The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-20
SUICIDE OF
WOMAN Is
A MYSTERY
Mrs. Carter Kills Herself in
Home Of John ]. White,
Jr., Rich New Yorker.

NEW YORK, Sept. 20.-After plead
ing in vain throughout all of last night
that she be permitted to see John j
White, jr.. of 103 West Fifty-seventh
street, a wealthy man, at whose house
she had called, Mrs. Margaret Carter
shot and killed herself today. She died
in a room adjoining that in which
White was in bed, and, according to his
attendants, very i'll.
Mrs. Carter was about AZ years old
She is said to have had a good social
standing and a friend of Elbridge T.
Gerry's family. She was a member of
several charitable associations.
She went to Whites home last night
and asked to see him, saying she had
a package for him. She seemed to be
greatly agitaued and almost collapsed
when told that White was too i'll to
see her. She was then taken into the
house and conducted to a room adjoin-
ing that in which White was reported
to be i'll. She paced the floor of this
room for hours and was unable to calm
herself.
Toward midnight she lay down for a
while. When she arose she resumed
her pleadings to be permitted to see
White. She was told again hat White
was too i'll to see her then. hut that
she might see him some other time.
Then she resumed her pacing of the
floor, which continued until just before
dawn, when a pistol shot was heard,
A servant ran to the room and found
Mrs. Carter dead on the floor with a
bullet wound in her head.
1t was not until more than five hours
after the Won shot herself that the
police We're notified. BY that time the
body had beer removed from Whites
residence.
John j. White is a son of John Jay
White, who died about four years age.
leaving a large fortune to his five chill
dren. Whites family is now at Bar
Harbor.
At the home of the suicide, IA West
Twenty ninth street, it was ascertained
that the woman lived alone there, oc-
cupying a suite of rooms on the top
floor. Before moving there she lived
at 237 Fifth avenue Her present home
shows every evidence of refinement and
taste. She has a large library in her
apartments, and is said to have been a
frequent traveller, spending most of her
summers in Europe.
According to Mrs. Griffin, the jani-
tress of the building, Mrs. Carter left
her home last night, saying that she
intended to go to the home of some
friends on Fifty-seventh street. If any
callers came to see her the janitress
was instructed to inform them that
she was at the Fifty-seventh street
house. A young man called in the
course of the evening, and in obedience
to her instructions Mrs. Griffin told him
that Mrs. Carter was with friends at
the address named.
The dead woman was said by the
~janitor to be a person who had few
callers, as a rule, and kept much to
herself. She lived alone with the small
dogs, to which she appeared to be
greatly attached. She was interested
in the "Bide-a-wee" home for dogs, it
was said, and had donated money to
that institution.
According to one report Mrs. Carter
spoke with something of a French ac-
cent, and was said to be- of French
descent. She was an extremely bright
and cultivated woman, her friends de-
clared today.
1t was said that Mrs. Carter had
been somewhat morose of late and had
spoken of troubles which had befallen
her and which preyed upon her mind.
But of their nature she gave no ink
ling.