The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-22
HElRESS FLEES
 HOSPITAL; DIES
 BY TAKING GAS
Daughter of Wealthy Plant CT, a Suicide on Eve of
 Voyage.

i New York, Sept. 22.-Miss Marina
 van der Linde, the daughter of the
 late Jacob van der Linde, a wealthy
 planter of San Domingo, committed sucide yesterday afternoon by gtnhaing
 gas in her temporary lodging rooms at
 168 West 123rd Street. She had never recovered from the effects of the star
 Vation and exposure experienced in
 her three days wanderingS in the
 woods near Amityville, L. T., after her
 esca pc on Sept. 10 from Iouden Hall;
 a private sanitarium there.
 i Miss van der Einde. who was 36
 years old, had ybeen sufferer from
 melancho1ia for the last ten years, or
 since the death of her father Hoping
 to find cure for the woman, her
 younger sister, Miss Anita van der Linde, brought her from the family
 estate at San Pedro, Marcoris, San Domingo, to New York about a. year ago and placed her in a, sanitarium near Trenton, N. J.
 i On Sept. 1 last Miss Anita removed i her sister to Louden Hall, from which place she disappeared on Sept. 10. For three days the Long Island police and John E. van der Linde,1 the missing won1an,s brother searched the vicini-- I #ty of AmitMyille to find the wandering woman. They were unsuccessful, but I on Sept. 13 Miss Marina appeared at the farmhouse of D. H. Hein, in the Merrick road, about a mile from the sanitariun. She had had neither food nor drink, and was weak and emaciat-. led MT. Hein notified the brother, who at once returned her to the sanf-. taFiun. & l Besides being physically and men tally i'll from exposure, Miss van der Linde was greatly depressed 4 She told | her sister and brother that she had lsickness and that she thought she would improve if she could return to her mother, who was at the San Do rningo estate. So the brother engaged passage to San Domingo on the steam l ship Algonquin of the Clyde line which ! sails tomorrow, and, because his sis ] ter seemed anxious to leave the sani- tarium, he engaged rooms for her, himself, and Miss Anita at 168 West 1 125d street. 1 Miss van der Linde seemed to in4 prove at once,A and became less melan- eholy than she had been for ten years. i She seemed stimulated by anticipation of returning to her home, her only ap- prehension being fear that she was not strong enough to stand the voy- age. But she apparently overcame l this fear. and yesterday afternoon made out list of articles needed for the trip, which she asked her sister to go put and purchase.
 The brother was out, and Miss Anita hesitated to leave her sister alone, but
 
 ing the purchases made, and her con dition was so greatly improved, that Miss Anita consented to go. after ask ing Miss Margaret Smith, lodger in the house. to look after Miss Marina. For~hah an hour or 50 after Miss Anita had gone, Miss Marina chatted with Miss Smith in the latter's apart ment, and then she said she would go to- her own room and lie down. Miss l Smith went to the van der Linde apartment several times to inquire af- ter Miss Marina, and receiving a re- assuring answer each time, finally dis, continued her intermittent calling. When Miss Anita returned to the apartment late in the afternoon she detected the odor of gas before she had l unlocked the front door. When she opened the door, she saw her sisters body lying on the floor of the front room with the teeth closed on a rubber tube attached to the burner Of a gas heater,
 l pr. Harold A. Cohen of i, ,9SO Seventh avenue and Dr. Jennings of Harlem hospital worked over the woman with a pu1motor for more than an, hour. but could not revive her. The body will be taken to- San Domingo on the steamer on which she was to Lave returned to her mother 6,.