The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-10
MRS. GROVER ATTEMPTS
 SUICIDE IN NEW YOEK
CREATED SCENES AT WRITE HOUSE AND AT OYS-
 TER BAK.

Requested to Leave Capitol Just Prior
 to the Roosevelt-Longworth Wedding
 Declares the President is Her Only
 Relative--In Letter Sine Begs That
 He be Notified by Telepbone-AH She
 Hns She Leaves to Him.
 New York, Dec. 9.--Lulu B, Grover, | fJrty-fve years old, and who had de- l scribed herself as a magazine writer, was removed to a hospital tonight suf- fering from chloroform poisoning. Her i condition was said to be critical. There was some doubt as to the iden- tity of the woman who for month past has occupied an apartment on Lexington avenue, The police said she was Mrs. Grover Who just prior to the Roosevelt -LongWorth wedding was asked to leave the White House, and wh5 later attempted to $ e the president at oyster Bay Letters left by the woman bear this out To the secret service men Mrs. Grover said at the time that she was a magazine writer. She left a letter asking that the pres Eens be notified.
 Mrs. Grover who is a widow, lived alone, but had made friends with her neishbors, one of whom was attract ed by groans from the Woman's apart ment late to-day She found Mrs. Gro ver unconscious on the floor of her bathroom. When the woman recovered her senses she said Let me alone, l wish to die, There is no one to blame, '
 A physician discovered that Mrs. Grover ha taken a quantity of chlo- roform, and administered an antidote. She was taken to hospital
 When the police visited the house they founi on a table in the parlor two letters, one sealed and the other open. The sealed letter read as fol- lows:
 Saturday Night, Dec 8, 'O6 "Io the Coroner or the First Police Of
 fcer That Finds My Body Here.
 T beg of you to telephone to Presi- dent Theodore Roosevelt He will have my body cremated. l have written to him, have made my will, and all I have is his He will have everything at tended to, just as I wish to be, right. He knows where to find everything.
 Please find enclosed five dollars and 9 thousand thanks for your kindness. Please do not let my poor kittens be or annoyed. President Roose- welt will take them ast soon as he re- ceives my letter l mailed tonight to him. Please let them stay here until then.
 My heart is broken, So I take my life in the familiar way l know by drinking chloroform. No one Is to blame but myself. I trust my spirit and future life to a merciful and lov- ing God, who knows and judges our sorrow.
 Lulu B. Grover.
 ''2o69 Lexington avenue"
 The second letter bore no date and was unaddressed. It reads as follows:
 T feel so sorry for the nervous shock my death here in this house will cause Mrs, Lyons and several.
 Dear Mrs, Taft has made my home such a pleasant one while here. They welcomed me with glad, kind hearts when 1 moved here, and have done allI a lady could do to make my homeI pleasant. l am so sorry to shock them. Forgive me, God will, l am sure
 T hope Mir. Kennystone, the owner. | will forgive me for taking my life in his house. this little home, l like so well. Good bye, best wishes to you all
 At the hospital atcharge of attempted suicide was made against Mrs. Grover Questioned as to what had influenced her actions she refused any explanation other than to say:
 My heart is broken"
 When asked who should be notified in | the event of her death, she replied:
 "There is only one person, and that is my relative, President Roosevelt"
 When she was asked if she had been ordered out of the White House, and was questioned at oyster Bay by sec- ret service agents, she sai1:
 "No, that is not so. l was never ar rested. I was not even there. As to my being in Washington at the time of the Roosevelt -Longworth wedding that also is false"
 Mrs. Grover also said that she had no in this city
 CORNERSTONE LAID