New-York tribune., 1905-07-16
MRS. JANET WILSON SHOT.
ATTEMPT At SUICIDE.
Walter LangdOn Says She Va
Worried About Money.
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Bridgeport. Conn, July 15.-0Irs. Janet WI.
son. who escaped from the Hudson River Hos
pital for the Insane several days ago. shot Esr-
self, probably mortally. tonight at about s
O'Clock. She sat on the edge OF her bed before
a mirror. Near her at the time was seated her
young friend, Walter Langdon. who came to th4
Washington Bridge Tavern with her last Thurs
day.
DR.. Lewis. Of Stratford, was summoned AMI
found Mrs Wilson IN a precarious condition
and unconscious hack was ordered and
taking Mrs. Wilson in his arms. Mr.. LangdOn
carried her downstairs and into the carriage.
They were driven to the Bridgeport Hospital
Mrs. Wilson recovered consciousness on the way
to the hospital and. between her sobA she
pleaded with Mr.. Langdon to save her.
Il want to live! I want to live, Why ala
act so foolshly?'' she moaned-
The physicians at the hospital have been un-
able TO find the bullet, and give only faint hopes
OF her recovery. An internal hemOrrhags ia
feared
Mrs. Wilson'S father. Philip Lowe, OF New
York, and Dr. Wilson. her husband. who q said
to live in Middletown. this State. were tsls-
graphed to. Up 70 a late hour no word had bean
received from Mrs. Wilson's husband. Walter
Langdon, when seen at the hospital tonight
was greatly disturbed. He made the following
statement:
Mrs. Wilson and came to the Washfngtor
Joining rooms our FINANCES were getting low,
and this morning early went 20 New-Tork to
see friend OF Mrs. Wilson's. His mama is
Charley, but without her consent cannot df-
vulge his last name. She had reason 10 expsct
that he would come 20 her financial aid. 7 went
to Brooklyn to see her friend. and he refused
at about $50 o'clock tonight found a man IN
her room who said he was an officer from Dan
serve on her.
I told him to serve them, but he could not
oduCe them. I do not know who this man
was. but he had ordered threa or four drinks
Of whiskey for her, and she was slightly under
the influence OF liquor. When she learned that
this friend Charley had refused TO give her
the edge Of the bed. where she had been eating
some chop suey which had sent 20 Bridge
port for. she placed a revolver TO her breast
and fired Her clothing took fire. 80 close 70
her body did she hold the revolver. SIR. Bailey
slapped the fire out and a physician was called
1 carried Mrs Wilson downstairs 20 the car
riage, and held her all the way % the hospital
will not leave Mrs. Wilson now. no matter
what happens. She needs friend. and while
am placed in very bad light ! am going 70
stay all through now and not desert her till
the end. no matter what that Is.
The revolver with which she shot herself was q
% calibre which I had in my dress suit case.
and 1 never had any idea that she had It Just
before she shot herself she had asked me for a
pencil aud had written on a piece OF newspaDsr
7 note The note read; Charley, you are aIons
responsible for this" No. Charley has not been
told Of Mrs Wilson'S act Let him read about il
in the papers tomorrow.
may have statement 20 make tomorrow
to more fully clear up this awful affair but
without Mrs. Wilson's consent cannot say
more, and she is in no condition to talk to
night.
Mr.. Langdon remained at the hospital all night
waiting anxiously to hear any news from Mrs
Wilson's bedside.
Mrs. Wilson was the daughter OF ex-Congress-
man BurrIll Low. Saturday July l. she escaped
from the Hudson Sanatoriun. at Poughkeepsie.
where she was confined. il was said. because or
a weakness for cocaine. The escape was said to
have caused surprise at the institution. but II
turned out that the woman was assisted IN her
escape by Walter Langdon. son OF the director
Dr. Charles W. Langdon. A few days later the
couple were found at boarding house at Win
sted, Conn
Young Langdon declared then he would stick
to the woman and could not be persuaded 10
return to his home Mrs. Wilson was equally
persistent in declaring that she would keep clear
of her people. The institution. by request. e
was said OF Mr.. Low, made no effort TO take
Mrs. Wilson back. Young Lsngdon and Mrs
Wilson left wInsted on July Is. and went 70
Bridgeport Mrs. Wilson after obtaining a al
vorce from her first husband became natrcn
in a sanatorium at Easton. Penn She remained
there until her marriage to Dr. Claude Z VII
SON