The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-05-09

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Again and again have You dIsap-
pointed me. Charley, what in Gods
name have done. If yor were anxicls
to get rid OF me that were easy. Why
did YOU have me come TO New York.
Here | am as your wife If you hai|
said, do not want you to return Il
would never have done so. Well.
Charley, this is the last l wish you
all the luck in lne world
Here the writer seemed to have pa.s-
ed again and no more to have been
written for q while Il resumed:
How | am suffering. cannot stand
1t any longer. 1t is now past tolr
o'clock
A fourth letter left by the woman
was found. which was addressed to-
Charles Sweetheart" and read In part
as follows:
Il love you better than my life. L
love you so much and to think I have
have to go and leave you; hate so
to die. What little | have, after my
bills are paid, | wish to be sent TO
Olivia Parker, 1928, st. Andrews
street, New Orleans. | have a lot of
furniture, | had shipped from New Or
leans. | wish also that returned TO
New ORLEANS, and Olivia Parker, a COL
ored girl, as I have no relations"
This letter was signed, Mrs. Gray"
A bundle of letters addressed to ms.
]. w. Gray" at variosu places, were
found when the woman's effects were
searched. On the backs of two photo
graphs found among the letters was
written the name Charles H. Stone
ham" the same as one of the letters
left by the woman.
Mrs. .Stoneham called at her husbands s
Office during the day and had long
conference with Mr.. Bramberger, her
husbands partner. After she had lett
Bramberger said that Mrs. Stonenam
had read of the shooting in the news
papers and had hurried over from Jer-
sey City to try to keep her husband
from going to the hospital She did
not learn that Mrs. Gray was dead un-
til she reached the Office.
E Bramberger said that when Mrs.
Stoneham left the Office she went to
meet her husband He said that she
had told him she intended to stand by
her husband and do all she could for
him.
+ Mrs. Grace Sanford, who lives at e2
West Sixty-Sixth street, said that she
knew Mrs. Gray very well. She said
that Mrs. Gray's husband who was a
wealthy Chicago man, died in May Of
last year at New Orleans and in Julv
after his death, Mrs Gray came 10
New York and took apartments with
her. She stayed until sometime after
Thanksgiving.
Mrs. Gray met Charles Stoneham in
the early fall" said Mrs. Sanford He
is Jersey City man, married and
with family. A few days ago little
SON of his was drowned, and after the
sons death, he determined to give up
Mrs. Gray. He called her UP and tod
her so. Mrs. Gray threatened to COM
nit suicide unless he returned 10
her."
Boston, Mass, May 6.-The indeati-
ty of Hotel Imperial suicide in New
York as Mrs. J. w. Gray of Chicago
and formerly of New Orleans, was es-
tablished here today by Miss P. Stone,
"a dressmaker of 6S Humboldt avenue,
Roxbury, which address was found
upon letter in the room occupied by
Mrs Gray in the New York hotel.
Miss Stone said she had been a close
friend of the woman for years and had
received letter from her, written from
the Hotel Imperial, only few days
ago Mrs. Gray was the widow, Miss
Stone said, of J. W. Gray, a wealthy
Chicago broker, who died several
years ago.
Before her marriage she lived In
New Orleans. She was a member or a
French family whose name Miss Stone
could not recall today but she was: able
to state that Mrs. Gray had married
sister living in New Orleans and q
brother in Mexico.
New Orleans, May 6.-Mrs. Angy
Parker, living ut 1923 st. Andrews
street. admitted today that she was g
sister of Mrs. j. w. Gray, the hote
Imperial suicide. Miss Olivia Parker
beautiful woman of twenty, "ho
lives with her is The person whom MIS-
GRAY desired her personal effects, tu:
niture and money, to be forwarded
Mrs. Paiker insisted .emphatically that
she aud her daughter were not octo
rocJ.s but white. With respect TO the
references in Mrs. Gray's letter to Div
| ia Parker as a colored girl and hel
statement that she had no relatives
Mrs arker said that her sister eNi
dently desired TO stare their feelings
She said their brother referred 70 IN
the Bo tcn dispatches, died some tim:
ago. Mrs. Parker said fer sister 'sas
norn in Jew Orl a1ns. She came OF ex
ceilent people. She was resred and 2. J.
Gated in the Ursuline Convent. Aboii.
fifteen years ago whel she was -
years old she was married to j. "
Gray, wealthy Chicagoan. She vIsit-
ed here occasionally during the winter
months. Mrs. Parker said Mrs. Gray
husband lavished diamonds and otael
jewelry upon her and that she mus
have had many Of these articles with
her in New York. She said she knew
of Mrs. Gray's affair with Stonehar
He had written her numerous love let.
ters and is said to have promised t(