Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-05-07
DESPONDENT WOMAN
COMMITTED SUICIDE
Upbraids Man In Letter Before
She Ended Her Life.
RESIDED AT THE FINEST HOTEL
Apparently the Couple Was Happy an

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the Woman's Tragic Death Revealed
Her Secret-Former Home In City
of New Orleans.
New York, May Ga handsome wo
man about % years old, who was sup
posed to be Mrs. j. w. Gray, of New
Orleans, attempted to commit suicide
early today in a room at the Hote.
Imperial by shooting. She was found
in an unconscious and extremely seri-
Gus condition, and was removed to a
hospital. The surgeons there say
there is but little chance for recovery.
Accompanied by a man few years
her senior, the woman appeared at the
Imperial April 90 The couple reg
istered as j. W. Gray and wife, New
Orleans.
The woman died at the hospital
without recovering consciousness.
None of the employees of the hotel
remember to have seen Gray during
the night, and he could not be found
around the hotel at the time of the
shooting. The suite occupied by the
Grays was the finest on the Broadway
side of the hotel.
The woman left four letters, one of
these was sealed, addressed to Chas.
II. Stoneham, A Broadway. On the
back of it was written:
Il wish that no one would open this
but the person addressed"
A second sealed letter was ad-
dressed to a storage warehouse, this
city.
The third letter was unenclOsed, and
written on two sheets of paper. 1t
appeared that one portion had been
written yesterday afternoon and the
other sheet early today before the wo
man shot herself. The letter began:
Dear Sweetheart: When | called
you up on the telephone you talked
SO cruelty to me that | went out
and bought revolver intending to
do it then. ! was brought up in
convent and my religion teaches
against such things, but | can't stand
it any longer
Here there was break in the let.
ter and when it was continued it was
in different ink. Again and again
you have disappointed me, Charley.
What in Gods name have l done? IL
you were anxious to get rid of me
that were easy. Why did you have
me to come to New York? Here 1
am as your wife. If you had said,
'Ollie, do not want you to return, |
would never have done so. Well
Charley, this is the last. l wish you
all the luck in the world
Here the writer seemed to have
paused again, and no more seems to
have been written for awhile. She
resumed:
How | am suffering! l cannot stand
it any longer. 1t is now past O'clock
A fourth letter left by the woman
was found which was addressed to
Charles Sweetheart" and read as fol
lows:
L love you better than my life. /
love you SO much; and to think have
to go and leave you'll hate so to die.
What little | have after my bills are
paid | wish to be sent to Olivia Park
er, 1928, st. Andrews street, New Or
leans. have a lot furniture /
had shipped from New Orleans. ]
wish also that returned to New Or,
leans to Olivia Parker, a negro girl.
| have no relatives"
This letter was signed Mrs. Gray"
A bundle of letters addressed to Mrs.
]. w. Gray" at various places were
found when the woman's effects were
searched. On the back of two photo
graphs found among her letters was
written the name Charlie H. Stone
ham, the same as on the letters left
by the woman.
At the offices of o. F. Jonassen &
Co., mining brokers at Al Broadway,
it was said that Charles H. Stoneham
was member of the firm. A member
of the firm said that Stoneham was
married and lived in Jersey City.