New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-29
WOMAN STABBED
70 TIMES; PHONES
FOR HELP; DIES
Mrs. w. H. Fox's Last
Words Heighten Mystery
in Riverside Tragedy.

Stabbed to death yesterday after
noon in one of the huge apartment
houses taat overlook the Hudson and
Riverside Drive, Mrs. Grace Fox's last
gasping words did little to help solve
the mystery surrounding her death.
The police declare she took her own
life. Physicians at the Knickerbocker
Hospital, where she died Of more than
twenty wounds, say that some Of her
injuries could not have been self-in-
flicted. No weapon was found.
After examining the body in the
Morgue, Inspector Faurot thought that
Mrs. Fox had taken her own life. He
based his belief partly on the wounds
themselves and partly on conflicting
stories told by Mrs. Fox in explanation
of her injuries.
There are sixteen stab wounds on
her neck, for the most part on the
right side. There is a wound behind
her right shoulder, about six inches
below the base of the ear. Whether
this wound has a downward course, as
though self-inficted, has not been de-
termined. Between the index finger
and thumb OF each hand is a cash, that
on the right hand being the deeper.
Mrs. Fox, with her husband. William
H. Fox, who Is manager of the Four
teenth Street branch of the National
Cash Register Company, lived in Apart
ment 33. on the third floor OF Beacon
Hall, 6l8 West l42d Street. They had
been married twelve years and were a
devoted couple. Several times each
day one or the other Of them would
call the other up. Mrs. Fox was ctudl-
GUS and home-loving, and her friends
refuse TO believe that she took her own
life.
Mr.. Fox. Inspector Faurot was told,
! is brother Of the late Della FIX. an
actress.
( About 8 o'clock yesterday afternoon
! there WAS fash on the switchboard
/ of the apartment house. The operator,
, Samuel Woodson, put down his maya
/ zine and indolently lifted the receiver
/ TO his ear
Help Call on the Phone.
/ He heard q strsngling call for help
I Ii came from Apartment 80, the cosey
i little three-room home into which the
/ sun was then slanting. According to
/ one story Sam Understood Mrs. Fox
/ 10 say that she had fallen and hurt
herself The police refused 70 disclose
. what they learned Of that call.
Sam dropped the receiver as though
\ II burned him, and ran 10 the elevator
/ ha
/ Fox apartment and knocked on the
( door. at first lightly, and then with
resouuding blows. There was no re,
sponse, and Sans eagerness waned
rapidly. He extended himself on the
floor and applied his eye to crack
beneath the door
The little foyer hall and the bath
room were within his view. lie could
only see the floor. That was all Sam
wanted 10 see. Across the bathroom
threshold a red stream was creeping
and il crept straight for Sam.
& once more he leaped for the elevator,
and the speed he made going up was
nothing 20 his downward record. In
J the basement he found William Beagle!
superintendent Of the building, and
/ told him what he had seen. They ran
70 the street and found two patrolmen
/ -Coogan and Kenny, Of the West l5Zd
Street station.
Police Force Door.
/ With the patrolmen the two men re-
j turned 20 the third floor. The patrol
men broke the door down and entered
/ In the bedroom, lying across the bed
and clad in a nightgown, was Mrs. FOX
/ riddled with stab wounds. She was
semi-conscious and gasped something
which was later said 10 be request
TO make sure that her money was safe
/ Regarding this statement, too, the po'
! lice m .ntsined secrecy.
Her money was found n the drawer
OF a desk Several valuable rings were
on her fingers md the bureau was lit
tered with knick-knacks and jewelry OF
more or less value.
Ds. Flascola who answered an am
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