The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-14
WOULDN'T LIVE WITHOUT hin.
uIIkER TOLD MRS. GUERNSEY
HE'D GO BACK TO HIS WIFE.
,n.p She Took Poison and Died In the
Uosp,tal-He'd Been Getting Money
lie Lived On From His Wife In the
YEAR lie spent With the other Woman.

lie lived On From His wife In the
Year lie spent with the Other Woman.
..oman known as Mrs. Claudia Guernsey,
-bo for more than year has been living In
,his CITY or travelling around the country
-i,b John r. Walker, who says he Is an ad-
vertising agent, committed suicide early
yesterday morning In the Hotel Navarro
nv taking carbolic acid.
walker and the woman had been living
!, the hotel az man and wife since April 80.
snd it is thought that she killed herself
because Walker told her he was going to
eaye her and return to his wife, who keeps
A boarding house at East Twenty-second
street
Mrs. Guernsey. who, according to Walker,
VAS the widow OF Philadelphian, is sAid to
have been a woman Of means. At the time
Of her death she wore rings and jewelry
worth about 81, 800. These and other effects
hacked in three trunks, were removed to
the Coroners Office awaiting some relative
10 come and claim them.
Walker, who Is about 40 years old, was
a conspicuous figure on Broadway ten
Years ago He wore clothes that went
teyond the extremes Of fashion and always
attended the Horse Show and other such
functions where he might show them.
AT the time he was most In evidence
along Broadway, 1t Is said that he was
supported by his sister, who then ran a
boarding house at 10 West Twenty-second
street. His sister married several years
ago and about five years ago Walker took
q wife
10
teen months ago and left his wife for her
Mrs Walker says that after that time Wal
ker had no employment, but, according
about 81, 900 a month. He and Mrs: Guern-
sey travelled about the country, living at
the best hotels, and spent last summer at
While away from his wife Walker wrote
10 her and sometimes took money from
fatuated with him and begged him to return
home. He and Mrs. Guernsey came back
10 this city from New Orleans on April 30,
and that evening Walker went to see his
wife. leaving the other woman waiting for
him near by.
two hours and the Guernsey woman, be-
coming impatient, went to the house. Mrs
Walker ordered her away, and after wordy
war struck the woman with a rawhide
whip. Then she told q servant to put the
woman out and rough and tumble fight
followed.
Walker and the woman went to the Hotel
Navarro that night and took an expensive
suite Of rooms. Little was known Of them
there except that their bills were paid
promptly.
woman. BE went back to the hotel with
Mrs. Guernsey. got drunk he says. and
told her he was going to leave her.
Early yesterday morning the woman
went to the bathroom OF their suite and
when she returned ann9HnHed that she had
10 the hotel of1ce and Detective Maxwell.
who went to his room, found the woman
unconscious. An ambulance was sum-
moned and the woman was taken to Roose-
welt Hospital. but she died soon after being
walker was taken to the West Thirty
seventh street police station and locked
up. In the West Side court yesterday
morning he was remanded to the custody
OF Coroner Scholer, who, after his investi-
After the Magistrate had released him
Walker and q policeman went to his wife,
where Walker demanded $50. She re.
luctantly gave it to him and then he went
TO tho Coroners' Office In the meantime
he had asked Detective Marvel! to MI
OuC = oA0AA ASA 80
body. Maxwell did 50 and signed It with
his own name. and Undertaken Winter
bottom Of 6S8 Sixth avenue, armed with
the order, removed the body from the
hospital to his shop.
When Coroner Scholer found that Wall
was no relative Of the woman he revoked
tho order and sent the body to the Morgue.:
The Coroner and Walker then started
out to find relatives who would take care
Of the body and the woman's property.
Walker said the woman lived formerly
in fat in Seventh avenue with MIR. Dens-
low, a curb broker. and his daughter, but
that she had sub-let the fiat and that the
Denslows had moved to 8H Seventh ave-
nue..
Miss Denslow told the Coroner that the
dead woman was no relation Of theirs and
that neither she nor her father would have
anything to do with the case, nor would
she tell who the woman's parents we're
and Walker said he didn't know.
Undertaken Winterbottom removed the
BODY from the Morgue last night. He said
no was ordered to do SO by the woman's
mother.
Coroner scholer said that he had found
that the Guernsey woman was the da,igh-
ter Of Mrs. Guernsey, who is the mother
in-law Of ex-Coroner Lynch, who lives at
Jerome avenue and ls6th street, The Bronx.
The Coroner said that according to Mrs.
Guernsey, the dead woman was never
married