Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-05

ter. although it was quite likely that
while they were busy she had come in
| and-as she often did-walked up the
stairs
| A call to the Mercer street police sta
ton brought Capt Dominick Henry and
Patrolmen Brennan and Donnell. just
as they arrived the mother, Mrs. White,
drove up to the house in her motor and
! joined the little group.
| The poIcemen's shoulders carried the
door off its hinges. A pile Of chairs was
| against it. slight odor of gas led the
Mr.. Servss opened the door. An instant
| later Mrs. White fell forward in faint
at the sight revealed.
| Fred and Louise Noble were lying on
| the floor, with their heads about foot
| from the opened oven Of the gas stove,
from which were pouring the fumes from
five wide-opened jets. The boys left
| arm was about the girls shoulders. his
mistakably dead. There was faint
trace of a smile on the wife's face, and
the husbands blue eyes were fully open
Followed Beattie's Example.
Mrs. Noble had on a purplish-red XII
mono, which covered her night robe. The
young man wore a white silk tennis shirt
dark trousers, black silk stockings and
no shoes.
There may have been something signifi-
cant about that white silk tennis shirt. A
electrocution in Virginia and describ-
ing it to them, spoke about his arraying
himself in such a garment instead of
some death habiliment.
by CAD! That was game"' said Fred
Noble at the time. If l ever go sud-
denly I'll wear my tennis Sill t."
The police searched the big double
apartment for some message. some writ
ing, but found nothing at all. In the one
bedroom Mrs. Mobiles long white fur coat
and muff, her hat and her outer clothing
lay in neat pile on the bed. which had
not been occupied. Beside them were
Fred's overcoat, coat, hat stick and
gloves, carefully folded, with cigarette
A little while after this search was
| finished Walter L. Suydam, the former
husband. drove down from his home at
East 10th street. He came SO fast that at
struck Edward Rappold. a postman. and
knocked him twenty feet. The man was
taken to the New York Hospital with a
possibly fractured skull.
Mr.. Suydam burst into tears as he
gazed upon his wife, with her long,
golden hair-her chief point Of attraction
lying loosely about her shoulders. To
the reporters, who arrived about this
time, he said:
There as a Friend.
There is nothing much for me to say.
except that I'm dreadfully sorry that
poor Louise's end has come like this.
She's not mine now. you know-she
hasn't been lately. I'm here only as a
friend to do what I cam
Then the young man victims father, H.
NJ. Noble, contractor. of 3S9 Decatur
street, Brooklyn, arrived to claim his
sons body He, too, wept bitterly as he
looked at the lifeless forms.
Poor Fred he sobbed. Il knew no
good would come of this whole affair.
and 1 told him so. But never thought
it would come to this
It appeared that the young husband
possibly had attempted suicide Friday
evening. That night Mrs. Noble tele-
phoned downstairs for DR.. Carroll to
come up quickly. He was not at home,
SO an outside physician was called.
When this doctor arrived he was told
everything was all right; he wasn't
needed
It was said that Mrs. White had re-
marked. upon recovering conscious
ness, 81 didn't think she would try it
again"
Earlier Attempt at Suicide.
This might have referred to attempts
at self-destruction which the girl told
intimate friends she had made while
she was still Walter Suydam's wife.
Once, she said, she had taken chloro-
form. another time mercury bichloride
tablets
The end Of the romance Of Fred
Noble and Louise suydam thus came in
ming. September they ran away
from the adjoining summer homes Of
their families at Blue Point. 1. I. A
| week later they were found dwelling
to hn tho Tn vuynA ali III
vorce papers were served upon them.
The divorce was granted and made
final January 8. In the interim all
their friends. even most OF the news
paper men who used to visit them So
cially after the first story was over.
had dropped away.
January they asked the one news
paper man with whom they were still
most friendly If he could arrange to have
them married that night. quietly and
| without publicity. He said he could Fred
Noble left the house on some errand OF
preparation. Mrs. Suydam Cor Mrs.
White, as she was then obliged to call
HERSELF became hysterical. In tears she
said:
No Love for Noble.
IT don't love that boy. I don't love
anybody in the world. never will love
anybody but Walter Suydam. He came
into my life when I was only seventeen.
He was the father of my children, who
died. He is everything to me, even
though, because he didn't give me all the
affection I needed, I thought I loved an
other-Fred. l won't marry Fred-I
WON'T"
The friend advised her to try to become
reconciled to her husband. to beg him, IL
necessary. to take her back. she tried.
She called up Walter Suydam. She was
sobhing out her love to him as the friend
| withdrew. But apparently her appeal
was unavail.ng.
| Next afternoon, entirely Unexpectedly,
| the young people called up their friend
again. They insisted that he make the
marriage arrangements at once. DO you
really want to do this?" the friend asked
| the young woman. 81 do she said. II
| probably won't be happy with Fred more
! than q year or so. but some people think
| it win give me some degree OF respect
| (scornfully) to be q married woman"
| Co that nieht they were married hY