New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-01-18
SUICIDE AT ST. REGIS.
Hrs II. VI. Sears, of Boston, Jun s
from Uindo-o on Thirteenth Floor.

tser mind deranged by long suffering from mel
-n-holla and nervous prostration. Mrs Herbert Nj
seas OF Boston, jumped from the thirteenth floor
- -he Hotel St Regis. in tbis city, late Thursday
,irht or early yesterday morning. and was instant
y Killed Mrs Sears fetl 10 the rear roof of four
x-,-v dwelling house at No SIS Fifth avenue. and
her body vas not discovered until nearly o'clock
yesterday morning
w-s Sears was the daughter OF General Francis
Bartlett OF Nc. go Beacon street Boston. the art
collector who gave the famous collection of Greek
statGs-y 10 the Boston Museum OF Fine Arts. Her
husband 10 whom she married about sixteen
years ago. belongs TO OF she oldest families in
New England. He is retired broker. Their
home il the Back Bay district of Boston, at No.
81 Commonwealth avenue. For the last nine days
Mrs Sears had occupied with her maid, suite OF
three rooms at The ST Regis, having left her two
daughters who sixteen and thirteen years old,
with their father ii Boston
Mrs. Sears was thirty-eight years old and for the
last nine years had MADE periodical trips to New
York for treatment by DR.. Joseph Collins Of No.
g West 54th street Dr. Collins visited her at her
OF Thursday evening about o'clock. and
says she appeared then in her usual health and
spirits. When Coroner Shrady examined her rooms
yesterday morning he found a letter addressed TO
her husband in her parlor. The coroner read only
The first page Of this letter. and would say only
that Mrs Sears had written her husband that she
had been secretly fighting self-destruction for a
number Of years and could stand it no longer.
Herbert NJ Sears the dead Roman's husband
arrived from Boston last evening and reached the
St Regis shortly after o'clock He went al
cnce 70 the dining room of the hotel with several
friends who were awaiting his arrival.
Nr. Sears is the brother Of Richard F. Sears
who was for years tennis champion Of the United
states half brother. Frederick Sears. is the
father OF Miss Eleanor Sears. The tennis player
Their father. Frederick Sears. who died last sum
rnsr. left g fortune of several millions
Mrs. Sears q famous beauty. The portrait
Of herself and her two daughters painted by J.
J Shannon and exhibited in 1906 in the Royal
Academy. London. attracted considerable atten-
ticu.
Nre Thomas Bailey Aldrich, wife Of the poet.
WHO Is visiting friends here, went 10 the -.
BeEis yesterday when she heard OF MS sears s
death She said she had known her well. as their
summer homes at Bar Harbor Ne. adjoined each
other and YVES greatly shocked by her death
The rooms Mrs Sears occupied a. the St Regis
were IN the southeast wing. the paTor from which
Fhe jumped overlooking much of the city TO the
south. Mrs Benjamin Brewster's home. upon the
rccf OF which her body found. Is two doors
south Of the hotel. that Mrs Sears must have
Jumped entirely the intervening house. but
ler who discovered the body told the clerk at the
s. Regis. who identified It that of Mrs. Sears.
Coroner ShTady found that Mrs SeaTss maid did
not know Of her MISTRESS death She told the
coroner that Mrs. Sears frequently took walks
carly i- the morning. and that when she found her
fed had been slept in but that she was not there
she vas not alarmed. The maid said masseuse
paid Mrs Sears q visit about o'clock OF Thurs
cav night When she left. Mrs Sears told her
Ehs was going TO retire The door 10 the maid
room vas bolted. and she says she did not hear
Mrs. sears stirring about in the night.
The window Of her parior was found open yes
;e-dsy morning From II 10 the roof where Mrs.
sears's body Eas found is over hundred feet.