New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-25
Haunted by Eyes of Man
She Met, Singer Tries
TO End Life
SAVED FROM DEATH,
SHE WILL LOSE VOICE
LandIady Discovers Plight
by Accident and Sends
for Ambulance

4 Christmas package filled with
presents and bearing the card ITO
Pauline. with love from mother was
delivered at the rooming house at 23S
West Eleventh Street Saturday night.
The landlady took the package 10 the
room of Miss Pauline Robinson, and
the peculiar manner in which the young
woman received il led TO the discovery
at midnight that for more than forty
eight hours she had been in her room
with a CHASTITY wound across her throat.
The wound had been self-infcted with
razor.
In the eyes Of Miss Robinson her
throat was her chief treasure, for she
had come to New York ten months ago
with the ambition TO become great
singer. She had met with repeated
disappointments in this direction, and
her ambition is now doomed, for while
she is expected to recover from the
apparent attempt at suicide, the attend
ing physician says she will never sing
again.
Haunted BY Mans Eyes
At ST. Vincent's Hospital last night
Miss Robinson talked freely concerning
events OF the last three days. She
insisted that her professional disap-
pointment had nothing to do with her
desperate act.
ut was those eyes" she exclaimed,
and then explained that for several
weeks she had been receiving treatment
from chiropractor whose distinguish
ing Characteristic was not so much his
professional skill as the very
piercing" quality Of his eyes.
"Why. they followed me everywhere
/ vent she said. "An invisible
presence seemed 10 be with me always.
and when I'd look around in my room
al night I'd see those eyes. | met the
man several months ago and took sew
eral treatments from him for my gen
eral condition. | had been absent from
his Office about two months when he
sent me word he had a new machine
that would do me good. Six weeks ago
/ went back to him. His eyes had fol-
lowed me from the time ! first visited
him. Then | began to see things as
they really were.
"Smothered by Terrific Pressure
ut was peculiar. ! would be sitting
in my room when of a sudden I'd lee!
as if my whole consciousness were
being smothered under terrific pres
sure and mist hid everything. Then
the mist would lift and I'd really
understand for the first time the exact
meaning Of things. Some of these had
happened years ago and I'd forgotten
them. Things I'd thought were IN
significant developed terrible aspect.
81 spent most OF Thursday morning
in bed. | went out that afternoon TO
see an acquaintance and returned
little after o'clock. 1t was about
o'clock that ! had an irresistible I'M
pulse to cut my throat
When Miss Robinson's landlady took
the Christmas package up Saturday
night, her guest opened the door
little and handed out note when
read: you'd be scared TO see me now.
| have lost my voice" The package
was showed through the crack and the
landlady went down stairs. A short
while later she heard peculiar cough
ing and, already suspicious, climbed
son. a heavy towel wrapped around her.
throat. stood at the sink at the end OF
the gloomy hallway, gargllng her
throat with cold water. The landlady
followed the girl into her room and
found the bed covers stained with
blood. A police ambulance took the
girl to st. Nincent's, two blocks away.
Once Sang in Pink Lady
Miss Robinson is thirty-one years
old. Her parents live in Buffalo
where her father is a dentist. Her
maternal grandparents live in Bristol
Conn. and are said to be wealthy. A
brother. W. II. Robinson, is member
of the American Ambulance in France.
Four years ago the young woman was
a member of a road company when
played the pink Lady, She is sara
to have had other minor stage expert
/ ence.
She was member of the community
chorus which is to sing the messiah
al Madison Square tonight. She has
been employed as a filing clerk IN var,
Gus Offices. earning. on an average 81
! A week. The chiroprsctic treatmehIs
cost her So each. she said. Her efahu-
parents frequently sent her money