The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-01-30
DOUBLE TRAGEDY
ENDS i ROMANCE
Handsome Widow Kills Man in Crowd
ed Store.
THEN SHE SHOOTS HERSELF.
Mrs. Mary Robert Clark, Stylishly Dress
ed and of Means, Walks in Crowded
Cafe Occupying Eighth Floor of
Macy's Big Department Store and
Fires Five Bullets Into Frank Brady.

New York, Especially. - Sweeping
through the crowded restaurant
which takes up the eighth floor of
Macy's department store and into the
gentlemen's cafe, a tall stylishly
dressed woman bent for a moment
over the shoulder of a diner, whis-
pered something in his ear and then.
drawing a revolver from her mum,
emptied the contents of the five
chambers into his body.
AS her victim, Frank Brady, an
advertising solicitor for the Evening
Telegram, slipped 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.
In addition to the two guns which
she pulled from her muff, third
loaded revolver was found in the
woman's handbag when 1t was open
ed to look for some means of identi-
flying her.
Threatened To Leave Her.
A note found in the woman's purse
proved her to be Mrs. Mary Roberts
Clark, a manicurist, the widow of
police officer and stepmother of a
six-year-old son, Raymond, Brady
was 80 years old and the sole sup
port of a helpless aged mother, for
whom he had made a home. The
shooting was the elimination of a
series of violent quarrels and, ac-
cording to the woman's intimates, In
fulfilment of a threat to murder
Brady in a public place "before the
world" unless he renewed the at
tentions she asserted she received
from him when he was less prosper
Gus and she in a position to befriend
him.
In her apartments, at 219 West
One Hundred and Thirty-third Street,
the woman left note in which she
said the cause of the tragedy was
Brady's refusal to marry her. She
charged him with having persuaded
her to leave her husband, with hav-
ing lived with her for sometime af-
terward and with attempting to dis
card her.
Shots Created Panic.
Brady left the Evening Telegram
Office shortly before noon and went
directly to the restaurant, on the
eighth floor of the Macy Building.
He took seat at table in the room
known as the annex, which is on the
Thirty-fifth Street side.
Brady had just given his order and
and was scanning an evening news
paper, when a midde-aged woman,
dark and heavy set, entered the an
mex from the main dining room. She
had walked through the main room
obviously in search of someone.
She waved aside the waitress who
approached her, and made her way
hastily to a small smoking room for
gentlemen, just off the main dining
hall. The big room was filled with
women who were lunching after the
mornings shopping, and amid the
buzz of conversation her agitated
manner attracted the attention only
of the mattresses, one of whom, MOTTO
ing her approach the mems cafe, ask
ed If she was seeking someone.
YES she replied, "and l know
where he is, too" She brushed the
girl aside, and in a moment stood
behind Brady's chair and spoke to
him. Before he had time to reply
she had showed a revolver in his face
and commenced firing. The head, the
neck, the shoulder, the breast and
the abdomen were successfully pierre
ed by bullets, and Brady lay dead
at her feet.