The Washington times., 1905-09-14
WOMAN'S CUNNING
DESTROYED CLUES
TO HER IDENTITY
Not Likely That Suicide
Was Native WASH
ingtonian.
BODY LIES UNCLAIMED
Killed Herself in New York,
Saying Body Would Be
Taken.
BODY LIES UNCLAIMED

NEW YORK. Sept. 14-If Miss A. A.
WIdey." of Washington. who deliber-
ately ended her life in the Manhattan
Hotel. notified some friend or acquaint-
ance or her intention TO commit suicide,
That person has not yet appeared, and
her identity remains a mystery.
Miss Wildey" in her last message.
wrote. Body will be called for" and in.
dications in her room at the hotel show
ed that she had spent the last hours
CT her life in writing letters. That they
were mailed is evident. but as yet no
one to whom she wrote has turned up.
No one believes that the young worn-
ans name was Miss A A. wildey. That
she did not come from any great dis
tance Is shown by the state of cloth
ing. her linen being as fresh in appear
ance as IL just put on, and by the fact
that her satchel contained no linen such
as 1t would be reasonable to suppose
she would carry if she had contem-
plated journey.
Besides. there were no checks for
trunks or baggage of any kind found In
her room. nor was there any dust. such
as Is usually found on travellers by rail
on her hat CT clothes.
Laudanum and Pistol.
Miss Wildey" evidently went to the
hotel determined to end her life and for
no other purpose She had with her
a bottle Of laudanum and a new revol-
yer with full box of cartridges II
one means failed. she would accomplish
her intention by the other.
The evidence in the room showed that
she had taken the poison first. but that
the dose was too large It failed She
than ha6
bullet ending her troubles.
IL she was in deep trouble. her man
ner did not show IL when she arrived
at the hotel on Tuesday evening She
entered quietly, was not distressed or
asked for a room, which was unhes-
1tatfngly given her
Nothing occurred in her room that
employees. The shot that ended her life
was not heard, and when her body was
discovered. she had been dead at least
eight hours She had planned that her
that had evidently been on her cloth
ing had been removed ands destroyed
A pair OF scissors in her handbag had
been taken with her for this purpose
A Laundry Mark.
But there remained on one OF the
skirts the letter b." a laundry mark.
| which she had missed The makers
| names on her cloak, rain coat and hat
had been cut OF, and there was abso-
| lutely nothing in the way Of printed or
| written matter in her handbag. Even
her black kid gloves contained no marks
that could be used as a means Of identi-
| fication.
She had little money with her, only
S1o.12 being found in her hand bag. q
| fact leading to the belief that she went
/ TO the hotel for but one purpose and
that to be accomplished quickly.
/ The police OF the East Fifty-frst
| street station acknowledge that they are
| completely baffied by the woman's cir
| cumspection. She acted with the cum
| ming of insanity-for alienists declare
the act of suicide is proof OF insanity
| in eliminating every clue TO her identity.
She did not register at the Manhattan
Hotel with her own hand Her name
| was entered in the register by one OF
the clerks, following the custom OF
hotels in receiving a card from wom00
patrons. The hotel management does
not recall whether Miss Wildey''-if
that was her name-preSented a card
or told her name ard address to the
page wEo acceptS registrattou-
| No one has ca ser az the hotel.
the police station or the undertaking
establishment to make inquiry concern
ing the body up TO this writing