The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-09-19
DETAESOF CARTER
|. TRAGEDY RECEIVED
Bride Of Month Asphyxiates Huss
band and Herself When Part
ING Draws Near 1

Further details concerning the tragir
death Of Henry Dayton (.'sonny, )
Garter Of Hilo and his bride Of ons
month have been received from the
Coast. The ashes OF Carter win arriv,
here in the Lurline tomorrow for inter
ment. y I, z, Ft7a7 ERt
According 10 the reports the young
bride, who was passionately devoted IL
her husband faced the problem of be
ing separated from her husband by til,
sea or the alternative Of death. ! Il !,
In the long watches of the night thu
distraught woman struggled with thu
problem and no light breaking through
the gloom in answer to her prayers, sht
chose to meet death by asphy xiation
But she feared 20 60 on che long voyage
HAD Been Married One Month /
The couple had been living Mt Tho
Harrison Hotel, 466 Harrison street
San Francisco, where the, trpgedy oc
CURED. They had been married only }
month. Mrs Carter, who was Myrtle
White before her marriage, and twenty
years old, was 80 attached to young
Carter that she could not endure the
prospect Of. being left alone while hi
! followed his, trade as oiler ut sea.
When she Learned that he had signei
up TO 60 TO sea the young bride pleaded
| with him to seek other employment AND
ito remain with her. But Carter dit
not take the matter seriously and look
led upon the long voyage as part D.
the Days work. y II was not SO Will
| the desperate woman. 4 IRE " I'd %j
Bodies In Gas-Rilled Room ,:
The following morning they wer,
found in the gas-flled room. The womaI
was lying face down in the, bed and III,
man ON the floor. Evidently Carte
had been partially aroused and mad
an effort to get to the door. ~. E''5s3
The mute evidence of the grim TRACE
dy showed that the couple had retire.
4 early. After Carter had fallen asleel
| ii is believed that his wife lay AWAKE
! for n long time ipondering the problem
It is NOT unlikely that she prayed TO
help 10 her diRmma. Then the idea O
i the rash act entered her feyered mind
She arose from the bed while her hus
band slept and turned. ON the four gu
/ Jets in the room Then she lay dow
/ at the side Of her sleeping spouse will
the determination to die rather thai
endure q separatioh!that seemed to he
worse than death. ..,a5Jg. ~ IT,.
wanted Home and Children
| Those who knew the couple in tn
Coast city say. that the bride had de
j clared that death was preferable to ser
aratiop, a,blRsting Of her dream of
home and her hopes for children. Flo
both, her friends say, she expressed
passionate desire, Got$, ....i -
i The room In which the couple. died
tsaid to have N fatal record. A simila
| tragedy was enacted in the room fou
years ago, roomers Of the hotel say
when a man shot and killed himself b.
eauss of an unhappy love. TX
!, According TO police records Mrs. Ca
| ter; then Miss Myrtle White, once b,
fore attempted to take her own life. A
the time she despaired because she wa
forced to work as cabaret entertainf
in a San Francisco cafe. ~ !,
4 Dayton Carter was the son of Mr.
Carter tnee jones' Of Hilo, and Jane
O. Carter, wen known Hilo eontracto
who died in the Second i City som
mouths hgo. Dayton was Ftwenty-tw
and the third Oldest child in o famil
Eof Inips s9Rs fna ere esyelter