The Washington times., 1921-09-05
GRIEF OVER
HOME LIFE
IS MOTIVE
FOR DEATH

Husband Missing, Mrs. Loretta
] Dwyer Successful in Second
Attempt on Life
The eternal triangle caused
another tragedy in Washington to-
day.
Brooding because she believed her
husband had deserted her for another
woman, Mrs. Loretta Dwyer, thirty
nine years old, of 2916 N street
northwest, hanged herself to a rafter
in the cellar of her home early this
morning. 3
Found by Young Son.
Harry, Harry, come quick; mann
mas hanging In the cellar" walled
ten-year-oh Paul, o son, who was the
first to find the body of the woman.
Mrs. Dwyer was dead. Around, her
neck was bed sheet.
,-. This In not the first time Mrs.
Dwyer attempted suicide. Several
months ago. she inhaled illuminating
gas In her home. but her seventeen
year-old son, Harry, discovered her in
the act and turned off the flow of gas.
Elmer F.. Dwyer, a plasterer> hus.
band Of the dead woman. left home at
8 o'clock yesterday morning. Up until
a late hour today, he had not returned.
1t is believed Mrs. Dwyer waited up
for him until long after midnight and
then committed suicide.
Boy Tells Of Discovery.
when I got up this morning, !
went down stairs to find Mamma
said little Paul Dwyer describing how
he found his mother, Mamma always
sleeps on the first floor, but she
wasn't there when l came down. l
called up to my big brother Harry
that mamma wasn't here and he told
me to look in the cellar.
81 opened the cellar door and I saw
mamma hanging. l called Harry and
Elmer QElmer is a fourteen.year-old
SOM and we went down the cellar.
Mamma had a piece Of rag or some
thing around her neck"
The three children, Harry. Paul
and Elmer, removed the body OF tho
mother to a bed on the second floor.
A doctor was summoned and the wom-
an pronounced dead.
Philip May, father of the dead WON.
an, lies at the point of death in the
Georgetown University Hospital. The
father will not be told of the death
OF his daughter.
The dead woman has four children,
Paul. ten years old; Elmer, fourteen
years old; Ethel, fifteen years old, and
Harry, seventeen years old.
Worried because she feared she
might be called upon to testify
against her two brothers in a suit
against them promised by her hus-
band, Mrs.. Dwyer once before, a few
weeks ago, attempted suicide by in
haling gas at her M street home
while her husband and three chill
dren were enjoying the amusements
of Glen Echo without her.
On that occasion Mrs. Dryers
sixteen. .year-old son, Harry, who re-
turned home before his father and
the other children, found her uncon-
scious from the fumes coming from
the kitchen range. He Immediately
called DR.. William j. Stanton and
Mrs. Dwyer regained consciousness
just as her husband reached home.
Worried by Suits.
The family trouble she feared would
follow in the wake of the suit against
her two brothers, Arthur MAY, who |
conducts a stall in the o Street Mar.
ket. and Charles May, who is likewise i,
engaged at 429 Seventh street south !
west, is believed to have caused Mrs. |
Dwyer's first attempt upon her own |
life.
Early last March, according to her |
brothers. Mrs. Dwyer is said to have |
told them that her husband was not !,
conducting himself as becoming a hus-
band.
The brothers were angered at the |
story she gave them and few nights
later sought to discuss the situation |
with Dwyer. They went to the Dwyer |
home, but found Dwyer had gone to q |
movie house In Georgetown.
Dwyer IL said to have been in COM
pany with young woman when he |
left the theater, and the two
brothers approached him. In the dis |
cussion that followed. Dwyer then |
charged he was attacked by the May |
brothe' 4. Dwyer spent several days
under dental treatment for a broken
Jaw ind the dislocation Of several
teeth.
IL affidavits Dwyer had his III. |
teen.year-old daughter, Ethel. and
her playmates prepare, az the only |
witnesses 20 the street fight, charge
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