Evening star., 1908-01-23
LOADED FOR TROUBLE
WOMAN'S DOUBLE CRIME IN
CROWDED NEW YORK CAFE.

NEW YORK, January 23.-Sweeping
through the crowded restaurant which
takes up the eighth floor of Macy's de-
partment store and into the mems cafe
yesterday. tall. stylishly dressed woman
bent for moment over the shoulder of a
diner, whispered something in his ear,
and then. drawing a revolver from her
muff. emptied the contents of the five
chambers into his body
AS her victim, Frank Brady a news
paper advertising solicitor slid lifeless to
the floor the woman flung the weapon
from her. and. taking a second revolver
from her muff. shot herself first in the
head and then twice in the breast She
died half hour later.
A note found in the woman's purse
proved her to be Mrs. Mary Roberts
clark, a manicurist. the widow of po-
ilceman and stepmother of a six-year-
OLD son. RAYMOND. Brady was thirty
years oiu and the sole support of help
less. aged mother, for whom he had made
home.
Tragedy a Culmination of Quarrels
The shooting was the elimination of a
series or violent quarreIs and. according
to the woman's intimates. in fulfllment Of
a threat to murder Brady in public place
before the world unless he renewed his
relations with her
The police had little difficulty in tracing
the tragic story back from effect to cause
The suicide, who was about thirty years
0! age was Mary Mclean when she mar
REQ John Roberts. When the latter died,
a year ago. she assumed the name Clark
and supported herself and her child, first
as the wardrobe woman at an uptown the
atef' ana then as a manicurist. She was
OF a prepossessing appearance and had
marked business ability Last August
she made will. in which she was able
to provide for the education of her son
at a fashionable school in Westchester
county A clergyman was made executor
Found Victim in Restaurant.
Brady left the Evening Telegram Office
shortly before noon and went d;rect,v to
the restaurant on the eighth floor of the
Macy building. He took a seat at a
table in the room known as the annex.
which IS on the 35th street side. This
room Is cut off from the main restaurant
except for four or five doors. There
weren't more than fifty persons in the
annex but the main dining room was
we'll filed.
Brady had just given his order. and
was scanning an evening newspaper when
middle-aged woman. dark and heavy
set. entered the annex from the main
dining room She had walked through
the main room obviously in search of
some one.
She paused moment in the doorway.
and one of the mattresses asked her if
She would have table.
NO. replied the woman. IT have
been looking for some one"
She had hardly finished this sentence
when her eye fell on Brady over in the
northwest corner of the room He had a
table pretty well out from the wal. and
there was nobody within fifteen or twenty
feet OF him. The woman walked brisk
ly down the room to the 35th street side
and then across to the table where Brady
was sitting. All the time she kept him
under eye. but he apparently had nc idea
of her presence until she stopped behind
him. What she said to him no one
heard.
Tragedy in Few Seconds.
The first warning the other diners had
was the report of the revolver. The wom-
an then was sstanding about three feet
from Brady, pointing the revolver with
one hand and holding her muff in the
other. The first shot had hit Brady in
the neck He half turned in his chair
but four more bullets in quick success
sion pierced his chest. and his head fell
forward on the table
BY this time the diners in the annex
had recovered from the first shock. and
several of them had started toward the
woman. Before they were near her
though. she let the empty revolver fall
to the floor. and drawing another, fully
loaded. from her muff, pointed it at her
head. The bullet missed and buried it
self in the ceiling. With remarkable
GOODNESS she took aim. and this time the
bullet lodged near her BRAIN
second later she pulled the trigger
pressed tight against her breast The
bullet missed the heart and ranging
downward to the abdomen. inflicted a
fatal wound. The whole tragedy. accord
ing to those who witnessed it, was over
inside of a few seconds.