The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-08
WOMAN DEAD, DOCTOR HELD
SIZE VASA CHARITY Worker, HE
UiDBFEN HOSPITAL NTERNE
Her Face BADLY Dlscolored, and He ADMITS
striking Her. but says She Dlcd OF
Kidney Dlsease-They Had been Inv
Ing -Four Days Mt Cheap Hotel.

ing -Four Days Mt a Cheap Hotel.
Clnrence Mcdonald, NJ. D., who regis
tered last Friday with a woman past middle
age at the Adelphi Hotel, 40 West Twenty
third street. as Mr.. and Mrs. John Elby.
came into the hotel Office at $50 o'clock
Yesterday morning and said TO the pro-
prietor.
MY wife has just died OF kidney trouble.
She has been a chronic sufferer for years.
The proprietor went with him TO his
room. on the third noor. The woman was
living on the bed on her back, partly dressed
Her face was discoloed. Both eyee were
swollen and black and blue. Below the
right eve was slight cut, and there we're
bruises on other parts Of the face
Policeman Allingham was called in and
arrested -Elby.' An ambulance surgeon
found that the body was warm and gave
it as his opinion that the woman could not
have been dead more than an hour or two.
The prisoner gave his real name at tho
West Twentieth street station and said that
he mad recently been an inferno IN one OF
tho institutions on Randalfs lsiand. ne
dead woman. he said, Vas Mrs hithaue'
the wife uf a Druggist IN LODI y; D. ne
admitted having struck her in the race,
but Tint. he said was on Friday and had
nothing to do with her death
4 was graduated three years ago from
the College OF Physicians and Surgeons
IN Baltimore said DR. Mcdonald.
was at Randall'- Island until five months
ago Now | live az Mills Hotel No. l. IN
! Blocker street
-I met Mrs. Himade several months ago
and became attached TO her she was
living in a boarding house IN Lexington
avenue and was employed by the Charity
I n. .rafss t..Ft
divorce, and if she had succeeded we were
to have been married.
Cart Handy asked why he had struck
the woman. He said that he had been
drinking and was irresponslpie' ne asked
her To do something, he could not remem-
Der what. she refused and he slapped her
face Every physician, he SAID, knows
that the skin Of a person suneThg from
nephrits discolors very easily ana that
was WHY the slight blow which he had
struck had made her face look so bad;
Her physical condition also, he said, would
largely account for other discoloratons
on her body.
He told Capt. Handy that he had left
the hotel early in the morning to buy
paper and get drink. Mrs. Himade was
alive then and apparently in her usual
health While out he decided 10 take u
little air. got on an elevated train and rode
to the Battery and back, and when he re-
turned TO his room found the woman dead.
on a charge Of homicide pending an au-
topsy, which will be made to-day. Nc
Donald is short and rather stout. has
large head. with bnshy hair and a small
light ruustache. His fingers are deeply
stained with nicotine.
The woman who keeps the boarding
house in Lexington avenue says that Nc
Donald had until few months ago, lived
there of and on for seven or eight years;
He comes. this woman said, OF a GOOD
family in Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia. she
also said that he was the young man who
attempted TO swim across the East River
to Randall'5 Island from the Mahattan
side one night and was rescued by police
man when he was drowning. 1t was her
opinion that he lost his Job on the island
on account OF this e-capade.
Mrs. Himadc cano to live at the house
last October. She aid that she had come
TO New York TO do prison work, She did
some work, this woman sald. for the Prison
Association, in East Fifteenth street, and
also for the Charity Organization Society.
She represented that she had taken course
in the School Of Philanthropy. She lett
the Lexington avenue house with Dr. Nc
Donald in December.
II was said that Mr, Himade was a cousin
| Of DR.. Elizabeth Cameron Of $50 Clinton
avenue. Brooklyn. Al DR.. Cameron's home
/ 1t was said last night that she did not care TO
Say ANYTHING about Mrs. Himade.
William Himade is a druggist at Lodi. He
said that he married Mrs. Elizabeth Turner.
widow OF a Wilmington, Del, lawyer, IN
/ Brooklyn, in 1900. He had never lived
| with her. he said, and didn't know whether
/ he would be able to recognize her
! Mrs Himade's mother u Mrs. Sarah Smith
/ Of Ashury Park. Her three children by her
first husband are living with the mother.