The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-06-02
She DRANK ACID
AFTER AUTO RIDE
"I'Ve Had a Glorious Time,- Says New
York Woman, Then Swallows
Poison.

NEW YORK Special Drinking
carbohc acid that had been in her
possession for more than three
months, Mrs. Grace Hartenstein, wife
or Frederick Hartenstein, superintend-
ent OF the Long Island Railroad i'm
charge of passenger and freight traf-
Tic of the entire system, killed herself
Monday night at 67 West Thirty
elShth Street. She was a strikinglv
beautiful woman of thirty-two. and
had been separated from her husband
ne told the police, for the last two
years. A suit for divorce instituted
by her is pending in the Supreme
Court, the husband said.
Mrs. Hartenstein had been living In
west Thirty-eighth Street for the past
three weeks. coming there from the
fulton Hall apartments, at 32S West
Nlnety-sixth Street. She returned
from an automobile ride at 5 O'Clock
Monday afternoon and told Mrs. Anna
I1agstedt her landlady, that she had
glorious time" Her mood indi-
Gated as much.
"rIl Be Late for Dinner"
m going to battle and may be a
little late in getting down for dinner. -
Mrs: Hartenstein told Mrs. Hagstedt
as she went up to her room.
Half an hour later she sent some
nnen 10 a laundry. A few moments
afterward Edward a. Torbert, another
roomer In the house, heard Mrs. Har-
tenSten Sroan as he passed her door
lie raped, and then went in. She
was lying on the floor, a broken two
ounce bottle beside her.
Torbert called Mrs Hagstedt and
summoned DR.. Walsten NJ Tompkins
woman physician of AZ West Thir-
ty-eighth Street. DR.. Tomlxins fouDd
that Mrs. Hartenstein was past her
aid, and in a very few moments she
had died. Mrs. Hagstedt called Mr.
Hartenstein from the Park Avenue
Hotel, where he has lived for some
years.
Mr.. Hartenstein spent nearly two
hours with Coroner Feinberg, and
when he left declined TO make anv
statement to newspaper men, He told
Folceman Walker, of the West Thir-
ueth Street Station, who was station
ed at the house, that the affair must
not get into the papers" and when
toId that a report would have to be
made TO the station, added, well.
make II as brief as possible"
Says He Supported Her.
dartenSteln was especially disturb
ed by the belief at the house where
ms wife had been living that she was
framed nurse. He declared to the
police that although she had left him
two years ago, she had not had to de-
pend upon her own resources even
during that time. He said that he
sent her check each time. They
were married thirteen years ago, Mr..
ttartenstein said, his wife coming
from well-knOwn Ontario family
Mrs. Hagstedt said that Mrs. Harlem
stem had been greatly interested i'm
aeronautics; She knew much about the
science, and had even worked out some
improvements for the aeroplane. An
account of these inventions were soon
10 De published in technical journal,
Mrs. Ma gstedt had heard.
The bottle that was found by Mrs
side bore the label of
Edward B. Baitzly, a druggist at Broad
way and Ninety-siXth Street Baltzlv
found that the acid had been furnished
upon the prescription Of DR.. Henry 10.
Hale, OF No: 752 West End Avenue, on
February 18th.
DIR. Hale said that he had known Mrs.
professionally for a year.
be had treated her once for rheuma-
ttsm, and on January 27th had given
her the prescription for carbolic acid
to be used antiseptically. for a cut on
her finger.
The body was taken to an undertake
Ing establishment, where It was pre-
pared for removal to Bay City, Mich.
IL Is not known on whose orders this
was done.