New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-24
Seek Motive
For Shooting
Miss HIanan
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ranged. The letter to Mrs. Dittmar
said
You never can understand what I
hsve gone through. Don't try to learn.
| am too tired and i'll to try to over
ccme the great obstacles I have placed
IN my own way. Too much high life.
The pace is too fast and the liquor has
driven me crazy, dear. Forgive and
! forget, and, remember, pray for my
soul.
Love to all, and think of me as
always was to you. a good, sweet
daughter. Lovingly. GRACE"
The other letter was addressed to
Miss Billie Williams, a nurse, at 514
! Madison Avenue, New York City. 1t
read:
I'm case of an accident to me, will
you please notify Mr.. Walter Dunning-
ton, at Nassau, Rector 4410, 437 Madi-
son Avenue, Madison Square Hotel?
Have him cable Ethel to take charge of
my affairs. Send me home to Califor-
darling, sweet mother. Don't let her
know the truth, dear. Can't stand this
sordid tinsel life any longer. The
Hanans are too fast and furious for me.
Forgive me, Billie, for all my mis-
! takes, and remember me as sweet and
clean as was at 270 THAR Avenue. Been
, too much liquor and conversation on
ali sides. Notify Mrs. M. E. Dittmar,
BIG Walnut Street, San Francisco. NV
Avenue and Fifty-ninth Street. The
black leather jewel case is in the safe
and my rings are gone, and l sold the
ticket. All my trunks are at the hotel
storeroom. If my clothes and toys are
! at Hanan's send them to mother, please
| sent ruby ring to John Borland of
Mildred to give him yesterday. / drew
almost all of my. money out of the
Hartman National Bank. Spent $500.
GRACE
Mrs. Lawes, Miss Hanan told the po-
lice, had written her several letters
since leaving the Hanan place at Shore
ham. These, Miss Hanan said she re-
garded as emotional rather than threat
ening.
Miss Williams, who frequently had
been employed as a nurse in the Hanan
family, was engaged yesterday to care
for Miss Hanan at Long Island College
Hospital
Manhattan detectives who searched
Mrs. Lawes's room at the Hotel Van
derbilt last night found box which
had contained fifty cartridges, ten of
which were missing. letter from a
relative also was found.
Borland, who is said to be a graduate
of Dartmouth College, lives at SO West
Fourth Street. Manhattan. Miss Gott
chalk was a schoolmate of Miss Hanan.
s~iss Hanan is twenty-five years old
and Mrs. Lawes was thirty 1.-TWO.
Mr.. Huntington, mentioned in Mrs.
Lawes's letter TO Miss Williams, said
last night that Mrs. Lawes was the
sunt of Miss Hanan's stepmother, Mrs.
Fl. Marbury Taylor, former wife of the
late Alfred p. Hanan. Hanan's first
wife, who is known as Mrs. Clara Ha-
nan, divorced him There were two
children by that marriage, Alfred P.
jr, a member of the firm of Hanan &
Sons, and Mildred After Mr.. Hanan's
death the second Mrs. Hanan married
Captain H. Marbury Taylor, and they
went to live in the old Hanan home at
270 Park Avenue.
Mrs. Lawes made her home with her
niece, Mrs. Taylor, as did Mildred
Hanan, until the Tas lors went to
France in March, 1920, where they have
been ever since
Mr.. Huntington is counsel repre-
senting Mrs. Taylor in litigation among
the benefciaries of the estate over the
division of the good will of the bust
ness.