New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-26
STOPS SUICIDES BURIAL.
CALLED CORRESPONDENT.
Wife, Suing n. L. Cary for DiUOrce,
Disputes Girls Name.

Before the funeral Of Martha Bond. who shot
her dog at her apartments at New-Rochelle be-
iC Objectionable to the other tenants
and then killed herself by drinking carboliC acid,
could go on. Arthur L. Cary. president Of the
Fifth Avenue Library Society. OF No. % Fifth
ave, and a member of the NewRCchele and
Brooklyn yacht clubs, had to make some expla-
nations to Coroner Wiesendanger and the New
Rochelle health authorities According to the
arrangements the funeral was to have been this
morning and the body was TO have been quietly
buried in the local cemetery. But yesterday
afternoon a we'll dressed went TO the
morgue and said she was Mrs. Arthur l. Carey
and that the dead woman was not Martha Bond.
but Margaret Haulon. formerly OF Cincinnati.
and that she was the correspondent named by
her In a suit for absolute divorce from Cary.
now pending in the Supreme Court
As soon as Mrs. Cary told DR.. Codding that
Bond not the girls true name. he revoked
the death certificate until thorough investiga-
tion could be made. Mrs. Cary told DR.. Cod
ding that she had come to New Rochelle merely
to make sure that the dead girl was Margaret
Hanon. and. if so. having it recorded. so that
the records would show what had become of her
when her divorce action was brought to trial
At the New-Rochelle apartment house il was
said by Cary and his sister that Miss Bond
merely roomed there. They said she took her
life because OF trouble with the janitor about
her dog. Some other tenants objected to Miss
Bonds pet and the jantor had threatened to
kill him. Miss Bond took the dog out that night
and the Carys heard two shots Then Miss
Bond returned to the apartment crying. and
half an hour later went into the bathroom and
drank the carbolic acid. The Carys gave the
girls name to Coroner Wiesendanger as Martha
Bond.
According TO the papers on file in the divorce
suit Mrs Cary asks for absolute decree with
$50 week alimony and counsel fees. Under
an order of Magistrate Mayo Cary is paying his
wife's living expenses until the case comes
to trial. In her affidavit Mrs. Cary charges her
husband with misconduct aboard the yacht
Waneta and other places with woman known
as Martha Hanlon. According to the papers
Miss Hanlon has father and brother living in
Cincinnati. TIE police of New-Rochele were
endeavoring to communicate with them last
night
Mrs. Cary said she did not blame Miss HanlOn
go much because her husband had told the girl
when he formed her acquaintance four years
ago in Cincinnati that he had a legal separation
The police believe that Miss Hanlon killed her
self rather than so the witness stand and
testify in the divorce proceedings. Miss HanIon
made n confession. which filed with the
other papers in the divorce case.
appeared before Coroner Wiesendange- and re-
iterated that to the best OF his knowledge and
belief the woman's name was Martha Bond. He
said that when he met her In Cincinnati that
was the name she gave She left no letters
but the coroner found that her baggage was
tagged Martha Bond" Cary said that she
assumed the name Hanlon after she came TO
New-York. and that the he gave the
name Of Bond was because he wanted her buried
under her real name.
Coroner Wiesendanger telegraphed to the
police iii Cincinnati for information about Miss
Bond and her relatives. he said tonight
am convinced that there has been no fouI
play ana that it is only an ordinary case OF
suicide due TO dependency and trouble per-
haps over being mixed up in the divorce ease
postpone the funeral until Wednesday. In the
meanwhile I expect to hear from her relatives
in Cincinnati.
Cary says his wife Minnie a. Donohue
an actress. He Gays he intends to fight the
divorce case and expects to win.
Mrs. Cary brought her suit for divorce last
August Late in July Mr.. Cary appeared in
response to a suit for Ton-support. AT that
time he said that he had income Of $1,000
4 year. but only wished to pay $40 week for
his wise's support. After some hagging the
amount was raised to $3.50 a week. He said
he lived on his yacht the Waneta, it
cheaper than living on shore.
Mr. Cary said that when ne first met the girl
she was a cashier I'm a restaurant in Cincinnati.
and that he had found better position for her
here > liter her health had failed and as he
felt responsible for her being here. he had given
her n home with himself and his sister. rather
than see her turned adrift.