Norwich bulletin., 1921-09-24

New York, Sept 23.-Shot and wound- ed three times by her former. chum. who then ended her own life with e bullet. Miss Mildred l.. Hsnan. daughter of the late Alfred P. Hanan, shoe manufactir- err tonight lowered b,.xeen life and death in Brooklyn hospital. With the outcome of the girls injuries still in doubt. police took up a back trail from the scene of the nocturnal tragedy into the world Of high life" blamed by Miss Hanans assailant, Mrs. Grace Lawes, for the accumulated misery and heartache which impelled her to take her friends life
 ''The pace is too fast and the liquor has driven me crazy" she had written in letter addressed to her mother i Still another possible motive for the deed that of jealous rage over the at i tentions or a man who was with Miss Hanan when the shooting occurred, is being scrutinized by detectives who are trying to clear up many unexplained i D ints
 For more than three hours, this man. John s. Borland, importer and exporter, was questioned regarding details of the affair as well as the circumstances of his acquaintance with the two women. | 4 further complication developed when San Fran rs1o newsPaDermen rep -rted ] L. F.. Dittmar. to whom, calling her mother, darling" Mrs. Lawes had addressed a letter found among her effects
 Mrs. DIttmar at first denied any re- lationshiD and then told her questioners
 she was a sister of the dead woman and volunteered the information that jealousy
 was not the motive of the killing. This information was at variance witr lboth the salutation of the mother. uarI- ], ing letttr, and the contents Of another addressed to Mrs. L4awes had also beer
 a member for four years.
 Make it easy for my darling mother. , Mrs. Lawes had written in the second letter. which began with a request tha her body be sent home to California ere mated.
 The stories of the tragedy and th
 events preceding 1t told by the injure' girl and Borland. a Dartmouth gradu 1 ate, coincided closely. With Miss DlT '. othy Gottschalk, Miss Hanan told detec ' tives. she and Borland had dined at he
 own home in one of the most exclusiv residential districts of Manhattan. " "'s At II last night. she said. she and BoI ,, land drove Miss Gottschalk to her hom VI in Schermerhorn street, Brooklyn, wheI '- they stayed until shortly after or
 o'clock
 We had just emerged from the vest ,t bule when I saw Mrs. Lawes step froi = an area way Miss Hanas continued - The next thing I heard three pisti D shots. I dropped to the sidewalk an
 when I got up I saw blood running frol Fl my arm.
 h ''I ran for a hundred feet and collapi - ed then heard another shot fred
 It was the last shot that ended u
 life of Mrs Lawes.
 One other person witnessed the tra' ,- edy A neigh5or cf Miss Gottschalk m said she was at her window and sa ,d Mrs. Lawes sit down on nearby stoo 7s take q cup from her hand bag, driT
 something from it and then dash the ve
 sel into the gutter.
 Searchers later found fragments of | .d china and in the dead woman's bag 7d phial labelled with the name of drug 7d Borland while admitting that he al
 Mrs Lawes had qarreled ever Mi
 Hanan, emphatically denied that al
 feeling concerning himself had led 4 the shooting. IT. He said the motive was positively T 1u jealousy expressing the belief that s o was temporarily derangad mentally
 Mrs. Lawes was related to Miss H
 nan by marriage and lived with [ by IIanan family until two weeks ago wh -es she moved to an apartment at the Va aw derilt Hotel. She was ivorced seve1 de years ago from her husband Edgar re- Schmitt and resumed her maiden nal
 of Lawes.