The Washington times., 1921-09-24
WITH
JEALOUSY,
FOLLOWED
GIRL FOE
Investigators in Shooting Of
Miss Hanan by Mrs. Lawes
Unfold Weird Tale.
BY International News Service.

BY international News Service.
NEW YORK, Sept. 24.--Mrs.,
Grace Lawes, beautiful San Fran,
cisco divorcee. shot down her former
chum, Miss Mildred Hanan, daugh-.
ter and heiress Of the late Alfred P.
Hanan, millionaire shoe manufac-
turer, only after she had abandoned
a plan to mar her victims beauty,
according to evidence uneartbed by
investigators today: o. ..
Plotted Last Spring. .
As early as last spring, it was learn 4
ed. Mrs. Lawes, while drinking, had
expressed to a friend her resolve to
disfigure the features Of the heiress.
She wanted to make sure, gshe said,
that Miss Hanan would no longer "be
attractive to men,"
Miss Hanan's condition was report
ed today as highly critical. Physicians
who are in attendance on her at the
Long Island hospital said II would be
a miracle II she lives through the day.
Investigators learned that about ten
days after Mrs. Lawes had been heard
to threaten to disfigure Miss Hanan
she appeared suddenly at Shoreham,
L. l., on her way to the country home
Of the Hanans. At the station she
with only the chauffeur in It. She
learned from the station agent that
Miss Hanan had taken train for
Seagate, her brothers home.
Created Scene.
Mrs. Lawes then went to Seagate,
where she learned Miss Hanan was
at the Atlantic Yacht Club. She then |
went there and tried to gain admis- |
sion. 1t is reported she created o scene |
when she was not permitted to enter, |
not having credentials.
Soon after that, investigators have !
learned, she trailed Miss Hanan on |
several occasions. She was never |
able to meet her. Investigators be. |
heve she finally decided to abandon |
the plan to disfisure Miss Hanans |
end her own life.
has developed, had their first open |
break last Decoration Day. 1t was
so pronounced, 1t was said, that the |
heiress asked the divorcee to leave
her home.
John 8. Borland, the exporter who |
was with Miss Hanan when she was
shot down, could throw no further
light upon the case today. He re-
iterated his denial that Mrs. Lawes
could have been jealous over his
attentions to Miss Hanan.
Bullet Is Removed.
pr. Abraham Mandel Birg, one of |
the physicians IN attendance on Miss
said that while not certain,
It was feared peritonitis had set in. |
One of the bullets that lodged in
Miss Hanan's chest was removed |
Yesterday. but one th>t lodged in
her liver had not been touched.
The body of Mrs. Lawes was still |
held In a Brooklyn morgue. An au-
DR.. Robert F. Barker another of
Miss Hanan's attending surgeons,
declared at noon today that Miss
hansn n was very much improved"
he denied that peritonitis had set in.
Seek for Drugs.
Miss Hanan's mother. her brother.
Alfred p. Hanan End, her grand.
father. William Moulds; and Bor.
iand. unwilling cause OF the
tragedy, who was with Miss Hanan
when she was shot, spent the night
at the hospital awaiting the results
OF the operation. The mother was
reported to be In q state OF collapse,
Detectives investigating the shoot.
Ing declare that even though Jealousy
appears to have been the underlying
motive, there appears to be a real
to be solved.
The police are particularly anxious
to know where Mrs. Lawes got her
supplies OF drugs and liquor. Half
4 dozen men from the narcotic squad
were out eafly today on a search
Tor the coke" peddlers who pray on
women OF wealth and fashion.
Tells Of Introduction.
Miss Dorothy Gottschalk, in front
ot whose home, at IS Cchermerhorn
street, Brooklyn, Miss Hanan was
shot, was greatly upset over the
tragedy. She believes II must have
been the plan of a mind crazed by
jealousy. Miss Gottschalk said:
'It was l who introduced Grace
Laws to Jack Boriand, and she In
(Contiuued on Pare 2. Cof,,rrn Al ',