New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-07
Mrs. Rankil1e
Seen Day After
She allisl1ed
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curry about pawnshops is perfectly I'M
derstandable."
81 went to see her Easter Monday
at the rooms of the Association for
Improving the Condition of the Poor"
said Mrs. Hale, before "makinc up"
last night. "She worked there every day.
That was but one side of her charity.
We rode uptown together and stopped
at her doctors office, near Fourth
Street and Madison Avenue
There was an air Of hnality about
her that day: she had reached con-
clusion. For years her religion had
been slipping away from her. The
old Christian beliefs were gone She
no longer felt any obligation to live
out her life against her own desire.
"'Why don't they come to mc? she
asked. referring to her dead loved ones,
Ter mother and her husband. al need
them to comfort me through this
trouble. If they continued to live after
death they would be here with me-
Disbelieved in Hereafter
"Mrs. Eankine had ceased to believe
in life beyond the grave" said Mrs.
Hale. III think she had clearly decided
that her life was her own to take or
not as she chose. She felt that her
dead relatives would have comforted
icI IL tueit SpllitS survived. on see.
she had grown very sensitive in her
illness.
II was one of the very few friends
who kept in close touch with her after
she became i'll. | might say was the
only one of her old friends We had
known each other for twenty wears.
meeting In Massachusetts at summer
resort, where she had gone with her
parents and her brother Vernon.
IVY hen Annette left the car that Eas-
ter Monday i was sure she had de-
termlned to end her life Clouting.
her chauffeur, drove me home, and |
spoke to him about it. | said: She
was SO final that I am sure she has
reached a terrible decision.' He said
they watched her as closely as posi-
BILE. She was not unbalanced Her
mind was as clear as ever. l hope that
will be made clear. She had reached
this decision coldly, deliberately. I
hope they will continue to drag the
river, for / am sure that is where
Annette went. They must find her
poor body"
Sensitive About Illness
The constituencies in her illness about
which Mrs. Hale, spoke was very acute.
Seven years ago Mrs. Rankine had a
physical ailments, and as conse-
quence of'these. violent seizures. These
came on her without warning, so that
she was constantly fearful of an attack
IN public. TO woman Of Mrs. Rank
ines refinement this was torture. She
withdrew herself from contact with
most of her former friends Mrs Hale
was one of the few who continued to
keep in intimate touch with her
Mrs. Rankines one other contidcnte
was Miss Laura SPHINX, a nurse who
lived With her as a companion The
widow had spoken Of suicide as a cure
Tor her trouble in conversations with
Miss Sphinx
When they found woman's lnourn
ing veil caught on a ffuke of their
graphing iron yesterday morning Pat
Kick Duffy and James Power, of the
marine division Of the Police Depart
ment, thought they found portion of
the missing womans costume. They
were dragging the East River where
The tide swirls past the docks and
moored barges at the foot of Sixty
first and Sixty second streets. Mr.. Nor
ton, however, declared he had never
seen his sister wear a veil, and the
chauffeur was positive she wore none
en- the Jlay she diSanpea red