The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-22

voted to each other. Her friends say,
however, that she constantly tried to
communicate with her husband through
spiritualists, and read spiritualism ex-
tensively.
On Sunday Mrs. Lee had dinner at
the Stapleton home. In the evening she
went TO the home of a friend, Mrs
Peter Smith, 1872 Elwood avenue, New
ark. she there appeared to be in a
cheerful frame of mind and talked with
enthusiasm about her prospective Christ
mas with her sister, Mrs. Henry Davis,
in Taylorville, Ill. She announced that
she intended starting for Illinois yester-
day and that she had made reservations
at the Pennsylvania Railroad station.
She remained at the Smith house all
Sunday night and left for New York
after telling Mrs. Smith that she was
going directly to the McAlpin, pay her
bill and go to the Pennsylvania station
and make arrangements for her bag
gage.
She paid her bill at the McAIpin at
noon Monday and took travelling bal
with her. She went TO the Pennsylvania
station sometime during the afternoon
or early evening. 1t is possible that she
went there directly from the hotel Thus
far. however, that is only conjecture
Whenever she left, she purchased re-
turn trip ticket What became of the
travelling bag is bit mysterious. No
check for It was found among her
effects.
At 9:15 Monday night the beach pa
troll passed the spot where fifteen min
utes later the body was found There
is an electric light on a tall iron stand
ard on the boardwalk near by. II was
burning when the patrol passed The
body was not there. There were no
noises noted. nor was any person seen
near that stretch Of the beach. There
are a number of seaside homes near by,
but all are closed. No hotels are in
that immediate vicinity. The nearest
hotels, like the private houses. are closed
for the winter.
Discovery OF Body.
At 9 80 Peter link of Rosedale and
his young son. George, and hired man.
Joseph Cosbandino. happened along
frost fishing. There on the sand, hatless
and with a slight trickle of blood flow
ing from cut below the right eye. lay
the body. The clothing and the hair
and even the small black turban near by
gave sufficient evidence that the woman
had been n the water or that the tide
had flooded her as she lay on the sand.
But the little handbag, which contained
a one dollar bill, s143 in silver and
copper and the return ticket to New
York dated by the ticket sellers stamp
Monday, was not wet. The sand had
drifted high beneath the concrete under
structure of the boardwalk. A two foot
tunnel has been ploughed through the
drift. and there are reasons to believe
that It was through this tunnel that
Mrs. Lee made her way to the beach
side of the structure. There were many
sharp imprints of her boots on the sand.
They appeared to describe circles. OBJ
viously the woman had been running.
There were no other footprints. There
was no bottle that might have contained
poison.
| Drs. Arthur d. Jacks and Aaron IT.
! Higgins, who performed the autopsy.
found nothing organically wrong with
the heart or other vital organs. The
lungs showed Mrs. Lee had not drowned.
There was no sign In the mouth nor
alimentary tract that suggested poison.
There were no marks of violence on the
body.
| DR.. John J: Collins, 134e Dean street.
| Brooklyn. who saw service with DR.. Lee
aboard the hospital ship Comfort, said
that If Mrs. Lee had killed herself it
probably was due to a breakdown re-
| sulting from her worry about her hus-
Dstlu uurlIS lHe lonB lliHesS ne incurred
by his X-ray work. He knew and he
had told her that the disease he had
developed - carcinoma was incurable
| and that eventually IL would kill him.
! Tho wife, It was explained, could not
reconcile herself to the fatalistic view
of the matter that the doctor took She
! seemed utterly crushed when he died. as
| ne predicted. last April.
! DIR. Lee received in 1898 the X-ray
burns that resulted in his death. He was
forced TO abandon his research work in
| 1905. Three years later one OF his
| fingers was amputated. Likewise a
tumor was removed from his chest. In
June, 1919. he was operated upon again.
! this time by celebrated specialists in
Johns Hopkins Hospital. II was then
discovered that his lungs had been af-
| fected.