The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-22
REPENTANT LOVER SAVED her
GIRL TU RNED ON THE GAS WEEK
AFTER THE QUARREL.
Hotel Markweli StenOsrapher Wrote In
Diary That George Was 1.-The Limit"
He Went TO Her Boarding House to
Make Up the Night She Tried Suicide.

Miss Fife Record. % years old, stencg-
rapher, employed in the Hotel Maxwell,
at 900 West Forty-ninth street. tried to
kill herself last night with illuminating
gas in the boarding house in which she
lives at 20 West Fifteenth street. II it
hadn't been for George Smith Of s22 West
Eleventh street, the young woman's sweet
heart. Miss Record might have succeeded
in taking her life.
Smith who is a clerk, quarreled with
Miss Record week ago last night, and ever
since she has been morose and out of sorts.
The people at the boarding house knew the
couple were at outs for Smith was nightly
visitor Whenever he called he went direct
to Miss Records room, as he was known at
the house as her fance When he stopped
calling it soon spread through the boarding
house that there had been lovers spat
Miss Record has been employed at the
Maxwell for s3y ersl months ana some
time ago she asked for vacation, saying
she wanted to go to her old home at
Clarified, Pa, where she has brother and
sister She got the vacation and it was
to begin last night. Miss Record bade
good-by to every one she knew at the hotel
and left apparently in better spirits.
SUt WtHJ tlucIp w iiCi cooi oAiie iouoo
and to her room. She spent some time
in writing letters to her brother and sister
in Clarified. Leaving the letters stamped
and ready for the mail, she made prepara-
tions to kill herself. She closed her room
door and shut the two windows tight.
Then she turned on the gas and lay on the
bed fully dressed. She lay there long
enough to become unconscious.
thn hN
wanted to make up. He was allowed to go
direct to Miss Records room. He tapped
on the door and getting no response he
opened the door, which was unlocked
Smiths breath was taken away by the
threw up the windows. Then he began to
veil with all his might. He dashed down
the stairs and ran from the house, crying:
-She's dead, she's dead"
and Mrs. Dressier, who keeps the house,
sent for policeman. Donnelly of the Ten
derloin responded. He saw the girl was
in u lad way and threw her over his
shoulder like sack of -four and rushed her
across the street to the New York Hospital
He left her there for the doctors to attend,
| leaving word that she was a prisoner on
charge of attempted suicide.
Dome ly went back to the house then and
found the letters Miss Record had written
heard OF Smiths wild run from the house
he telephoned to the Tenderloin station to
| have Smith looked up and asked to give
an account of himself Az two detectives
were starting out after him Smith ran
into the West Twentieth street station,
still crying.
| The West Twentieth street police were
| puzzled over his actions, but when they
heard that Smiths trouble was in the Ten
| deroin precinct they telephoned the latter
police and asked them to come and get
Smith, BY the time Smith got to the Ten
! derloin station he had learned that Miss
Record was not dead. That Gained him
some, and he was able to tell about the
quarrel and why he had returned last night.
He said he was so excited over what he had
seen that he was almost distracted. He
said Miss Record was good young woman.
and that it would break his heart II she
did not recover.
Smith is clean cut looking chap and
convinced the police that he was telling