The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-04-06
WOMAN OF MEANS SUICIDES
MRS, EDWARD WOLFBAUER
 SHOOTS HERSELF.

1 Apartments In a Jersey City Hotel
 Owned Property in Washington
 Which She Leaves tO Her Daughter-A
 Baltimore Girl by Birth.
 New York, April 5.-Mrs. Louise Ames Van weik killed herself in the Hotel Washington in Jersey City yesterday. 1 She was perhaps thirty-1ve to thirty seven years of age, blonde and good looking. She arrived from the west Fri i day morning over the Pennsylvania railroad. On reaching Jersey City she called a cab and was taken to Hotel 1 Washington.
 | Those who met her at the hotel found her in good spirits. She seemed well supplied with money and numerous packages arrived at the desk from New l York stores for her. She was last seen alive Saturday evening when one of the maids on the second floor of the hotel went to the room which Mrs. Van Weik occupied to leave some towels. Edward Chase, son of the proprietor, dDOuI IlOOl lO-udy IlOlACSu we through the ceiling from an upstairs room. He forced his way into Mrs. Van Weik's room and found the faucet of a basin open and the water overf1owing. Mrs. Van Weik was sitting in rocking chair facing a mirror. Close inspection showed her to be dead. '1s Mrs. Van Weik had disrobed except for her underclothing, and had then drawn on a tea gown. This she had opened at the throat and, sitting in front of the mirror had placed a revol- yer against her breast over the heart and outside her garment and fired. The bullet must have passed through the heart. On the table was box contain ing cartridges for the revolver. There were five shells gone and one empty one and four charged ones in the weapon. The cartridges if not the pistol, are sup posed to have been purchased Saturday. County Physician Converse fixes the hour at between midnight and o'clock Sunday morning.
 In the room were found the keys to a safe deposit box at the Garfield Safe Deposit Co.,, New York city. Two regis tered parcel receipts were also found in the room. The registry took place at the Jersey City postoffice on Saturday ar- ternoon. One was sent to Campbell M. Royston, 2,515 North Charles street, Baltimore, Md, and the other Charles H Townsend, r West 35th street, New York city. s -.,.
 Although it was supposed that Mrs, Van Weik arrived direct from the west FrtHox- foIIF1 ranaiY,fS from a New York department store showing purchases made on March 19, the goods to be sent to the Marlborough hotel. Because of this it is believed by the authorities that Mrs. Van Weik only came from Washington or Baltf- more after visiting there following a visit to this city early last month.
 Several bundles of letters were found addressed to Mrs. T. A. Wolfbauer of Baltimore and to Mrs. Edward w. Wolfbauer of Washington. All these were signed by Edward W. Wolfbauer and addressed the recipient as wife The most recently dated was in 1901 and most of the letters were written from various places in Cuba. From the sig nature to the woman's will, which was found among the letters, it is supposed that MT. Wolfbauer died and that she remarried, her second husband being named Van Weik.
 The will was dated Sioux Falls, s. D., March 2, 1902. This document leaves all the wardobe of the testatrix to Mrs. Henry Garland; Washington, D. c. To the daughter of the testatrix are left the two houses and lots in Washington, D. c. An insurance policy for $1,500 is also willed to the daughter. MT. Roys- ton and MT. Townsend. the men two whom registered packages were mailed, are named as executors Of the will.
 Superintendent Sylvester Of the Washington police was telegraphed to. He replied that he could not find any relative of the dead woman in Washing ton. She was known there, he said, and so far as he knew MT, Wolfbauer was still alive. Something over a year ago Mrs. Wolfbauer left Washington for South Dakota and more recently obtain ed a divorce there. Of her subsequent marriage if there was one, the Wash ington chief was ignorant.
 Washington, April 5.-Mrs Van Weik was divorced from her first husband, MT Van Weik, by whom she had a child, a daughter, who is now in prl- vate school in this city. About three years ago she married Edward Wolf bauer, a New Yorker, and it Is said re- gently took up her residence in Dakota with a view of obtaining a divorce from him also Mrs. Van Weik had engaged quarters at house here for the racing season. She was a Baltimore girl by birth.
 Daughter "fnn Army Officer.