
her husbad objected. Mrs. Bum was not
as a woman who drank ex-
As Catherine Germaine. the prima
donna. Mrs. Bum had a varied career,
4 career in which II was several times
she was the wife of several men.
While she was suing Henry w. Rose
n Sydney Resented for $2,OOO
for discharsing her as pEima donna OF
he old "Rainmakers of Syria" produc-
ton in 1888. the defendants alleged that
mail she represented that she had a
face and form suitable to Interpret the
part OF a boy king. while. In fact.
they said. she was built like a BARREL
They also said that she had a hus-
,and, and that that was sufficient rea-
ION for her discharge. But they ad-
that her face was pretty, and
The was given judgment.