The Washington times., 1913-09-04
I1|RL; ;N|EE TRIES
TO END HERL|FE
Deserted By Her Husband,
Estranged From Sister, She
Fights Doctors. .

WhSn 1uhdn Oileyuocns n preIly SHl-
Dride Of nineteen drank carbclic acid
and fought the doctors when they tried
TO save her. she struggled to add a
final chapter to as sordid tale Of
marital unhappiness as ever rose from
the little section that lies to the east
of the navy yard -.-s..
While her sister, Mrs. Fannie Allen,
was away from the Allen home at 12t6
Ninth street southeast yesterday after
noon. the girl went to a corner drug
store, purchased a half ounce Of car
bolic acid. and walked back home to
die. She had just been told that her
husband, Antonio Greyboch, a private
in the Marine Corps, who less than a
month ago is said to have wronged her,
had been missing from the Washington
Barracks for five days
The girl was penniless. She had mar
ried Greyboch, her sister declared, to
save him from the penitentiary. Grey
boch was about to be posted as de-
serter, her sister was also without
funds. and she had reached her limit
in city not her home,
Drank Nearly All
lirs. Greyboch, with the bottle Of
poison in her hand, calmly walked to
the kitchen of the Allen home and
frank nearly all the acid. She scream
ed with pain as it burned her, and
neighbors ran to her assistance. An
ambulance was summoned from Casual
L. Hospital and surgeons gave quand-
ties of opium in an effort to save her
life.
She struggled violently to prevent first
aid treatment.
Il don't want to live; please let me
die!" She pleaded
For more than two hours the surgeons
worked before they finally pronounced
her out of danger. and the girl still lies
at the hospital, owing her life solely to
5the fact that she did not drink enough
of the poison to make her present con-
ditiorl critical The girl does not want
TO live, and the surgeons say that alone
would make, the case serious, IL she had
taken enough OF the acid.
In the kitchen of the Allen home they
found a note TO her sister, which read:
Il am taking my life. Please, Fanny,
forgive me for what | said, l dla no,
have been crazy. Tear up my marriage
papers and don't tell anybody In New
York Lam a-married woman. / hope
you. win forgive me before dis;
Word OF the attempted suicide is
being kepl from the aged father of
the kira in New York. Mrs. Allen is
In financial circumstances not Of the
best She lis the wife OF a seaman
stationed at the Washington Navy
Yard and she has sold her furniture
and moved TO furnished room
QuarTeled With Sister.
Added. to the troubles OF the girl
bride was, the. fact that several days
see,. she, and her, sister Quarreled-
They do not remember what started
the quarrel, but Lillian packed her
luggage and accepted shelter from
one Of the neighbors. She stayed
there for two IdaysNand then went
back TO ner sister. But. the quarrel
between them had. raised a barrier
and the girl seemed heart-broken
over the estrangement.,-
= II was then that she decided to buy
the csrbolic acid.
Lillian Greyboch came to Washing
ton from New York, nttle more than
She became acquainted with Grey
boeh, the, marine. who is said to have
wronged her. Relatives took up the
matter with the Washington police
Greyboch married the girl and almost
as quickly neglected her, the neigh
bors say.
He came TO the Allen home on Ninth
street, Mrs. Allen said. last Saturday,
saying that Monday was his pay day,
and that he'd see that his wife received
her shsfe OF his salary.
y Did Not Go Back.
He did not 90 bacI marine bar
racks, from what can be learned. II |
he doesn't return before next wednes-
day. be will be posted as a deserter |
and action taken against him. \
So when Lillian Greyboch took the |
poison she took IL with full knowl- |
edge that, life held very little joy for |
her In the future. |
She was q 2irl-wife at nineteen. Her
husband was believed to be a deserter.
He is said TO have Wronged her before
marriage and she lacked the funds to |
return to her people.
Her sisters home was broken by poy-
Crty, and there was nowhere she could |
20. That was partly why Lillian Grey
boch looked out the kitchen window. |
down toward the gray water of the |
hranch and triad m die