The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-03

Horror at Scenes in a
Moving Picture Show
UnnerveS Her.
RECALL THE TIMES
SPENT IN SIBERIA
Helen MandeIstan Becomes
Tired OF Life After Viewing
Illustrated Suffering.
REV0LUTIONIST IN RUSSIA
WHEN IN HER TEENS
Overcome by Terrible Renlinis.
cenees When in Company
with a Woman Friend.

Her hIdeous past In the salt mines
of siberia brought viyidIy back TO her
In n moving picture theatre, when she
saw a film depicting conNicts being
driven to their work, so impressed
Helen Msndelstan, au accomplished
Young woman, formerly Russian
revolutioaist, that she attempted sui
eide today by drinking nitric acid. She
was hurried TO the City Hospital, but
IL Is feared that she will die.
Miss Mandelstan had been in this
country only a short time. She had
been living in New York. On Thursday
she came to Newark to visit her broth
er, DIR. Max Mandelstan, who is an as
sistant in the.dental offices of DIR. Will
liam Levine, of 500 High street. DR..
I.evine's offices take UP the first and
second floors of the High street ad-
dress He is married and lives with
his wife on the third floor.
When Miss Mandelstan arrived she
was given over to the care of Mrs.
Levine. who showed her every atten-
ton Yesterday, while the two women
were downtown shopping, they dropped
into a nickeldrome.
Scenes TOO Realistic.
Suddenly there was flashed upon the
screen a picture of convicts crawling
dejectedly to their work in the salt pits.
Their faces were vividly shown, and
one could almost feel the blows from
the heavy knouts which the Cossack
guards swung about them with british
delight.
Miss Mandelstan breathed so hard
that Mrs. Levine's attention was at
tracted to her.
'What Is the matter?" asked the
dentists wife.
"Those pictures are so real, so hor-
ribly real" murmured the girl. "You
see at a very early age when / lived
with my mother in the Province of
Kovno | became interested in social
ism and finally became involved in the
revolutionary movement. L was be-
trayed and arrested Gand sent off to
Siberia. Finally l was released, but
only after my mind had been shocked
and my spirit broken"
Seeing that Miss Mandelstan was
deeply affected, Mrs. Levine suggested
that they leave the theatre, and they
went out. Her spirits revived and Mrs,
Levine forgot the incident.
At noon today when Mrs. Levine, Miss
Manderstan and her brother were about
to sit down to lunch the girl called her
brother and handed him slip of paper.
He opened it and read:
II want to die"
AS he looked up he saw that his sis
ter was swaying and putting out his
hands he saved her from falling to the
floor. Mrs. Levine called her husband,
and then Dr. George A. Rogers and DIR.
Edward Steiner were summoned. They
found that she had taken acid. They
made desperate efforts to save her life
and had her removed to the hospital.
When she reached that institution she
was In a critical condition.
Yesterday Miss Mandelstan expressed
a wish to go to New York, but her
brother persuaded her to remain. He
remarked to DIR Levine that he feared
his sister would make an attempt upon
her life. He did not give any reason
for his thought.
Miss Mandlestan is % years old.