Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-08
YOUNG MATRON
SEEKS DEATH
TRIES TO END LIFE WITH RE-
V0LVER SHOT
SAID TO BE DESPoNDENT OVER
FINANCIAL REVERSEs
Chambermaid In Apartment House
Finds Pretty 21-Year-oId Woman
Unconscious from Self
Inflicted Wound

Dependency due to the fact that her
husbands fortune was swept away as
the result of improbable mining in
vestments at Goldfeld and that she
is separated from him and compelled
to earn her own living, is thought to
have prompted Mrs. r. B. Cradle
paugh, pretty woman 21 years old,
to attempt suicide early yesterday
morning by sending a bullet through
her right breast at her apartments at
500 South Figueroa street
The young woman was found in a
semi-conscious condition in the hall
just outside the entrance to her room
shortly before o'clock yesterday morn
ing. She was bleeding from a bullet
hole in her body, and the revolver, a
small one, was lying on the floor near
her.
Her room was searched while she was
being taken to the receiving hospital
and several notes in scrawlng hand
writing We're found on her dresser. The
notes were rambling and incoherent
and were to the effect that she was
nervous and was afraid the bullet
might not enter a vital spot. One of
the notes mentioned the fact that she
loved no one but daddy" and he was
asked to forgive her.
The attendants at the apartment
house say the young woman was in
cheerful mood Sunday night and that
she gave them no intimation that she
contemplated suicide. None of the oc-
cupants of the place heard the shot,
and the fact that she shot herself was
not known until her groans were heard
by q chambermald on the lower stair
way.
Little Is known of the young woman.
She engaged rooms at the apartment
house February l and occupied a suite
of elegantly furnished rooms with a
Mrs. Louis Kennedy About a week
later Mrs. Kennedy left and Mrs u.
M. Fischer went to live with Mrs. Cra-
dlepaugh.
According to the proprietor of the
apartment house they paid their bills
promptly and acted in decorous man
ner. To the landloard the women said
their husbands were out of the city.
Mrs. Cradlepaugh is said to have re-
marked that she received a check each
month from her former husband.
Return Not Noticed
Sunday night the women left their
apartments. Mrs. Fischer it is under
stood, went to the home of her mother,
who lives at 2096 West Twenty seventh
g street, and Mrs. Cradlepaugh went TO
visit a friend Mrs. Fischer, it seems,
did not return to the rooms that night,
but remained at the home of her
mother None of the occupants at the
rooming house saw Mrs. Ctadlepaugh
when she returned
Mrs. Fischer learned of the affair
when she appeared at the apartment
house yesterday morning. She hurried
to the receiving hospital and after
learning that the wounded woman was
in a serious condition left the place
and had her friend removed to the
Hospital of the Good Samaritan.
Ali efforts to learn the past history
of Mrs. Cradlepaugh were futile, as
Mrs. Fischer, who is the most intimate
acquaintance of the unfortunate Wom-
an, declined to discuss the case.
Later it was learned that Mrs era
dlepaugh married when she was II
wears old. Her husband at that time
owned valuable mining property IN
Nevada and in the northwest. Un-
profitable investments at Goldheld, 1t is
said wiped away his fortune and he
and his wife separated.
Cradlepaugh it is understood, went
to London, where he is supposed 10
he at the present time, and Mrs. era
dlepaugh since that time has been
earning her living by working as a
stenographer.
The couple, it is said, quarreled and
Mrs. Cradlepaugh began divorce pro
ceedings. So far as can be ascertained
the suit was not filed in Los Angeles
county.
Late last night attendants at the
Good Samaritan hospital stated Mrs.
Cradlepaugh was resting easily and
that she has fair chance for recovery.