The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-07

= sJiSf MN a. Gbe standard storags Com
pany, 1881 broadway, has the blll oi ~ i1 iat
iog fnr hin That I wish also returned 20
New Orleans 20 olivia Parker, o0loItHu ns 81" in
as I have no relations. am All a'o"o :"
Sly S safments car be sold to pa, for same same:
and what inohey IL leit ~ ee 5e n,oSnSh 10 LOOK
JoDe tnr ne Mrs. GRAY
On another sheet Of paper, in ink OF two
oolors, this was written ,-.-,
Again and again have YOU disappointed
me, Charlie What IN Gods name nave
dOneY II you we're anxious, 70 stt ~ 10 ry 20
me nat Ts sw eySooyyt, Why. indeed il you
here should never hS w. done 1Ss 20 can do
gqiII You Sl' dtonR wen, Charlie, this is the last
world You know / am your chum and pal
always, and what chu i,Ig.r We haye cannot
stand IL any longer. IL Ia now almost % oiooA'
MANS LOVE LETTERS,
In addition 10 these letters, written by
the a,icide there were number addressed
n her and signed Charlie One under
date Of May !. 1905, read:
My Dear Little Girl; haze ju' Rs rs'P 6rays
little hrown-eyes and don'tworry' n, AseVer'
Still another letter, written on the paper
q Jonasson & Co., ~ Broadway reso as
&kows:
My Dear Little Sweetheart: Went skating
out in Jersey yesterday and feel stl1 ana sore
all over. fhtnKs are deadt9lly dnll mere ere
Nothing but fog and rain and rain ana log,
/ am sorry TO hear that things are going oaa
with you. However, things are oIientebb, t -
and II the year continues as wen, ~ oukht W
be,1t Your own CHARLIE.
Among the photographs In the room 39ip
was one Of a young man WIN I,o q , [Siad
as MIR. Gray In addition there were
two other photographs. One was OF
good looking well dressed young man
seated in a Victoria with driver IN livery.
The other was OF Mrs, Gray herself also m
victoria and looking very handsome ana
animated In the summer costume she
wore. On the back OF the photograph
of the young nan in the victoria was writ
sMr. Charles A, stOneham, Washington
on the back Of the other was
Mrs. Charles A. Stoneham. Washington
The writing in both instances was the
same as that In which Mrs. Gray's iare"eh
communications were written.
Some of the letters 70 Mrs. Gray had been
addressed TO az West Sixty-sixth street
nd forwarded 10 the lmperai hotei'
Hbers were addressed 70 her at Pine Cnn,
sunaPee Lake n a.. and 9t 70 81 nnU that
she had moved about good deal withln
tine mast year Among other letters from
sCbarlies was one showing that Mrs. Gray
had given him $50 TO place on morse ln
the Futurty race, but that ne nay aS,ul a.
the money as he regarded the chances as
too poor.
Mrs. Olivia Gray was a native Of New
Orleans and an octoroon. she was euu-
GATED at the Ursuline convent there ana
Oh Of WAS
married 10 J. W. Gray, a Chicago broker,
who was repute1 to be well on. Gray
has been dead several years and Mrs- Gray
rs Understood TO have had enough money
from his estate to enable her 70 live com
fortably Mrs. Gray was here IN the East
last summer She lived with Mrs Minnie
Grace Sanford at 90 West SiKty-siXth street.
In the winter she went back 70 New UT
leans, where she remained until Apni.
Olivia Parker referred to In her letter
Is a relative, who lives at 1928 St. Andrew
street, New Orleans.
When Mrs. Gray returned 10 New York
in April last she again went to i've with
Mrs. Sanford on West Sixty-sixth street.
Mrs. Sanford was one Of the first 20 go 10
the New York Hospital yesterday morning
after the news that Mrs. Gray had shot
herself became known. Mrs. Sanford said
that Mrs. Gray was at the Sixty sixth street
address until about Thanksgiving last year,
and that she first met Mr.. Stonehem last
fall. Mrs. Sanford also said that when
Mr. Stonehams little son was drowned,
not long ago. Stoneham had called Mrs
Gray up on the telephone and told her that
be could not visit her any more. MIS-
Gray, according 10 Mrs. Sanford, had re-
peatedly threatened 10 commit suicide
because Stoneham did not come 20 see her,
and Mrs Sanford said that she had many
times gone 10 the telephone and begged him
20 come 80 as TO avoid desperate act on
the part Of Mrs. Gray.
man giving the name of Charles A.
Stoneham went TO the New York Hospital
Yesterday said Coroner Scholer last even
Ing sand said that he was going to make
Arrangements for the funeral Of Mrs, Gray,
and that he wanted this done and didn't
want that down and 20 on | left word
there that If he wanted anything in par
ticular done he had better come and see
me He has not been TO me and have
heard nothing from him except what l
was told at the hospital
Charles NJ Maxwell Of the Sta dard
Storage Warehouse at 1881 Broadway, tc
whose care Mrs. Gray had her furniture
cent from New Orleans, called on Coroner
Soholer last evening and said that he
would look after the funeral arrangements
T The Coroner gave the necessary permits and
3 the body was removed from the hospital TO al
qnderaker's shop in Amsterdam avenue
Hlr Maxwell said that he had heard Mrs
Gray had inherited about $4,000 from her
brother. whe died not long ago.
Mrs. Sanford said that Mrs Gray haC
plenty OF money and always PAID her OWL
expenses. ...-s. ..
TERRIBLE, SAYS WIFE.
Al Stonehams house. 81 Clerk street
Jersey City, last night, his wife anC
mother talked quite freely with re-
porter.
sAll this IL terrible for us said IN
younger Mrs. Stoneham. we can't under
stand Il. OF course, over here in Jerse.
City people viii talk and we will never hea
the end Of il. It Is a whole lot Of trouble
sJust last Thursday we buried our eldes
boy, Charles, who was drowned, and nov
comes this scandal. IL Ia simply horrible
IL anything, this last blow Ia worse than tn
death OF the child. / say that becaus
Jersey City is 80 like a village, and tn
tongues Of the neighbors will never ceas
TO wag But don't think ! tainted whe
] was told my husbands name was con
nected with the suicide OF this woman
Charles came home early last night, and lei
the house at ESQ O'Clock this morning, afte
eating breakfast for the frst time sine
our little boy was buried
Don't you think IL queer tie ywQmal
oh Ould have written to himI Isn't h TO
bad II one wishes TO kill oneself over an
other that one can't do II quietly withou
mixing up other peoplei
Naturally we had never heard Of Mn
! Gray, II indeed Charles knew her at al
7 You see he was dWsys home evening
& 10y o'clock. Some one told me that IN
man seen about the hotel with Mrs, Ora