The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-07
LEAPED FROM HOTEL WINDOW
DOROTHY LOVE, PERHAPS 4.
on ORTS GIRL, A SUICIDE.

She Was Picked Up Fatally Injured on
Shed noof-Not known at Address She
Gave Daughter OF DIR. I. N. Love.
Dorothy Love. who said she was tho
daughter Of the late DR.. |. n. Love OF st.
Louis and New York, jumped early yester-
day morning from the third story window
of the Sterling Hotel on the southwest cor
ner Of Seventh avenue and Fiftieth street.
She died late in the afternoon at Bellevue
Hospital
1t was at first believed that abe was a
girl who had figured in the chorus of The
Vanderbilt Cup at the Broadway Theatre,
but a girl who said she had been the maid
of Maggie Love. The Vanderbilt Cup"
chorus girl, went to the Morgue last night
and said the body OF the dead girl was not
that Of her former employer.
The girl went TO the hotel on Thursday
afternoon with William n. McGuckin of
70 Lenox avenue who. Coroner Shrady said
last night. ia the son of the proprietor Of the
Hotel Balmoral at that address They
registered az W. H. Wilson and wife of
Rochester. Charles W. Wayne, the mana
ger of the Sterling, said yesterday that
neither of them had been drinking when
they arrived at the hotel and that they drank
little during the evening Coroner Shrady
saws he has learned that they sent for two
absinthes, four drinks of whiskey altogether
in the course Of the evening.
The couple were assigned to a room on
the third floor and ordered dinner served
in their room. The bell boy who served
the last round OF drinks told the Coroner
that he heard the girl say to the man, "Oh.
don't 90 way and leave me
Xothi,g NOR, was heard from them
.J,l''.s o,,.a,. - ,ho n,o,rinr whon
until ABOUT . o cIoch III I'VE u "l,ie' ",I
the night clerk, sitting at his desk on the
second floor, heard a crash outside as though
a heayv bodv had fallen.
rLa oLarL ononod tbo window and saw
% ~ .hor.aF ~ tbo side
Miss Love Iylhg on the rooi Oh III" sue
entrance IN tn" FlIleth street side oil
the hotel. a little below the second floor.
A Roosevelt Hospttal ambulance surgeon
- oninian ,hot tbe rfrl vas hut SLIGHTLY
h,r, She was takcn to BeIIs,,,e Hosnitai
where she regained consciousness long
enough to saw that she lived at 800 West
FiSty-frst street and that she was glad that
she was going to die.
After Miss Love was found unconscious
on the balcony, the clerk ran TO tho room
above. Breaking in the door, he says,
he found NcGuCkin sleeping heavily and
apparently without knowledge Of what had
hanDened, McGuCkin was taken into the
room where the injured girl was lying.
Coroner Ghrady SAYS that McGuckin acted
in a hys,erical manner. First he cried out,
aOh why did Won do it, Then he laughed
wildly,
McIiuckin was taken later to the West
Forty-spventh street police station and
locked nm as a "susDicious person"
When arraiqped in the West Side
court be was discharged, as there was
nothing In show that he was in anv
Wv yssnonsihle for the girls act. When
II wa = lna rned that Dorothy Love was dead
No eeort was made 10 r%earTest him, and the
noIice ssv that unIess the Coroner wants
kim he viii not ba troubled. The Coroner
saws he will decide nothing until after the
ontonsy on the siri's body today.
A. Tie hosnit9i Miss Love said that she
vos rho damghtor Of DIR, |. n. Love of 81.
louis and Nav York. who died of ~apoplexv
~ lime ~ ioos. on board the Aurania, while
rat,rninq from England. McGuckin con-
armed Tie girls statement when the police
rf,astionad Elm about his companion.
Though the girl did not live at the time
IF her death al the address she gave, having
rooved some months ago. the police traced
hor throngh il 10 the Jefferson. in West
Fiftv-d RAT street The manager there said
that until two months ago letters addressed