The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1913-08-22
MYSTERY SHROUDS
SU|C|OESOF TWO
ATTRACTIVE GIRLS
Coincident With Identification
q Miss Edith Rea Another
Body Is Found.
CALLS SELF MISS BURNS.
RegiSterede From Philadelphia,
but Indications Point to
Residence in New York.
CALLS SELF MISS BURNS.

~ herself IN the head In . beach
hSesi at Atlantic City. will probably be
Oossed In Newark. n. j.. from where her
Oothsr. herself and her sister Elisabeth
wat last September. to live at No. -
Gsoliwosth place. Fiatbusb. The
mother and sister. who Identified the
body yesterday. declared that they could
net assign any cause for the dead girls
~.
The body. OF miss Elizabeth Burns"
which was discovered in her room at
the Hotel Islesworth. only a short dis
tAnce from the hotel where the remains
Of Misc Rea were found. has not yet
beon identified. While the girl regis
ears6 from Philadelphia. the police are
satisfied that she was from New York.
6er the reason that her clothing was
beught here, A. were some Of the
ts1nksts found on the body.
The two girls. nearly of the same age.
10th young. pretty and well dressed.
went TO Atlantic City within twenty
S0of hours OF each other. each to end
Aeg lie for some reason. which UP to
ne present 10 unknown. Miss Rea took
. room IN one Of the hotels on the beach.
ths Identity Of which the police refuse
20 disclose. She was in a cheerful mood.
apparently happy. The only cloud on
her mood was visible when she found
fault with the room assigned to her
Next day she was found dead In bed.
with An ugly pistol wound In her head.
SEcoND SUICIDE FOUND As
FIRST 10 IDENTIFIED.
'~Miss Burns" registered at the Isles
worth on wednesday afternoon. the day
on which the body Of Miss Rea was
found. Soon after the Identification OF
Miss Rea by her widowed mother. Mrs.
Isabella Rea. and the dead girls sister
the body Of "Miss Burns was discov-
cred In bed In her room. There was
still q little breath In tho body. but all
attempts to revive her failed. She had
been most deliberate In her preparations
for dsath.
She slit q hot water bag In half and
after attaching q rubber tuba to 1t. and
connecting one end with q gas Jet. she
fastened the two sides OF the bag about
her face. yinK them with her silken
shoe strings. Then she turned on the
gas. went to bed. and with her head
propped up on the pillow. calmly waited
Cor the end.
Yesterday Abraham Goldman. a guest
from Philadelphia, occupying room
next to that OF Miss Burns" detected
the odor OF Sas. ana notified the hotel
people. The door OF the girls room
was broken open and the body was
opund on the bed. with Just the slight
- sisn Of life apparent. Doctors were
summoned and they worked over the
Glsl for several hours using a pulmotor.
without resvscttauDG the victim.
oNogs HAD MARKS OF FIFTH
AVENUE DEALER.
s7no Burns" had used the same care
o hide her Identity as had Miss Rea.
She cut ell the initials out Of her cloth
tnG and her handkerchief. IL her Shoes
wore the marks OF the store on Fifth
avenue. New York. where she had
bought them.
When the glrl appeared at the hotel
On Wednesday afternoon. she was at.
tired In q dark tailor-made suit and
carried . small travelling bag. Among
her effects was = dainty Tiffany watch
ahout the size Of quarter studded
With diamonds and set In platinum. The
body still lies at the Morgue awaiting
Identification.
Mrs. Rea and her daughter Elizabeth
told the police Of Atlantic City that
they were AZ loss TO account for the
suicide OF Edith. She had always been
Of q happy disposition and was most
cheerful when she left home on Tues
day morning to 20 to work In Man.
haitian.
The Reas occupy the lower floor of a
two story white brick house at No.
60 kenilworth place. Flitbush. The up
per story 10 occupied by Mr.. and Mrs,
Harold Using and their seven-year-old
sou. Mrs. Ising said this morning that
the Reas came to Flatbush from New
ark. N. j., last September. The mother
and daughters were mach attached to
ono another and the girls received very
little company.
DEAD GIRL WAS EMPLOYED IN
A BANK IN MANHATTAN.
Miss Edith. the dead girl. was em-
ployed In q bank in Manhattan as a
stsnographer. Three weeks ago she
had her vacation, She remained at
home, but went away, usually, for a
day's outing with her mother botn re-
turning IN TIE even!ns 10 meet Eliza.
beth. who 10 earf.oye! with the Rem
ington Typewriter Company IN this
city. Mrs, Using said that Edith was a
girl with a sweet disposition. She saw
her Monday evening and received q
plea SAINT saiutatlOn. She saw her leave
Oh TUESDAY morning ant says that the
girl departed In her usual good spirits
The father of the girls was IN Dust
ness in Newark up to Il year ago when
he died. HIS body Was cremated and
the widow ami the girls went to Flat
bush to live,
Once IN a while an automobile drove
up to the little white brick house. and
the mother and the girls would 20 out
riding. The auto carried a New Jersey
license. aud The nelshbors concluded
that It conta aimed friends Of the family
4So0 Newark.
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