The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-09
PARK SUICIDE A MANICURIST.
VI. X. WAS MILE KRUGER, WITH
STORY OF BETRAYAL.
Body Positively Identified by Woman
Who Says Girl Was an Austrian and Ex-
pected TO Wed Soon Rich Man Who

Who Says Girl Was an Austrian and Ex-
pected TO Wed Soon Rich Man who
Visited Her-Queer Morgue incidents.
M. k the young woman who COM
mitted suicide in Central Park last Fri
day, was identified last night by Mrs. Annie
Williams Of Ill West Thirty-sixth street
as Mile Kruger, manicurist. Mrs.
Williams said that Mile Kruger came to
this country from Austria six years ago.
She lived for some time in Washington
and then came to New York, and boarded
with Mrs. Williams. who said that Mile
worked as a maniourist in "a hotel near
Carnegie Hall, on Fifth or Madison ave-
nue."
About nine months ago." said Mrs
Williams, Mile left US and took furnished
room at lO7 East Eighty-fourth street.
There she received a man connected with
prominent business house on Broadway.
When he learned OF Miles condition he
promised to marry her, and they were to
go abroad. l remember Mile telling me
that when next heard from her she would
write from some city in Europe.
II did know the mans name, but l have
forgotten it; but when read that the initials
Il. B. r. were on a carriage that drove to
the Morgue, remembered that they were
the initials Of the man who used to call on
Mile"
The autopsy performed at the Morgue
last Saturday revealed the fact that the
young woman would have become mother
in a couple OF months. Mrs. Williams's
recollection OF the initials Of the man who
used to visit the girl appears to have been
faulty, for the letter which was found In
the Park near the dying girl read
u. r.: Don't forget what you have done
to me. M. II.
Mrs. Williams and her husband were at
the Morgue last night and positively iden-
titled the body. Mrs Williams said she
would do her best to have the girl decently
buried, but feared she could not get enough
money to pay the funeral expenses,
People who live in the rooming house at
107 East Eighty fourth street are positive
that the young woman who committed
suicide in Central Park last Friday was
Mile Kruger. who lived on the third ffsor
with Mrs. Strauss, a dressmaker.
The description of the body in the Morgue
corresponds exactly with the appearance
Of the girl, they say. Mrs. Barry. janitress
Of the house, said that the girl was about
% years old and very pretty. She did
some work for Mrs. Strauss.
According to the janitress. she received
no COMPANY at the house and did not seem
to be acquainted with any young men,
Mrs. Barry recalled, however, that the
girl had quarrel about ten days ago with
a young man who brought ice cream to the
house. He ia reported to have said:
you let others In; willy won't you let
me in?'
The girl was last seen at the house on Friday
morning. About noon Mrs. Barry received
the key Of her room wrapped In slip Of
paper. 1t was delivered by a boy who
looked like a bellboy employed by some
hotel.
The girl was we'll educated and very
quiet around the house. the janitress said.
1t was said at the Morgue last night that
Mile Kruger had been employed at the
barber shop connected with the Bruns-
ninth street. The people at the Brunswick
say that no woman manicurist has been
employed there.
So many curious persons went to the
Morgue yesterday In the hope Of looking
at the girls body that the attendants
were forced to refuse admittance to those
who could not give an adequate rea-
son for wishing to see the body. In most
cases the visitors who were admitted gave
the vaguest OF reasons and denied knowing
anything about the girl when they came
out. The throng began to arrive early in
the morning and kept coming at intervals
all day
Early Ia the afternoon an automobile
hanson stopped at the hospital entrance.
and man and a woman got out. They
walked to the Morgue, followed by the
automobile. The man told Morgue Keeper
Fame that No Thought he miRhe know who
the girl was and wished to make sure
He refused to say anything about his con-
nection with the case and was driven away
after he and his companion had looked at
the body. Just as the man and woman
were leaving a young woman walked up
to the entrance and asked to see the body
When she saw the occupants OF the auto
mobile coming out she ran across the street
and hid in a brickyard until the couple had
driven away.
The young woman refused to give her
name, but said she had important reasons
lot WlbuHlB W bSc tiic oho
knowing the party In the automobile and
became confused when questioned.
second attempt to question the woman
when she left the Morgue also failed. She
again refused to give her name and would
not reveal the reasons for her visit.
The next applicant was a young man
who said he had read the description OF the
girl IN the papers and was sure he had met
her in the Park on Friday afternoon. After
looking at the body the man said he was
positive it was the girl who had spoken
TO him near the Belviderel He said he
was walking in that part Of the Park on
Friday and noticed the girl sitting down.
He said she left her seat as he approached
but came back again almost Immediately
and asked him the way to Third avenue
She thanked him and disappeared in the
crowd Of promenaders. The man told a
connected story and seemed positive Of
his Identification but refused to give his
name. He said he only wished to satisfy
himself that the girl he had met in the
Park and the suicide were the same.