New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-08
DANCER SHOT TO DEATH
Suicide. Says Woman'S Husband
Who Is Put Under Arrest.
FOUR REVOLVER WOUNDS
Autopsy to Show Whether the
Cartridges in Weapon Were
Loaded or Blank.

Mrs. Annie Hart was found dead in the
Kitchen Of her home at No Isl Fast 9Th
street. Yesterday at noon. with four pistol
shot wounds. Her death was made known
10 the police by her husband. Edward r
Hart a waiter. who ran out Of the house
and told Patrolman Moroney, who was on
most that his wife had committed suicide.
Moroney notified Bellevue and an am
bulance was sent with Dr. Ridge. lie
found blood still flowing from the woman's
mouth. hut as soon as he. examined her NJ
pronounced her dead
she died very recently. he sald.
There are four bullet wounds, three near
her heart and one in her right temple.
ANY one of these shots would have pro-
duced immediate paralysis. followed quick
~ by DEATH
The woman lay across the Kitchen door,
in the rear of the house. huddlcd up with
her head against the sink. The weap-
on. a SS-calibre iive-chambered reNol-
ver. lay under her. There were four eN-
ploded shells i'm the chambers and the
fifth was empty. The police found another
exploded shell in her hair, and there was
s,iu another some distance from her IN
the room. They said that they failed TO
detect any signs of powder marks on her
skin.
According TO the story told by her hus-
band. this was not the first attempt she
had made on her life. Five weeks ago,
he said while they were living at NO. IA
East nth street she made an unsuccessful
effort TO asphyxiate herself with gas. lie
found her he said. lying in the bathtub.
with a tube from the gas jet I'm her mouth,
unconscious. He carried her into the air,
no said. and then called for a doctor, who
CANA and revived her. He could not recall
the doctors name or where he lived.
Didn't Report 1t to Police.
No report was made to the police of the
AFFAIR. This story was confirmed by a
friend of Hart, William kehoe, Of NO.
225 East 22d street, who went TO the East
S5th street station when he learned that
Hart was i'm trouble. They are both said
10 be members of an East Side political
club.
The Harris had moved into the house at
No. l5l East 9th street week ago yester-
dav. leasing il furnished as a rooming house.
The wife had saved $780, which she paid
for the hous, as it stood, and in addition
gave her notes for $3.50. In few days
she got tired of the venture, II was SAID
and tried 10 back out OF it, but at the
refusal Of the person from whom she rent
cd II 10 release her she tried TO resign
herself TO keeping il. She is said to nave
become moody and to have had several
spats with her husband over what she
hogan to consider a bad bargain.
Another cause Of difference during the
last dav or two between them. according
ia blanche O'Rourke. a model. LIVING IN the
bouse was a poodle dog, of which her hus-
band was very fond.
81 have lost the dog" Miss ORourKe
said the dead woman told her day before
Yesterday. MY husband will be wild-he
will kill me
Hart said that he was employed as a
waiter at Clason Point. He came home
night before last and went to bed about
midnight. his wife having already retired.
Sine got up. he sayas, about o'clock but
he lay until pretty near noon Before re-
firing she had given him her money he
said amounting TO $50. and some jewelry'
which ne placed under the mattress.
When he got up, according to his story,
he went downstairs to the kitchen for some
underwear and found his wife lying by
the door.
Il turned her face over and cried, For
Gods sake, speak 10 me, Annie! he said
yesterday But she was dead. She had
committed suicide
Dents in Garbage Can Lid
BY her body the police found the lid OF
q garbage can. smeared with blood. There
we're several dents in it. such as. the police
say. might have been caused by bullets II
she had used it as shield when attacked.
II was at first thought that she had beer
attacked by some one for purposes of rob
berry. but the money was found under the
mattress. where her husband said he put
f. and nothing else I'm the house had been
disturbed Her husband told the police
that his wife had bought the pistol sew