The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-08-30
POLICE TRYING TO ESTABLISH IDENTITY OF GIRL WHO SHOT
 HERSELF AT THE HOTEL ASTOR
Now Grave Condition Tn Flower Hospital After Dramatic Attempt at Suicide In the Retiring
 Room of the Fashionable Hostelry
Case Is One of Deepest Mystery and Authorities Are Working on Three Letters Found In Her Clothing and Addressed to Mother, Sister and Blanche, Her
 Burden of Complaint, that Life Had Been Failure

ly act Then, too, I hate the insincer- | ity, sordidnesS and disSillusionment Of life. That is all that have met with in the last two years and now I seek the unknown.
 "I can hear you say, Dear. 1t is very l wrong for one to take ones own life, whatever the motive may be- Yet il is really dep1orable that a girl cannot get along honorably in New York. Tn some things I might have succeeded had I conceded to the wishes of men culture, yes, usually money, yes; but never moral. I could not submit to such things Death is preferable. Ill-fortune has pursued me through"
 The letter appeared to be signed "Norah', but the signature was so blurred 1t could not be deciphered. The letters addressed 'To Sister, and ITO Blanche. the police at first re- fused to make public. They said they seemed to refer to a family quarrel and they hope to establish the Identity of the girl through them.
 In the handbag there was also found manuscript in verse entitled. '"The Suala', extending over seven sheets of paper. There was also this penciled note:
 ''This is my pet story. I want to have it buried with me. I would like to take my books with me as companions.
 Later in the morning Dr. Hughes. who is in charge of the case, stated its and that the girl was in a grave condition. A man accompanied by two young womer came to the hospital shortly before noon and asked to see the girl. They said that they believed they might know her but she was in too serious a state to be disturbed and they left. Neither the man nor the women would discuss the case nor would they say who they thought the girl was They were believed to be theatrical people. On one of the girls skirts was found label of Hethering- tune manufacturer. When they found that they could not Identify the girl the police decided to give out the other two letters. The first, addressed to Dear Blanche. read as follows:
 You may and may not think me foolish but I have made up my mind to do it from the time that Dear Daddy moments but I an. accountable for what I do and I am willing to take chances The woman writers for newspapers print a lot of foolish non sense about these things. They are generally far from the real mark. They seldom give the real reason for acts such as I am about to commit. They usually say it Is the result of love affair. In this instance, however, as you know. love has nothing to do with it. As with King Midas, where everything turns to gold. in my case everything turns to failure. Think kindly of me- I might not have been so but mine has been an unhappy life"
 This letter had been signed but the signature had been erased.
 The other letter addressed to Dear est Sister,, read as follows:
 "Of course we disagree on this as we do on every other topic. We have both been firm and my disposition has been such that I could not always see things in the same light that my friends have. You never did under stand me nor my way of doing things. Now that our wills are about to clash for the last. time you, may think more kindly of me- Within the last two years I have several times been tempt ed to do this and now I will be sue cessful for the first time in my life. It is hard to do this but harder still not to do it. Do not grieve for me. I have never Intentionally done or said any unkind things in my life. I real ize that my life has been a mistake I want. You know how earnestly I tent, but with what success. You of all others know that my life has been a failure. I hope and pray that my blessings may fall on your life like au- tumn leaves and wish you success. Say goodbye for me to the dear onesA Again I ask you to think kindly of Dna''