New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-06
TRIES SUICIDE IN HOTEL.
Girl Seeks to Hide Identity Wnen
Taken to the Hospital.
WILL RECOVER, DOCTORS SAY
Note Refers to NeglectIui
Brothers, Though Miss Ryder
Has No Brothers or Sisters.

A Young woman, who at first sald she
was Mrs j. w Snow. of Savannah pN'
who later gave her name as MISS r-s'ei'o
RYDER. twenty-three years Old cI No ~
Park Place. Brooklyn, shot herseI cary
Yesterday morning in the Hotter hii'Ne
booker The young. woman shot hei sen
once in the left side. but her ann was pour
and it was said last night at the Ne" hol ~
Hospital where she was taken tHa' o'iO
would probably recover.
She said at the hospital that her reason
for attempting to kill herself was because
she was lonely and that no one go loi
her. She insisted that her name was
Snow. until confronted with Mrs. Renier' Oh
No 497 Park Place, Brooklyn, with Whoin
she had boarded She then broke down ana
admitted that she was Miss Esteiie Ryder
and had been employed as stenoerapnei
in the office of James Loveland, lawyer
in the Singer Building.
Her father she said then. was CharieS
Ryder, farmer, of Ossining-
Miss Ryder went to the Hotel knlcker-
booker on Wednesday afternoon one
registered as Mrs. John w Snow, SaVan-
nah" and was assigned to a room on the
ninth floor. A few minutes after O'Clock
Yesterday morning the floor clerk hearu
two revolver shots. and rushing into the
room from which they came found the g'ri
lying on her bed, clothed only in her night
gown Dr. ]. S. Hill. the house physician
succeeded in extracting the bullet
Miss Ryder was then taken to the New
York Hospital In an ambulance
On a table in the room lay card. on
which the detectives found the following
note:
To Whom 1t May Concern:
I've written my brother OF my lnten-
tions to do this and you Will hear from
him to-day. He is in New York and VIII
attend to my burial. He will probably be
here shortly after | do this. Don't let the
newspapers get word of this
MRS JOHN w. SNOW.
When she was asked about this note the
girl said that she had written to her broth-
err, who was named Simpson, VINO had
PLAYED OH the Princeton basebabll team
She said further that j. w White, man
ager of the Union Switch and Signal COM
pany of No. 143 Liberty street, knew her
brother. but when MIR White arrived at
the hospital he said he had never seen the
girl before and that he did not know any
one by the name of Simpson
Later in the day the girl said that she
knew a Mrs Mumford, of No. 497 Park
Place, Brooklyn. Mrs. Mumford said girl
who lived in the house with her answered
the description of the wounded girl, but that
her name was Ryder. The girl however,
steadfastly denied that she was Miss Ky
der until Mrs Renter. accompanied by her
two daughters, arrived at the hospital she
then acknowledged her identity.
Mrs Renter said that the girl had beeh
living with her for the last two years ana
had worried a great deal over the death or
her grandmother. She said that she thought
if was that that had caused her to try sui
eide.
Her father was reached later in the even
ing at his home in Ossining. He said that
he knew of no reason for his daughter
act as she had been at home only TWO
weeks before and seemed in good spirits. a
woman at Mr. Ryder's home, however, SAID
she thought the girls attempt to end her
life must have been the result of some love
affair and that the lover must have peeh
the voung man whom she called her BROTH
or Miss RYDER. she said had neither broth
ars nor sisters Mr.. Ryder, who is man
of some means, said that he would come 10
New York this morning to look after MS
daughter.
Miss RYDER Is an unusually attractive
girl When she was found she had ABOUT
her neck a gold chain upon which hung
Iocket In the Iocket was a picture of
young man in the uniform OF a Prihceto"
baeebaI1 nIaver When she was asked VINO
this man was she said that it was her
brother. but later admitted that 1t was not