Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-03
Beautiful Divorce Kills Her.
self Before Mirror.
WORE COSTLY RAIMENT
Her Clothing of the Finest and But
Newly Purchased.
INITIALS j. C. D. ON RING
Suicide Identified as Divorced Wife
of Broker-Had Registered
From Sioux Falls, S. D.

NEW YORK. December 3.-An investi-
cation of the death OF the we'll dressed
| and pretty woman who shot herself be-
fore mirror in the Clarendon Hotel.
Brooklyn. yesterday. shows that she was
Mrs Lillian III. Falconer Doty. who re-.
Gently obtained divorce at Sioux Falls.
| . ID. from her husband, "A broker, with
othces at 81 Broadway. this city. Mr.
Doty Is said to be president of the Re
serve Fund Securities Company. The
couple were married in 1902 and have a
lVe-year-old son. whose custody
awarded TO the mother. She alleged in
her petition harsh and offensive treatment
| on the part of Mr.. Doty
After obtaining the divorce the woman
returned here. but had not been seen bv
her relates since Monday last Alexander
Falconer the suicides father, who lives
here, was notified of her death last night
The body. which was first taken to the
morgue, VIII be turned over TO relatives
| today.
Father a Retired Merchant.
Mr.. Falconer is a well-to-do retired
| merchant. who formerly lived in Balti-
more, but has made his home in New
YORK for several years past. His daugh-
ter was only twenty-six years old. Mr.
| Doty himself Is we'll to do and has a
handsome country place at Belle Island
on Long Island sound
More Expensive Clothes.
The woman was dressed in expensive
clothes, which appear to be new. She
had unusually long and heavy hair of
sandy shade, was five feet tall. weighed
80 pounds. She wore a modified direc-
gov nf CT,
cloth. with silk skirt to match. On
the front of the gown from the waist
to the hem is a row OF large buttons.
The undergarments are OF silk and ex-
pensive lace.
In the room was a big beaver hat
with wide brim. gold lace band
studded with silver ornaments and pea
cock feathers; new black patent leather
shoes an expensive beaver muff and
one-piece ponyskin three-Quarter length
coat worth about 800 are among the gar
| ments found in the room.
Showed No Signs of Distress.
The woman was apparently cool and
collected when she registered and was
assigned TO No. lis, on the third floor
She carried Il small black handbag, on
one side of which a Mystic Shrine pin
is affixed with a rivet. From this bag
|
/ room.
She did not appear in the hotel office
or parlorS Tuesday night. At IL O'Clock
yesterday morning a maid tried the door,
but found 1t locked. At : o'clock, finding
| it still locked, she and Morris Gunnell a
| hall boy, forced an entrance. The WON
an was found lying across the bed, fully
dressed.
Letters on Child's Ring.
John Hill, the proprietor of the hotel,
called the police and Coroner Brewer.
The body was then taken to the morgue
and thorough examination of her eff
| fects made. In the bag was found
childs gold band ring. much worn. The
initials j. c. D. engraved on the in
| side of the ring. could be family dis
| cerned. One of a number of plain white
handkerchiefs had the letter ID" en-
| broidered in one corner. There was
package of cigarettes in the bag also. A
cut-glass toilet box. with solid gold top:
a bottle of smelling salts, with gold
top: a small gold coin with the Lords
prayer engraved thereon. a heavy gold
horseshoe pin. studded with twelve small
opals, and three large authenticated hat
pins were among the other articles found.