Evening star., 1909-04-15
END LIVES ON LINER.
Girl Cabin Mates Suicides on
the LuCania.
DIE FOUR DAYS APART
Miss Miller Had Taken Another
Cabin After Miss Clarke's Death.
BOTH WOMEN BURIED AT SEA
Both Were Almost Penniless and
Friends Cannot Be Located-one
Boarded Ship Hurriedly.
DIE FOUR DAYS APART
BOTH WOMEN BURIED AT SEA

LONDON, April 15.-During the voy-
age OF the Lucania. which arrived at
LIVERPOOL yesterday from New York, two
passengers, Margaret Clarke and Helen
Miller, Americans, committed suicide and
were buried at sea.
The women shared the same cabin
when the steamer sailed. The morning Of
April Miss Clarke did not appear on
deck or in the saloon, and toward mid
day the stewardess. looking in, found
her dead in her berth with a mirror In
one hand and revolver In the other.
Miss Miller, who had previously left
the cabin, said she had thought Miss
Clarke asleep when she did not respond
when Miss Miller spoke to her. When
Miss Miller learned Of the suicide she
said she had heard no sound of a shot,
and, so far as she could judge. Miss
Clarke had seemed all right the evening
before. She understood from what Miss
Clarke said that the latter was Brook
lynite., In Miss Clarke's belongings there
was nothing to establish her identity.
She had in her possession fifty cartridges
and $f.J0. The ships officers entertained
no suspicion Of foul play or that Miss
Miller was In any way connected with
Miss Clarke's death.
Seemed Unconcerned at First.
Another stateroom was assigned to Miss
Miller. and In the course Of a couple OF
days she seemed to be taking part in the
life Of the ship as II the tragedy had left
her unconcerned-so much so that two
girls on board went to her cabin to ask
her to join them in q game. She usually
rested Sunday and would remain in her
cabin.
Monday the girls again visited Miss
Miller's stateroom and found they could
not push the door open without difficulty.
When they succeeded in doing 50 they
saw that the obstacle was the dead body
OF the woman on the floor. She had EVIL
IDENTIFY shot herself near the ear. and her
face was bathed In blood. A note was
dound VT, writer ss. sy .a Miss Miller TO the
Ciarl<e.s death: that she had been
widow more than two years. and had de-
cided to end her struggles, and that she
wished to be buried at sea.
that q quarter-dollar apparently repre-
sented all OF Miss Miller's funds.
Boarded Steamer Hurriedly.
NEW YORK, April 15-Cabie advices Of
the two suicides on the Lucania were re-
ceived yesterday by the Cunard Steam
ship Company.
Passenger Agent Walker said he re-
membered distinctly that a woman who
said ehe was margaret clarke na0 2ppi1ed
for a room in the second cabin. She was
apparently about thirty-two years old.
The other woman, Passenger Agent
Fecke said. gave the name Of Helen Mil
Ter. She rushed into the ONCE the day
the steamer was to sail and bought .
second-class ticket. She arrived at the
pier with a young man. then thought to
! be her brother, and hurried aboard the
Lucania just before the vessel sailed. She
was the last passenger aboard, and ar
rived out of breath and excited.
Vernon H. Brown Of the Cunard line
sent men TO Brooklyn yesterday 10 look
up Miss Clarke at 66 Clinton street. an
address found in her belongings. They
found that the site where the house Of
that number once stood Is occupied by the
Long Island Historical Society building,
which faces on Montague street. No
woman named Clarke was known there or
in that neighborhood. nor on Clinton ave-
nue..