The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-02-17
DRIVEN BY WANT
MOTHER KILLS CHILD
ATTEMPTS FIVE TIMES TO END
OWN LIFE. SITS FOR TWO
DAYS BY TINY CORPSE.

NEW YORK.-In her room, high
up in the Hotel Ashton. late Friday
night, Mrs. Emily May Favre, young
New Orleans woman. wrote letter.
Written, while the gathering biz
zard beat against the window, as
though in protest, the letter stated
that poverty had come to the young
woman, and that she had planned
to kill her daughter, Margaret, 10
years old, then kill herself.
1t was IL o'clock when Mrs. Favre
stood in the swirling snow at the
hotel, corner Madison avenue and
Ninety-third street, and dropping the
missive into the snow topped mail
box, started it on it's way to Hector
Jackson, a friend at % Broadway.
She then went back to the bedside
of her daughter, convalescing from
influenza.
Had the letter gone forward nor
mally this story would not have
been written, but fate, in the storm
bound city, was opposed, and SO it
was not until Monday, about sixty
hours later, that the missive reached
its destination, but too late.
At 10 O'Clock Saturday morning,
as she herself later told it, the moth
er leaned over Margaret's bed, and
placed a revolver over the spot
where she judged the heart must be.
Looking into her daughters sleep
ing face the woman pulled the trig-
ger once.
She had judged the position of
the heart correctly.
Then she placed the muzzle against
her own forehead, but. her nerve
failed, and the revolver slipped from
her trembling finger to the floor
Three times she had picked it up,
and numbly tried again, but each
time the weapon dropped to the
hooI.
The fifth time the gun was firmly
at her temple, and her hand had
ceased to tremble.
But that was on Monday, and the
letter had arrived, while a man, hur-
rying to answer it, tore the revolver
from her hand.
! For two days she had sat beside
/ the body of her little girl.
Mrs. Favre, short, thin and pale,
is an English girl, reared in a Cana
dian convent, but living for the last
! fifteen years, at least, IN New Or
leans.
Her father, John Sutherland, Can.
adian lumberman, formed the Inn OF
Unconstitutional, an export cooper
age concern, with branches in many
cities. :,
One of the branches was in the
Louisiana city, and about fifteel
wears ago the then Miss Sutherland
accompanied her father on trip tt
New Orleans.
While there she had met Simon
Favre, also in the cooperage busl'
ness. They were married, but were
parted by divorce thirteen years past,
at about the time that Margaret
Favre was born.
A fourishing business, built up
and maintained by her father, kept
Mrs. Favre from ever knowing want;
She lived in this style up to several
years ago, when her father died
She inherited a one-third share IN
the Innes-Sutherland firm, but the
earnings dwindled to nothing.
Then she came to New York, hop
ing to get theatrical engagements
| for herself and daughter, but she
failed and her money ran out.
Down through the disappearing
snow, that had halted her letter and
prevented friends from intervening
to prevent the tragedy, she was taken
/ to the station.
" On her wav she told detectives
that she had not eaten since Friday
night and when she reached the sta
ton the police obtained food for her.
Not once did she leave the room
after killing her child, the mother
said, but as time wore on she would
lean over and kiss the dead girl.
The first and the second night she
had not felt sleepy, but had lain down
beside the body, Cooking at the WallS
and ceiling and thinking and think