Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-09-24

New York, Sept ga double
shooting in which women We're tnC
principals resulted early today II
the serious wounding Oh Miss Mil
dred Hanan, said to be a daughter
of the late Alfred +. Hanan,
wealthy head of Hanan and Son
shoe manufacturers by Mr.. Grace
Lawes, distant relative of Miss
Hanan and u daughter of Mrs. NJ
IL, Dittmar, Of San Francisco. Mrs,
LaWes hen committed suicide.
The shooting occurred in Brook
yn as Miss Hanan and John s.
borland, an exporter, emerged
II ON an apartment house where
they had been visiting. Borland
attributed the shooting to Jealousy
and admitted, the ponce said that
he had quarreled recently with
Mrs. Lawes about Miss Hanan.
After firing three bullets into
Miss Hanan's body, Mrs. Lawes
lthen shot herself in the head dying
instantly.
Miss Han4ns condition was rs
ported to be critical, but not
necessarily fatal. one Of the bull
let's took effect in the left breast,
near the heart, one in the left side
and one in the right arm.
Borland was unable to explain to
the police how Mrs. Lawes learned
he and Miss Hanan were visiting IN
Brooklyn.
They left the apartment about
gni1 nn1
Mrs. Lawes as they stepped to the
street.
without speaking, Mrs. Lawes
drew pisto. and fifed. she then
stood for a moment regarding
them, Borland said. Then she 1t
tered a scream, pressed the muzzle
of the pistol against her head and
fired.
Mrs. Lawes was n distant reia-
tive Of Miss Hanan. For four
years she had lived with Miss Ha-
nan and the latter's mother in an
apartment in the exclusive Park
avenue district of Manhattan. Two
weeks ago she moved to the hotel
Vanderbilt nearby. The police
said that she had sent several
threatening letters recently to
Miss Hanan.
Questioned at the hospital by de-
tectives, Miss Hanan declined to
say what led up to the shooting,
but gave the following description
OF the affair:
"Mr. John Borland, Dart
mouth university graduate, and en-
;,, thA inn mort and nXnnFf
business here; Miss Dorothy Gait
schalk, Brooklyn. and /, had dined
at my home last night. At IL p. m.
we arrived in my automobile at MISS
Gottschalk's home.
1--WE remained in Miss Gott-
schalk's apartments for two hours,
during which time we discussed
the general topics of the day. Mr.
Borland spoke of looking for
a apartments in Brooklyn, and his
business affairs.
I'VE had just emerged from the
vestibule when l saw Mrs. Lawes
step from an areaway on the left
of the entrance. The next thing |
heard was three pistol reports. l
dropped to the sidewalk and when
I got up l saw blood running from
my arm.
II ran for a hundred feet and
collapsed. I then heard another
shot fired. Mr.. Borland picked me
up and carried me to the steps of
a house on Schermerhorn street. A
policeman came running up. Mr..
Borland asked him to get an ann
bulance. l was brought up to this
hospital and that is all l can re-
In their endeavor to determine
whether Mrs. Lawes was a drug
addict, the police showed interest
IN an incident preceding the shoot
ng described by a woman neigh
Dor of Miss Gottschalk's.
This woman, who was looking
,ut of a window, said she saw Mrs.
Lawes sit down on doorstep.
'aise cup to her lips and then
lash It into the street. Detectives
found the china fragments and lat
er, in Mrs. Dawes bag. an empty
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