The Washington herald., 1907-09-21

New York. Sept. 20-After being re-
fused admittance to the sick room of
John Jay White. a retired stock broker,
living at l0S East Fifty-seventh street.
Mrs. Margaret Carter, widow, who, Il
appears. was a friend of Mr.. White.
shot and killed herself to-day in his
house.
Attending Mr.. White at the time the
woman shot herself was a nurse. Frank
L. CleeIand. The woman mad arrived
at the house at O'Clock the previous
evening. and. according to the nurses
story, said she had a message for Mr..
White. and also wanted TO deliver a
package to him. The package subse-
quently proved to contain nothing more
than a pair Of gold sleeve buttons be
longing TO Mr. White. and a 500 bill.
After being told that she could not
| see White. who is i'll with nervous pros
tration, according TO the family the
woman appeared to be ill. and laid
down on a lounge in an adjoining room.
While CIee!and was attending TO Mr.
White in the next room the woman shot
herself in the right temple with a re-
volver she had evidently brought with
her. This was about o'clock in the
morning. She lived only about two
minutes
Mrs. white Not at Home.
Mrs. White was not in the house when
| the shooting occurred. She has been at
Bar Harbor all summer. Her husband
left there about two weeks agd@ and has
been here since. Mrs. White received a
telegram on Thursday afternoon that her
husband was in and needed her, and left
at once on the night express for this
city. She arrived at the house this morn
ing. a few hours after the body Of Mrs.
Carter had been taken away.
In a statement which she made to the
police Of the East Fifty-first street sta
ton late this afternoon. Mrs. White, who
was very much upset at first. said that
she had known the Carter woman for a
good many years, that she had frequently
nursed her husband. and was simply a
friend of the family whom both she and
her husband had befriended. For the
last two years Mrs. Carter had had
studio apartments at Il West Twenty
ninth street These were fitted UP COM
fortabIy. but not elaborately.
Il was said by the janitresS that White
visited her there at times, and that she
understood that Mrs Carter was in re-
/ -
/ far as could be learned to-day Mrs. Car
ter. who was about thirty-eight years old,
and pretty. came here from France about
nineteen years ago. She was an Alsatian.
According to one report her maiden name
[ was Margaret Schoenig. She had known
J the Whites for over eight years.
Dead Woman an :. II. c. A, Worker.
Mrs. White said to-day that she had
first met Mrs. Carter in connection with
some missionary work, and that they
? subsequently became better friends
through the interest both took in the
cause of animals Mrs. Carter, it ap-
pears. was a great lover of animals. and
was a familiar figure in the police courts
( Of the city where she frequently went tc
? press complaints against drivers for abus-
% ing their horses. She became a member
i Of the {. P c. A. several years ago, and
was also interested in the Bide-a-Wet
Home on Lexington avenue. But at botf
places little seemed TO be known about
= the woman to-day, or az least about hel
history.
She apparently had money enough 4
travel abroad. Her negro maid, Eliza
Walters. said that Mrs. Carter had re
Ceiyed 500 a month income from Mr.
. White DR.. George V Foster, who live.
4 at les East Eighteenth street, and who Il
c Mr.. Whites physician, said that he haC
- known Mrs. Carter for about eight years
She then came to him 10 be treated 70
nervousness. She told DR.. Foster tha
o she had separated from her husband be
fore he died and felt like killing herself
y He advised her to take a trip abroad
which she did. Since then he had beer
attending her.
Breaks Down Nursing White.
. DR. Foster said that White, who /
; about forty-fve years old. had been Il
4 bad shape physically for some time. Mrs
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