The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-31
THE ORANGES.
BLOOMFIELD.
MONTCLAIR
NURSE A SUICIDE
WOMAN WHO EL0PED CAR.
RIES OUT HER THREAT.
Miss Alice M. Harvey Boarded in East
orange-Body Found at White
Plains, N. Y.

The body of Miss Alice M. Harvey, the
trained muse, of East Orange, who eloped
with DR.. John Arthur PATS, who is now
in iail at Blackwell's Island, New York,
for failing TO provide bonds for the support
of his wife, whom he deserted, was found
last night In a vaean lot at White Plains,
N. Y. Beside her body, which had been
in the field several days. was a bottle that
contained ~strychnine, the prescription for
which. the police say, war written by DIT.
PATS. The nurse had drained the contents.
The Rev. William p. Taylor, rector Of
st. Paul's Episcopal Church. East Orange
left today for White Plains, and 1t IS
nrobabIe that he will conduct services
there. 1t is not believed that the body Will
b taken to East Orange.
Miss Harvey has a sister engaged as a
domestic living in Prospect street, East
Orange, and the nurse had a room In a
boarding house conducted by Mrs. Nellie
Anderson at 245 Prospect street, East Or
ange, but VIXEN she learned the police
were after her she left her trunk in the
room and escaped to White Plains, where
she secured a position.
When found In the lot Miss Harvey had
a newspaper clipping In her pocket eaded
"Dr. PATS Is in jail" and beneath 1t she
wrote. II am the woman"
She also had a letter on her person ad-
dressed to Mrs. Anderson. which said;
my Dear Nellie-Recetved letter from
you. Am so sorry o did not enclose
Arthur's detter). 1T is a great grlef 10
me that ] cannot say goodby to him or
send him a letter. The ring 1 am wearing
I would like 10 go to Nab. Everything
else Is for you, my dearest fuend.
ALICE M. HARVEY
Sergeant Hector, of the East Orange
police. secured a cine as to where the
purca boH heap living i'm East OranXR and
intended placing her under arrest when
she heard about 1t. and she quickly packed
a few belongings in n small grip and pre-
pnred to leave. Before going she went to
to commit suicide, declaring she would
kill herself before she would allow the
police to get her. Miss Harvey begged
Mrs. Anderson to make a funeral shrold
burial, but not a costly one. She then
showed the boarding mistress the bottle
OF poison. She told Mrs. Anderson that
all her effects would be left to her. and
then departed in a hurry, leaving the
trunk in her room.
The nurse was about thirty-hve wears
old. Ia OF English birth. and besides the
East Orange sister has several living il
London with her mother.
When the body of the murdered woman
was found in the Five Corners pond at
Harrison and a description. OF her pub
lished in the newspapers. Chief Of Police
laBll. OI EubL OldltSG, AZ us NAho
thought 1t was the nurse and viewed the
body Mt the morgue, but saw 1t WAS not
the nurse.
Miss Harvey eloped with DR.. PATS re-
Gently, and the affair caused n sensation
at the time. The doctor came from the
South about six weeks ago with his wife
and stopped at the Wsldorf-Astoria In
New York city, where he left his wife
penniless. An attachment had sprung up
between him and Miss Harvey. The wife
started to do some detective work and
learned that her husband and the nurse
were living in a boarding house in Wash
.patap~street. this city. She secured a
warrant from Police Judge Howell and
the husband was arrested, later being
taken to New York and he was sent TO
Blackwells Island three weeks ago, as he
was unable to provide the necessary
bonds.
The nurse then went to live with Mrs.
Anderson in East Orange. Miss Harvey
eome to this country from England a little
more than n year ago. h graduated from
q college for nurses in London, and While
there mad trouble with her love affairs with
a doctor and left the country for America