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KILLS MAN, SHOOTS HERSELF
May Roberts Clark Murders Frank
Brady in New York City.
Double Tragedy Occurred in Macy's
Restaurant-Mrs.C Clark Carried
Three Pistols and Used Two.

New York City.-True to her threat
that she would some day kill him and
herself under circumstances that
would "attract the attention Of the
whole world" May Roberts Clark
shot and killed Frank Brady, an ad-
vertising solicitor on the staff Of the
New York Herald, in the crowded
cafe end of the restaurant on the
eighth floor of the r. H. Macy de-
partment store. in Broadway at Thir-
ty-fourth street.
She turned a second weapon on
herself and wounded herself so that
she died shortly in the New York
Hospital. No other tragedy has oc-
Cured in recent years, aside from the
killing of Stanford White. under such
sensational circumstances, happening
at the busiest hour in the day in q
department store whose dining room
Is crowded with hundreds Of women
and business men of the neighbor-
hood at the lunch hour. The double
tragedy occurred where men are
served partly screened by partition
and curtains.
The revolver shots echoed through
the building. She fred FIVE shots
into her victims body and two into
her own. Instantly at the sound Of
the shots and the commotlon in the
cafe, the great dining room was in an
uproar. Some women pressed for
ward, but they were few. Most CT
the others fled from their tables. Ia
bles and chairs were, overturned in
the frantic efforts of the diners to es-
cape from the scene. Women left
bundles and valuables at the tables.
So eager were many to get away that
they did not wait for the elevators,
but rushed down the stairs.
The woman had attracted general
attention on entering the restaurant.
She was tall, fair and pretty, stylishly
dressed and striking in appearance,
yet so evidently agitated that many
of the diners kept their eyes on her
as she went through the room.
The employees Of the restaurant
kept their heads, rescued property for
excited women and soon restored or
der. Reserves were called from the
West Thirtieth street station and an
ambulance from the New York Hos
pital The cafe was closed off, anil
the police were assisted in their work
in every way.
Brady had ordered his luncheon
and was waiting for it to be served
when Mrs. Clark entered. She wore
a veil over her face, draped about a
gray felt hat. There was sable boa
about her neck which matched her
muff. Her dress was a dark waist
with a plum colored skirt. To Lizzie
Graves, a waitress who approached
her, the woman said:
"I'm looking for a friend" adding,
as her eyes fell upon Brady, "Oh,
there he Is over at that table. He's
waiting for me-"
Frank Mcpherson, Of the stores
staff, an eye Witness. thinks that the
murderess spoke to Brady as she
fred the first shot, but he could not
catch her words and Brady had no
opportunity to reply.
May Clark, who was close to forty
years of age, was married, but had
separated from her husband. She
has boy. Raymond, six years old,
who lived with her in the fiat on
133d street, and attended public
school. The neighbors had COM
planned because men called at her
apartments, who sometimes disturbed
them at night time. Brady, hand
some young fellow. in his twenty
fourth year, met Mrs. Clark about
three years ago.