The Detroit times., 1912-03-20
WOMAN SMUGGlER ENDS
HER LIFE BY HANGING
Mrs. Blanche M. Carson, of San
Francisco, Kills Self in
Sensational Manner

NEW YORK, March, 20.-Temporar-
lily insane because OF her arrest for
smuggling, Mrs. Blanche M. Carson,
the widow OF Edwin Carson, a wealthy
San Franciscan, hanged herself in a
sensational manner today. She flea
from the Hotel Wolcott where she
had been living since her arrival from
Europe, last Monday, after she wiz
arrested last night. After registering
at the Hotel Broztell, Fifth-aye. and
Twenty -seventh-st., she was given a
room on the eighth floor on the Fifth
ave. side.
The woman brooded all night over
her predicament and the loss of her
jewelry valued at $4,000 which mad
been seized by the federal authorities.
Finally. early today she arose, put
pale blue lounging robe over her
nightdress, and got a long trunk rope.
One end of It she securely fastened
to the radiator in her room. she
placed II about her neck, opened the
window Of her room and jumped out.
How long her body hung there,
swaying from side TO side, dangling
high above the pavement, lS not
known. II was discovered by occu-
pants OF the fashionable Knickerbock-
err apartments, who notified the hotel
management. The woman had been
dead for some time when the body.
was taken back into the room.
The coroners' office was notified and
search OF the woman's effects revealed
$I,24O In cash, and letters addressed
TO many residents OF Pacific coast
cities. including one to her brother,
Paul r. Mayberry, of No. 9l9 West
TSenty-eighth-st., Los Angeles.
The woman arrived here Monday
morning on the steamer George Wash
ington OF the North German LLOYD
line. She went to the Hotel Wolcod
and gave the name OF Mrs. Blanche
NJ Carson, and her address as No. go
Gough-st., San Francisco.
The woman was fashionably dress
ed, apparently about so, and plainly
Woman OF culture. She had declared
loose pearls on which she placed
valuation of $500, which, she said. she
paid for them while travelling III
India. The expert appraiser and other
officials who saw the pearls imme-
diately put their value at many Ihod-
sand dollars and they sent the gems
OF the appraisers stores. = YESTERDAY,
when called before Surveyor Henry,
the woman confessed the pearls were
much more valuable than she had
said, and also that she had Struggled
in two diamond earrings in the liaing
of her hat. She turned all OF her
iewelry over to the officials and tear
fully confessed her sorrow.
When Henry announced that she
was under arrest and she was taken
before United States Commissioners
Carpenter in Jersey City. the woman
collapsed. Because she had admitted
the facts her ball was placed at only
$4,000 which was promptly iurilshCu
by her attorney. Harrison OsbeIDe
She went back 10 the Wolcott ana
paid her bill. She then went 10 the
Hotel Broztell where she later hangeh
herself.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 20.-Mrs.
Edwin Carson, who committed suicide
In the Broztel hotel, New York. TINS
morning, was the widow OF EDWIN
Carson, and was one OF the most
prominent club women OF this city
She left here last August on tour
OF the world. She-w supposed 10
have left Paris on March 13 for inc
United States, and the report that
she arrived from Bremen, puzzles her
sister, Miss MaybeFFys
Mrs. Carson was scheduled to de-
liver q lecture before the Century
club here on her return.
A free entertainment of music and
literary features will be given in the
Y, w. C. A. auditorium, Thursday
evening, by the Philoxene club. OF the
First Presbyterian church. An ar