The San Francisco call., 1904-02-20
HER GRTEF WAS PTTIFUL.

Thursday afternoon Warren died. Miss
Murnane was summoned from her work
and her grief was pitiful. She was not
allowed to see the body at the house
and later in the evening went with her
sister to the undertaking parlOrs where
IL lay The undertakers asked her 10
wait until the morning to see the
corpse, as the body was too wasted 70
gaze upon. Miss Murnanc insisted, but
was finally persuaded by her sister to
wait. The two went to a restaurant
and procured something TO eat. At the
table Nellie Murnane told her sister
that she was despOndent and was go
ing to take her own life. After con-
siderable persuasion she promised not
to take any such course, and when she
left her sister at $3.50 o'clock to go TO
her room in the Maryland she seemed
TO have abandoned all desire to end
her life and her sister left feeling that
she would not carry out her threat.
Yesterday morning landlord Fulmer
Carlton and his wife smelled gas and
on opening the door of Miss Murnane' 5
room discovered the young woman lying
! IN bed with a rubber tube leading from
4 the gas jet into her mouth. The win
/ dows were wide open, but the gas re-
/ NAMED in the room. The suicide was
/ deliberately planned. and when DR..
Poole was summoned by the landlord
/ life was extinct The Coroner was no
tilted. but by the request of friends of
the dead girl the corpse was not taken
/ TO the MOrgue, but was removed to a
/ local undertaking blishment.
May v. Murnane, the sister Of the
/ dead girl stated that her sister was of
/ an exceedingly mOrOse and melancholy
/ disposition and on several other oc-
4 casions had threatened to take her life.
She was Of such a disposition that any
r. H.
/ ing her TO talk of committing suicide.
Nellie Murnane was 80 years of age
! and a native of Virginia City, New,
where her mother and father reside.
They have been sent for and will ar
rive in time for the funeral
Warren, the dead woman's intended
husband, was about 40 years of age
and was formerly employed as an en-
gineer at the Pacific Planning Mill, on
Berry street. near Fifth. He was a
member Of the Stationary Engineers
Union and viii be buried under the
auspices Of that organization.
GIRLS MYSTERIOUS DEATH.
Miss Annie Rohde. a Danish girl
aged % years, was found dead from
gas asphyxiation in her room at tho
Grand Southern Hotel, Seventh and
Mission streets, yesterday morning
Whether her death was due to accident
] OF
The stopcock on one of the gas jets
was found turned partly on and the
room was filled with the deadly fumes
OF gas.
Miss Rohde, who had lived in the
| house for some time, entered her room
/ last night in company with a young
man. This was about 8 o'clock. No one
saw the man leave her room, but the
landlady, Mrs. Anvassie, thinks that ii
! was late.
Yesterday morning at O'clock the
! employer Of Miss Rohde, =. Weinberg,
a tailor of 40 McAllister street, sent
Fred Cousins. his Office boy, to the
/ Grand Southern to ascertain why Miss
Rohde did not show up for work.
Cousins met the bedmaker, Mrs. j. w.
Butcher and the two went to the young
woman's room. Miss Rohde was found
living on the floor partly dressed, not
/ vet dead. The ambulance was sum-
/ moned, but before it reached the place
the girls life was gone.
E. Weinberg, the employer Of the
J young woman, says that but for one