Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1910-08-30
MYSTERIOUS GIRL
SHOOTS HERSELF
IN HOTEL ASTOR
Impossible to Get Along Honor
ably in New York, She Says
in Letter TO Mother.

NEW YORK, Aug. 30.-A pretty
slender girl, not more than 20 years
old, attired in a handsome evening
gown and theatre cloak, walked unno-
ticed into the womens waiting room of
the Hotel Astor just before midnight
last night and fired a bullet from a
pearl-handled revolver into her left
breast.
Il did it myself l shot myself and
want, to die" she said, and then she
swooned
When she regained consciousness
and was asked to give her name she
moaned:
Il don't want it known"
The girl today is in the Flower Hos
pital in a serious condition, but It is
believed she will live The authorities
have no clue to her Identity, which she
steadfastly shielded
She was richly attired in a blue silk
evening gown and had a pink silk
shawl over her head. She was five
feet In height and 120 pounds in weight,
with light brown hair and blue eyes.
Her appearance and dress showed that
she was well-to-do. and suggested that
she had just come from one of the
theatres.
In her pockets We're three letters, one
addressed ito mother" in which she
spoke of her ill-success in New York
and of the impossibility of a girl 20
get along honorably in great city.
Letter to Mother.
The letter ITO Mother contained the
following passages:
Never reproach yourself for what
/ am about to do. You have been
an angel of love to me. land | re-
gret that cause you this trouble.
The force of fate has proven too
strong for me to cope with and It's
has driven me against the wall. and,
being defenseless, l resort to this
cowardly ~? act
Then, too, I hate the insincerity,
sordidness and disillusionment Of
life. That is all have met with
face to face in the last two years.
And now 1 seek the unknown
l can hear you say, dear, 1T is
very wrong for one to take ones
own life, whatever the motive be-"
1t is really deplorable that a girl
cannot get along honorably in New
York In some things I might have
succeeded had 1 conceded to the
wishes of rnen-cultured, yes, usual
ly money. yes, but never moral.
could never submit to such things.
Death is preferable. Ill-fortune has
pursued me through.
This letter appears to be signed
"Norah," but the name was so blurred
as to be indecipherable.
A typewriter manuscript carried the
title "Thessalia," and under 1t. In her
: own handwriting, was scrawled:
Had written Novel.
my pet story, which want buried
with me. 1 wish I could take books as
companions into the. unknown world
with me-"
1t was long story and, dealt with
the adventures of two young men In
Europe.
The hotel physician said that he had
found clutched in the girls left hand a
small typewriter manuscript tied with
baby blue ribbon. She seemed loath
to relinquish it, and he obtained only a
fasty glimpse of what seemed to be a
short novel. Someone straightway ad-
vanced the theory that the attempted
suicide had been inspired by disap-
pointed authorship.
Don't take 1t from me-" she whis-
pered. Il want to have 1t buried with
me-
"But you are not going to die" he
assured her.
But H<want to die" she urged. II
wanted to die and that was why l
shot myself.