New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-20
.BADJOB,SAYSGIRL.
WHOFAILEDTODI
Bride of a Week, Fearing
Love Gone, Tried Suicide
as Best Remedy.
TO RETURN TO INN
AND OLD FRIENDS
Young Wife, Already Using
Maiden Name, Will Seek Dr.
vorce and Start Again.
From star Correspondent Of IN. Tribune.

tfr"m St4I Correspondent of The Tribune
Stamford. Conn, Dec. 19.-Sitting up
for the first time since she tried to end
her life week ago, Lydia Wesselink
to-day told all the hows and why's of
married life that began happily. lasted
for seven days and was brought to
close by her attempted suicide. Dressed
in pink negligee and with her hair
done in curls on top Of her head, she
laughed and said she was happy to-day
because the doctor had just told her
she probably could leave the hospital
in time to have Christmas dinner with
her sister.
Until week ago Miss Wesselink-
she prefers her maiden name-was the
proprietor of the Chick Ian tea room,
near Darien. She had been married
recently to Andrew Taylor, a local liv-
eryman. Her friends believed she was
happy. One afternoon, when alone in
her bedroom, she shot herself above
her heart badly aimed, as she ex-
presses it. and was brought here TO the
hospital from Darien in a critical con-
dition. Her statement yesterday was
the first she has been able TO make.
1--WE had been married exactly seven
days" she said, "and then he confessed
that he cared nothing for me. What
was there for me TO do? Nothing, ex-
cept 10 put myself out Of the way.
couldn't understand il, and | didn't try
very hard to. ! simply went into my
room and got the revolver. II ! hadn't
been so nervous | wouldn't have aimed
so poorly. ! hope people won't be too
severe with me when | get out. | did
the best knew how TO do"
Asked if she would divorce her nus
band, Miss Wesselink said:
"Oh, of course. Really, | don't know
why | married him. lie is much older
than | am and he isn't so terribly at
tractive, even if | am the third woman
who has been silly enough to marry
him. We had know each other year,
and all during that time he begged me
to be his wife.
"Finally | consented, and we went TO
New Rochelle and were married. After
a few days we returned to Darien, and
were very happy. Then one day hi told
me he was tired of me and he in
tended to go away FOR visit. was
thunderstruck. That is my story and
this is the result"
Miss Wesselink pointed TO where a
red scar showed above the top of her
negligee. 81 may never be able to use
my arm again" she added.
"Oh, no." interrupted her nurse.
"The doctor said this morning that per-
haps your arm would be just as good
as it ever was"
Lets all hope for the best" laughed
Miss Wesselink. 81 didn't do very
good job, did !? The next time l
shan't be so nervous"
as there going to be next timer"
81 hope not, but there will be if the
newspapers don't stop writing about
me. Just as soon as | get out | am
going back home and see If ! can't run
my tea room again. ! am sure all my
old friends will stand by me-"
Miss Wesselink bears no i'll will
toward her husband, although she
would be just as contented, she says,
if she never saw him again.
Taylor denied last night that his af-
fections for his bride of one week had
changed, and could not explain the
shooting. He has not been to the hos
pital to see his wife, nor has he in
quired about her condition, it is said.