The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-13
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BUT ISBBLIBvDD 70 BH DELLA ".
LYTTEL OF ELMIRA.
From tho Hospital She Sends Three Nsses
to KID MCCOY. Asking HIM 70 Como
to Her Heip-Whs Ghst Her sho d.
clines with Much Calm 70 Disclose.

N. D., tnaC mary dall Oh oyEocuDot WIZ
was shot near Riverside Drive and Noth
street on Friday night. 10 Della ". Lytte'
OF Elmira, who has been living IN Paterson
some three months.
} In Paterson she called herself Violet
Johnson She left Paterson on Wednes-
day. saying that she was going to Syracuse
TO try and effect reconciliation with her
husband. That morning MARY Hall OF
Syracuse" registered at the Vendome here.
Della w. Lyttel Is about s feet 4, weighs
ITO pounds and wore ring with the initials
ID. W. L." as the prisoner does.
She wrote three notes yesterday to Kid
Mccoy, the ex-pugilist, addressing him as
Raymond Selby instead Of Norman Selby.
The first she sent from the New York Hos
pital to the saloon at Broadway and For
tieth street, in which he Is Interested, and
the manager, being unable to find Mccoy.
brought back the letter unopened. Then
the police got it. 1t reads as follows:
FRIEND KID. Can ask you to do favor
for me2 Will you come down at the hospital.
a. need some one to be friend. Kid. I have
had very bad luck. II you read the World
you will find out what I mean. Come down
as soon as you can. They have not probed
for the bullet yet. Ask to see Miss Hall.
West Fifteenth street, New York Hospital
After she Was transferred to Bellevue q
prisoner she wrote second note to Mccoy,
which was returned to her unopened with
the message that Mccoy was out OF town.
This note was as follows:
DEAR KID: l am held as a prisoner at
Bellevue Hospital. l mean the prison at
Bellevue. viii you come to see mo, as am
40 need of friendP The bullet 10 still In
me. They have not probed for 1t yet. Kid.
do come to me as will go crazy II no one
comes to me. ! was in the New York Hos
ptal when they took me prisoner to Bellevue.
p. s. Ask for pass for ward 81.
Miss v. HALL.
Detective Wren Of West Tooth street
had learned that the notes were sent to
Mccoy and went looking for the fighter.
He was informed at the saloon that the
Kid might he found at Saratoga. Wren
went to Bellevue then and had another
talk with Miss Hall. He asked her to let
him see the notes she had written to Mccoy.
The young woman produced them.
? SIS Mccoy a friend Of yours?' asked
Wren.
Maybe he is and maybe he isn't. replied
the young woman. "You can tell your
friends when you get into trouble
when did you see him last2'' Wren
asked.
Couple OF days ago., was the reply.
Then Wren produced the revolver that
was found in the grass. He showed It to
Miss Hall and asked II that was the weapon
that shot her. She said she did not know.
Then she noticed dried spot Of blood
on the revolver and she wanted to know
where the blood came from. Wren talked
to her long time, but when he left her
be was none the wiser.
Before the detective departed she wrote
q third note to Mccoy and turned It over
to Wren to deliver. Mccoy can have 1t
BY visiting the West tooth street station.
This note read:
DEAR KID: Will you come down to Bellevue
prison as ain in trouble and need friend.
MISS V. HALL.
Coroner Soholer is Of the opinion that she
Is telling the truth when she says that she
was shot by young man. The police were
inclined to believe that she had attempted
suicide. and when she was removed to Belle
we Hospital last night she was made q
prisoner on that charge. That was only
done, however for the purpose Of holding
her in the hospital until thorough investl-
CATION can be made.
1t was learned yesterday that the girl
has boon living at the Hotel Vendome on
and on for a couple of months. The hotel
pc op!e say that they know very little about
her She has always registered as Mary
Han" Yet she wore a ring with the initials
50 " L." She also had the return half Of
All excursion ticket from Paterson. The
detectives decided that her home was the
New Jersey town OF troubles and not SYRIA
c,s,.
For brief moment the girl showed dis
position to help the detectives in solving
her identity. That was when they asked
hers ab out the initials ID. w. l.. on the rng.
"Well, IN tell you," she said with the least
sign Of smile. MY name Is not Mary
Hall. The initials stand for my name.'
Tho detectives felt that she was about
to ron them mora and waited. She waited.
too Coaxingly they asked her to All out
the INITIALS. A smile and shake Of the
head. Wouldn't she tell them il her home
W, in Paterson? No, she wouldn't say that
& was or il wasn't.
The girl doesn't seem to be much over
IS years old and she is quite good looking
she also has a mind OF her own. and took
the crosse examination very calmly. She
frs said that she had shot herself and she
stuck to that story for some time. Then
she .aid gentleman friend" had shot her.
lie was about rs years old, handsome and
swell dresser. II will never betray him."
she added dramatically.
The detectives told her CT all the dreadful
things that would happen to her. She
would he arrested for attempting to kill
herself ana she might die Then you
would go to potters field, said one Of
the .icuths. There's where ought to
GO" she replied mournfully.
Way did he shoot your" asked one Of
thea.
"tlni him and find out" she replied.
Vow, III a matter Of fact, didn't you try
"a tiil yorirself BECAUSE he refused to marry
you" said the other sternly.
Forge, the suicide" she replied with q
hrG'. I'm too Young, happy and healthy
to want to die"
There isn't any danger Of thu girl dying.
Two bullets were fired at her They were
an" hn'!ots, ~ calibre. Ono Of them struck
heI Dove the right hip and glanced Of. The
otirer yi,rced the right breast toward the
Rhn1iA "a, 'rbnt buliet hasnf heap ro