The Washington times., 1912-03-20
WOMAN LEAPS TO
DEATH WITH ROPE +.
ABOUT HER NECK
Crazed Because She Was
Caught Smuggling, Jumps
From Hotel Window.

NEW YORK, March 2O.-Crazed be-
cause of the disgrace of having been
caught smuggling, a woman whose
name and address were admittedly f1c-
tltious committed suicide in a most SEN
sational manner today. Tieing a rope
about her neck and fastening the other
end of it to the radiator in her room,
she clambered out of the eighth story
window on the Fifth avenue side of the
Hotel Broztell, at the corner of Twenty
seventh street, and jumped into space.
!. Her dangling body, swa ying slowly
arom side to side, was discerned by
early morning pedestrians when the fob
That had enshrouded the city lifted.
The hotel officers were notified and
round the woman dead when she was
taken back into the room.
Arrived Monday Morning.
The woman arrived here on Monday
morning on the George Washington, of
the North German Lloyd line. She
went to the Hotel Wolcott and gave the
name of Mrs. Blanche M. Carson, and
her address at 1925 Cough street, San
francisco.
}. Mrs. Carson left letter addressed to
attorney Osborn, which read as fol-
MY brothers address is Paul r. May
bury, 9l9 West Twenty-eighth street,
Los Angeles, Cal. 1 can never thank
for me. Dispose of the remains here
quickly. Don't send home.
b. CARSON"
The letter was written with a pencil,
and was timed a. m. today.
The woman was fashionably dressed.
apparently about fifty, and plainly a
woman OF culture. She declared loose
pearls on which she placed a valuation
paid for them while travelling In India.
The expert appraiser and other Of
ticials who saw the pearls immediately
Put their value at many thousand dc l.
Appraisers stores Yesterday, when
called before Surveyor Henry, the worn-
an confessed the pearls were much more
valuable than she had said. and also
that she had smuggled In two diamond
Earrings in the lining of her hat. She
turned all of her iewelry over to the
officials. and tearfully confessed hey
sorrow that she had tried to commit a
crime.
Collapsed At Hearing.
When Henry announced that she was
under arrest and she was taken before
United States Commissioner Carpenter
in Jersey City, the woman collapsed
Because she had admitted the facts her
bail was placed at only 5000 which
was furnished by her attorney. Harrison
Osborne. She went back to the Wolcott
and paid her bill. She then went di.
rectly to the Hotel Broztell, where sh,
later hanged herself.
Il am not at all sure that Mrs Car
son was guilty of intention to smuggle
She denied It to me.
She said that she had the pearls il
several boxes and that in the excite
ment at the pier one was not takel
out OF her trunk, but was sent to tn
hotel by mistake. l pleaded with Col
lector, Loeb to allow time for me to con
fer with her and investigate the case
but Mr.. Loeb said that he saw no rea
son TO make any exception. He SAT-
that the pearls must be taken from tn
hotel at once and that she must be ar
lraigned before the commissioner.
Loeb said her case would be a goo
example to other women who tried 4
evade the customs laws. He insiste,
that she be shown no leniency..
Mrs. Carson then presented lette
iof cerdit for G1.OOO on a big LondO
banking firm, and this was accepted a
bail.
After she had gone through all tn
rigors. of the presentation and wa
through for the day, she did not wan
TO return to the Walcott Hotel, becaus
she feared reporters and said that sh
wanted to evade publicity
She was in a highly nervous stat
when she went to the BroZtell, but
had no idea that she would try to xii
herself. She was a woman of refine
ment and accomplishments.
Mrs. Carson asserted to me that sh
she had loose pearls, and that she ha
officials.
She left San Francisco last Angus
and had made trip around the world
Her mother and sister are i'll at thei