The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-13
GIRL WHO is SHOT WON'T TELL
Init rs BELIEVED TO RE DELLA W.
LYTTEL or ELMIRA.
Grom the Hospital She Sends Three Notes
to Kid Mccoy, Asking Him-ts Come
TO Her Heip-Whs shot Her she De
c,Iues with Much Calm - D1sclose.

to Her Help-Who ShOt Her She Dc.
c,Iues with Much Calm - Dssciose.
There ia not much doubt In Paterson,
n j., that MARY Hall OF syracuse.' who
ras shot near Riverside Drive and 10th
.treet on Friday night. b Della w. Lyttel
n Elmra, who has been living In Paterson
, acme three months.
IN Patterson she called herself Violet
Johnson. She left Paterson On Wednes-
day. saying that abe was going to Syracuse
N try and effect o reconciliation with her
husband. That morning MARY Hall Of
syracuse" registered stthe Vendome here.
Della W. Lyttel u about fest 4. weighs
no pounds and wore a ring with the initials
ID W. L. as the prisoner does.
The girl wrote three notes yesterday to Kid
Mccoy, the ex-pustlist, addressing him ~
RAYMOND Selby instead Of Norman.
The first she sent from the New York Hos
p,al TO the saloon at Broadway and For
teth street, In which he Is interested, and
the mana ger, being unable to find Mccoy,
brought back the letter unopened Then
the police got it. 1t reads as follows:
FRIEND KID: Can l ask you to do favor
for me? VIII you come down at the hospital.
"A need some one to be a friend. Kid. have
had very bad luck. II you read the World
YOU will find out what I mean. Como down
a soon as you can. They have not probed
for the bullet yet. Ask TO see Miss Hall.
West Fifteenth street. New York Hospital.
After she was transferred to Bellevue .
prisoner she wrote a second note 70 Mccoy,
which was returned to her unopened with
the message that Mccoy was out Of town.
This note was as follows
DEAR KID: ! am held a. . prisoner At
Bellevue Hospital. mean the prison at
Bellevue. WIN you come to go me. a. ] am
In need Of friendi The bullet Is stu In
do come to me As win 60 CRAZY II no one
comes to me. was In the New York Hos
pltal when they took me prisoner to Bellevue.
P. s. Ask for pass for ward u.
Miss v. HALL.
Detective Wren Of West tooth street
rad learned that the notes wers sent to
Mccoy and went looking for tho fighter.
but didn't find him. Wren went to
Bellevue then and had another talk with
Miss Hall. He asked her TO let him see
the notes abe had written 10 Mccoy. The
young woman produced them.
is Mccoy q frisud Of yous7' asked
Wren.
Maybe he Is and maybe he isn't. replied
The young woman. you can tell your
friends when you get into trouble
when did you 80 him lasta' Wren
asked.
Couple Of days ago. was the reply
Then Wren produced the revolver that
was found In the grass near where
the girl ives shot. He showed II to Miss
Hall and asked II. that was the weapon
, that shot her, she said she did not know.
Then she noticed q dried spot OF blood
on the revolver and she wanted TO know.
whore the blood came from. Wren talked
/ to her long time. but when he left her
be was mono tho wiser
Before the detective departed she wrote
/, . third note to Mccoy and turned It over
TO Wren to deliver. Mccoy can have 1t
by visiting the West tooth street station.
This note read;
DsAa KID: wiz you come down to Bellevue
prison. as I am In trouble and need friend,
Miss V. HALL.
. II was learned yesterday that the girl
has been at tho Hotel Vendome on
and on for q couple Of months. The hotal
people say that they know very little about
her. She has always registered as MARY
Hail. She also had the return half. Of
an excursion ticket from Paterson.
For brief moment the girl showed dis
position to help the detectives in solving
her identity. That was when they asked
here about the initials OWL on the mig
well, III tell you,' she said with the least
sign of smile. my name IL not Mary
Hall. The initials stand for my name
The girl doesn't seem to b much over
10 years old, and she 10 quite good looking.
She also has mind Of her own. and took
I the eross-exLu.ination very calmly. She
xdrst said that she had shot herself and she
stuck to that story for some time. Then
she said gentleman friend had shot her.
He was about Is years old, handsome and
a swell dresser Il will neverbetray him.
she added dramatically.
+ The detectives told her Of all the dreadful
things that would happen to her. She
would be arrested for attempting to hll
herself and she might die. Then you
would 60 to potter's field said ono OF
the sleuths. "There's where I ought to
CO. she replied mournfully.
why did he shoot your asked ono OF
them
Find him and find out" she replied.
Nov. as matter Of fact, didn't you try
to kill yourself because he refused to marry
your said the other sternly.
Forget the suicide she replied with
laugh. I'm too young, happy and healthy
to want to die"
There isn't any danger Of ths girl dying.
Two bullets were fred at her. They wore
ANAL bullets, .22 calibre. One Of them struck
her above the right hip and glanced OF. The
other pierced the right breast toward tho
shoulder. That bullet hasn't been re-
moved
John Shea. the cabman who drove the
girl from the Hotel Vendome, Gays she told
him to lake her to 10th street and Riverside
Drive. When he stopped she got out and
walked up about . block A man stepped
Up to her and fired two Shots. Then he ran.
,ide says he hasn't any idea what the man
looked like.
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