Arizona republican., 1921-09-24
RUM CRAZED WOMAN
 SHOOTS GIRL CHUM' AND ENDS OWN LIFE
DAUGHTER OF WEALTHY SHOE MANU-
 FACTURER IS NEAR DEATH FROM
 3 BULLET WOUNDS; FAST PACE M W. Y. HIGH LIFE BLAMED FOR ACT
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NEW YORK, Sept. 23-Shot and wounded three times by her former chum, who then ended her life with a bullet, Miss Mildred E. Hanan. daughter of the late Alfred P. Hanan, shoe manufacturer. tonight hovered between life and death in a Brooklyn hospital With the outcome of the girls injuries still in doubt. police took up back trail from the scene of the nocturnal tragedy into the world or high life" blamed by Miss Hanans assailant. Mrs. Grace Lawes Tor the accumulated misery and heartache which fmpelled her to take her friends life.
 The pace is too fast and the lio- uor has driven me crazy" she had written in a letter addressed to her mother.
 Still another possible motive for the deed, that of jealous rage over the attentions of man who was with Miss Hanan when the shooting oc- cured, is being scrutinized by de- tectives who are trying to clear up many unexplained points
 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 VI Atn tllt lNO NOUItn-
 A further complication developed when San Francisco newspaper men reported they had located and ques- toned Mrs. M- E. Dittmar, to whom. calling her mother, dariing,v Mrs. Lawes had addressed a letter found among her effects.
 Mrs. Dittmar at first denied any relationship and then told her ques- tioners she was a sister of the dead woman and volunteered the informa- ton that jealousy was not the mo- tive of the killing. This information was at variance with the salutation of the mother. darling" letter and the contents of another. addressed to Miss Birdie Williams, a former nurse in the Hanan household. of which Mrs. Lawes had also been a member for four years.
 Make it easy for my darling mother.' Mrs. Lawes had written in the second letter. which began with request that her body be sent home to California to be cremated.
 The stories Of the tragedy and the events preceding 1t told by the in- Jured girl and Borland, a Dartmouth graduate, coineided closely With Miss Dorothy Gottschalk. Miss Hanan told detectives. she and Borland had dined at her own home in one of the most exclusive residential districts Of Manhattan.
 At II last night she said she and Borland drove Miss Gottschalk to her home in Schermerhorn street. Brook iyn. where they stayed until shortly after 1 o'clock.
 We had just emerged from the vestibule when I saw Mrs Lawes step from an areaway." Miss Hanan continued. "the next thing I heard three pistol shots I dropped to the sidewalk and when I got up I saw blood r$fnning from my arm
 T ran for a 100 feet and collapsed I then heard another shot fred
 It was this last shot that ended the life of Mrs. Lawes
 One other person witnessed the tragedy. A neighbor of Miss Cott- schalk said she was at the window and saw Mrs. Lawes sit down on a nearby stoop. take a cup from her handbag. dring something from it, and then dash the vessel to the gut ter Searchers later found fragments of the china and in the dead woman's bag a phiai labelled with the name of a drug
 Boriand, while admitting that he and Mrs. Lawes had quareIIed over Miss Hanan. emphatically denied that any feeling concerning himself had let to the shooting.
 He said the motive was positively not iealousyyP expressing the belief that she was temporarily deranged mentally.
 Mrs. Lawes was related to Miss Hanan- by marriage and lived with the Hanan family until two weeks ago when she moved 10 an apart ment at the Vanderbilt hotel She was divorced several years ago from her husband. Edgar E. Schmitt. and resumed her maiden name of Lawes.