The evening world., 1911-06-05
Handsomely Dressed "Clara
Lynch" Hires Room for
Suicide.
OTHER WASTED LEGACY.
Ursula Ross, Her $4,000
Spent on Fine Clothing,
Takes Poison on Street.

'"'H' Unu"f mNst"rlous Circiim-
stances Both were saved by prompt
ad. One hides both her identity and
~" cause % hcr act. The other Is an
fei"ess. said to have spent her 5000
legacy on fine clothing.
y love story. completely hidden in
i'vstcry. lies behind the at,cmp, Of a
'unS wonsn who gave her name az
lara Lynch to end her life in a fur
! shed room house AZ 40. ioi West
' ghty-hrst street. From the moment
ne was taken. early to-day. to the j.
li'oi Wright Hospital. unconscious
{ ON gas, until late this afternoon. she
s.ol'dl" refused to give any informstioi
concerning herself.
Primarily. the girl tired to make the
doctors and police believe she was a
cook. Her manner. dress and general
Ep2e1rance do not agree with the story.
Ter clothing vas of the hes, grade and
, Vie. \ watch, with the Initials go.
VI" supplied the only clue outside OF
n few photographs from which the
J eads hal been cut. : said that the
Na;cl telongeI to her sister and that
tie initials represented Gertrude Mar
itget."
rhe photog apis reveal 4 Young girl
~ what seems to he ar institutional
Isrb. They were taken 10y a photos-
ispher in Third avenue, near seventy
ninth street. He had no record by
vhich he could identify them. The girl
sal dthey We're in the room when she
came there. j. r. Mattson. proprietor
- " - 800 f--- ,N..s
wore not. ON one Of the pictures there
appears 10 he a scar on the left arm
Policeman insisted that the girl took
the room at No. loi West E~ighty-frst
street yesterday afternoon for the pur-
pose OF committing suicide.
When Assistant Superintendent Mar
tinez, At the j. Hood Wright Hospital.
tried to get the girl to tell something
about herself she refused.
II I do 1t will get TO the papers," she
s.,id.
Insists She 10 "clara Lynch"
She still insisted that her nsme was
Clara Lynch and that she is a cook.
She was suffering seriously from gas In
hslatlon when she was brought to the
hospital and II was long before she be-
came conscious and gave the name the
poli,e believe is fictitious.
The house where she attempted sui
eide Is a roomins house. run by ]. T.
Mattson. According to the story he told
the police. the young woman came there
yesterday and asked to look at the va
cant rooms. She selected the best In the
house. and said she had just come to
the city to spend her vacation.
She was dressed In the best OF taste
IT, q handsome long suit of brown ma
,er.al. black low cut oxford shoes and
black silk stockings.
When Mattson did manage to ask her
something about herself she said: oh,
I'm q cook" but the way she said IL
impressed Mattson with the idea that
she was trying to repel personal ques-
tons. SO he asked no more.
About 4 o'clock Matson smelled gas.
He traced the odor to the young
woman's room.
Policeman Early of the West sixty
eighth street station was called and
the two men put their shoulders 10 the
door and burst 1t in. While the police
man threw the window. open and
turned on the gas. Mattson ran for
milk.
They forced the emetic into the wo-
mans throat, but being unable to bring
her around. hurried her off to the hos
pital. All her effects were packed in
two suit cases which the police have
taken charge OF.
SQUANDERED HER HERITAGE,
TOOK POISON ON STREET.
A pretty. well dressed girl stood sob
b ing at One Hundred and Twenty-ffth
street and Lexington avenue at 2 O'Clock
this morning as Policeman Bolner OF
the East One Hundred and Twenty-sIxth
street station approached.
she took a small box from her hand-
bag, removed something from the box
and swallowed It.
I've taken these she gasped. as size
hala out n hox marked b,chlorila Of