The evening world., 1912-10-30
GHOST HAUNTED,
|. SEERESS IN Want
TRIES TO ENDL|FE
Janitor Breaks in Door in
Time to Prevent Leap
from Window. =,
A BEAUTY SPECIALIST.
Said to Have Earned $500 a
Week by Her Mystic
Teachings.
A BEAUTY SPECIALIST,

The light OF a waning moon last night
rear OF No. 81 West Thirty-sixth street
and struck a few highlights. In one
corner was sphere OF crystal such ms
mystics of old and dupes Of later times
have gazed at with stralning eyes TO
catch a glimpse of what the fates had
In store. Along the walls were what
looked to be human faces of CHASTITY
chalk color On the floor at the foot Of
the row OF masks crouched woman.
And from her lips there poured an in
coherent torrent OF mumbling and NUT
tering, which now and again rose to
pleading with some invisible agency
until with frenzied shrek she would
suhslde into a whlmper
inc woman was Jeannie de I.etoIle.
hfty-hve years old. Up to two years
ago she had been making an astonishing
income. said TO be as much as Ave hun
dred dollars week, at what she de-
scriped as the science OF bringing physi.
cal beauty to women's faces through
the medium OF building up spiritual and
mental health AMI beauty and harmony
within their souls. She called herself
mental science healer, others spoke
OF her as a beauty specialist.
BELIEVE! AND THESE THINGS
SHALL BE, SHE SAID,
The soul is beauty-harmony-sw
ness-peace" she would repeat strenu-
ously to those who came for treatment
to her. Believe, believe and these
I'M - xntlI kA -
beauty and peace will shine through
your face and make it reflect the har-
mony and peace and beauty of the soul.
There IL no horror In the soul!'
But In her own disordered mind last
night there raved q legion Of torturlns
images that drove out OF her lips the
mumblings and the mutterings, the
pleadings and the shrieks that at frst
reused. then frightened her neighbor
In an adjoining room and the tanitor of
the house.
To the crazed woman, alone In Ahe
dark room, only family lit by the dying
moon. the chastity masks OF human
faces sec ed to leer and threaten and
press closer and closer upon her From
all corners OF the room they closed In
upon her until In her frenzy her eyes
sought the dark opening OF the window.
which opens upon the courtyard. With
a scream she started toward It.
JANIToR BREAKS IN DOOR JUST
IN TIME.
Just then with a crash the door few
open before the assault upon 1t by
Patrick Donnelly, the janitor. He
pressed the button on the wall, the
room flashed with light and showed
him the wild haired woman on the floor
crawling toward the window. He
caught hold Of her gown and held her
fast.
The janitor's wife called Policeman
Hale OF the West Thirtieth street police
station. who In turn called up DR..
Keith Of the New York Hospital The
doctor advised her removal to the On
sane ward OF Bellevue Hospital, where
she IL now under observation in the
psychopathic ward.
Nancy Gillian, a lawyer II No. 10
West Thirty-fourth street, whom the
patient named as her closest friend,
said to an Evening World reporter that
his acquaintance with JEANNE de Lee
toile was OF n professional nature, aris-
ing from some legal and business ad-
vice for whcih she had applied to him
in the last two years. 1t seems that
she sold out her New York clientele
| temporarily to woman who called
herself Nine, Helene while she went TO
Atlantic City to open another branch
Business was poor there and she came
back to the city to find that, as she
said. Mime. Helene mad defrauded her
OF certain things that were due to her
Reduced to her last cent. the unsettled
condition OF mind ensued that cul-
minated In the outbreak OF last night