The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-05-07
sPuzzlinq Turnin Suicide
OfWealthy WidoWin
New York.
UNFORTUNATE LOVE
AFFAIR THE CAUSE
Left Pathetic Letter Declaring
She No Longer Had Desire
to Live-Died Uncon-
scious From Bullet
Wound in Her
Head.
lBy Associated Press !

(By Associated Press)
NEW YORK, May 6.-The police Of thu Il
city are puzzled tonight by q new turn
taken in the case Of Mrs. T. Nv. Grav,
said to be tho widow OF q wealthy Chi
| cago3 broker. who committed suicide in
| her apartments at the Hotel Imperial to.
day. The woman left letters addressed u
to Charles II. stoneham, telling him Of &
| her love. and declaring his cruelty IN
conversation with her over the telephone
had induced her to take her life Aftor
\ being absent from his office at A Broad. III
way all day, Charles H Stoneham. q
broker of this cit who was believed to Il
have been the person to whom the letters Y.
were address and so declared by the II
| New Il ork friends of tho dead woman,
returned late tonight to his home, Iii Il
! Jersey City. He denied absolutely that
| he knew Mrs. Gray, or that he was Scon-s8
nected with her case In any way.
never heard Of the woman, !" said
\ Mr.. Stonehanl. 5}8 5 Es 3s $3s898s
He expressed Ignorance Of the suioide,
land declared that the newspaper men
| brought him theB first news Il he. had re-
ceivcd OF the tragedy. GsS III
| "Shes may have been a customer of i
3ours, and In that way may have acc
iquired my address," Mr. Stoneham said.
rhe name IS not at all familiar to-
me. however, and do not think we had L
4 is,ch q person IN New Orleans as d Gus
Mr. Stonehnm declined to discuss his
wherca bouts during the day. He y was
emphatic. however in his d enial that he
4 had never been y the Hotel Imperial
with RS Gray, and, sclared tina he
4 has been at home every MI hit for many
weeks. II f$ III n 4, IT, 5
Found Dying ii Fl otel::
Mrs. Cray who Is described by her
man, was ~ found lying unconscious
before a mirror in her bed
i room, with a bullet wound In her head "a
j and died a few hours later at hospital
| without regaining consclous ess. Let
\ tiers left indicated that she was the vic
4 tim Of an, unfortunate love affair." and
| that although possessed Of ample means
1 she had no desire to live without the d
| man she loved. II 5 S. VI II X
Accompanied u by a man O few years 4
her senior, tho woman appeared at thes
| Imperial Hotel on April goth. The couple
registered as j. w Gray and wife. New
Orlcans,' They went. out together FREE
quently. and the man, was away In the
| day time. but there was nothing about
] them to excite unusual interest. Then
| n watchman was making his rounds
| early to- day, he heard a. NUT ed report u
like a pistol shot In the room occupied
i by the Grays. Looking over the tran n
| som the watchman saw the woman lying
on her face on the floor beside the bed d
| with her hands outstretched. She WIS II
| In her night dress, and a stream Of blood III
was flowing from an ugly wound IN herS
right temple She was alone IN me A II
room The door was forced and the SWo- Ii
n hOSDttQl.
| None of tho hotel employees remember
! having seen Gray during the night ana
! he could not be found around the hotel
at the time OF the shooting. The suite 4
| occupied by the Grays was tho finest
on, the Broadway sido OF the hotel.
Left Letters.
i The woman left four letters One Of
these, which was scaled, was addressed
to "Charles III, Stoneham. A Broadway
| On the back OF 1t was written II wish
/ that no one would open this but the per- 4
| son addressed" a second sealed letter
| was addressed to a storage warehouse,
1 this city. n i
The third letter was unenclosed and
| written on two sheets OF paper. 1t ap-E
peared that one portion had been written
yesterday afternoon and the other sheet
i to-day before the woman shot herself,
The letter began:
! Dear STANDARDIZATION I called Y
you up OH the telephone you talked
so cruelty to mo that went out and II
bought q revolver intending to do IL
then. was brought up In a, convent
l and my religion teaches against such a
thing, but can't stand 1t any long I'LL
err" (IIere, there was a break in the
| letter, and when It was continued 1t
was with different toned again
] and again. have you disappointed me,
| Charley. what in Gods name havehI
done. II you were anxious to get n
| rid or mo that were easy. Why did G
you have me come to New York?
| Here am Ms your wife, II You had
said. Ollie, do not want you TO res
turn, would never have done So
Well, Charley, this Is the last. 1 wish
you all the luck In the world Here
the writer seemed to have paused
again and no more to have been writ.
ten for while. 1t resumed): How
am suffering. / cannot stand y
any longer. It Is now past 4 o. clock
The fourth letter left by the woman
| was found. IT was addressed to Charles
| Sweetheart" and read In part as fol- ]
| lows ~
| love you SO much and to think nave
| TO 60 and leave YOU hate SO 20
die, What little ] have after my bll!s
arc paid. wish to be sent to Olivia
/ Parker, 1929 ST. Andrews Street, New
/ orleans. have n lot OF furniture,
| had shipped from New Orleans, wish
also that returned to New Orleans 70 fi
! olivia Parker, colcrcd girl, al
| have no relations J. III u
/! A bundle of letters addressed 70 Mrs,
/ i. w, Gray" at various places were found
| when the womans effects We're searched.
| on the backs Of two photographs found
! among the letters, &as written tho name II
1. .Charles, ii, stoneham.. the same as on (
one Of the letters left by the woman