New-York tribune., 1921-09-26
Expires in Mothers Arms
Without Giving Cause
of Wounding of Herself
and rs.Lawes's Suicide
BOrland With Her
Family at Bedside
Police Drop Inquiry and
Blame Double Killing
OH Liquor and Drugs

her mother at Long Island College
Hospital, Brooklyn, in the gray hours
of yesterday morning and will take
with her to her grave in Greenwood
Cemetery the secret of the fatal
quarrel which prompted Mrs. Grace
Lawes to shoot her and then kill her
sell.
The barrier of silence raised about
the case by the family and friends
OF the dead woman was unbroken by
her passing. Her mother, Mrs. Clara
M; Hanan, divorced wife of the late
millionaire shoe manufacturer, Alfred
+. Hanan, departed from the hospital,
where she had watched at the bed
side of the dying woman for more than
torty-eight hours, with her son, AL
fred P. Hanan, for his home in Allan
TIC e. Avenue, Sea Gate, Coney Island.
She would say nothing. There the
funeral of Mildred will be held on
Wednesday morning.
Police Drop Inquiry
The police and the District Attorney
OF Kings County seemed content last
night to let their investigation lie as
1t Is. NO further inquiry into the
causes for the murder and suicide
will be made, it was said. Even the
formallty of an autopsy on the BODY
OF Miss Hanan was dispensed. with, as
had been the case with Mrs. Lawes.
Dr. Carl Boettiger, Assistant Medical
Examiner of Kings County. and DR..
Ernest M. Vaughn, surgeon attached
to the staff of the District Attornev.
made superficial examination of the
body OF Miss Hanan and reported that
death mad been directly due to a bull
let which perforated the thorax and
Two bullets had entered Mis-.
Hanans body, the examination re- re-
vealed. One shattered the bones in
her left arm and the other. which
caused death, lodged beneath the
ninth rib.
Inc victim of the mad rage of a
woman who had been her protege and
TREND for years was unconscious two
hours before her ceath. which o.
Cured at 4 o'clock in the mornino
When physicians and nurses on watch
detected the inevitable turn for the
worse, Mrs. Hanan, asleep in an ad
joining room, was aroused. She at
once telephoned her son and John 8
Eorland, of 1872 East Fourth Street.
Manhattan, who was with Miss Hanan
When Mrs Lawes shot her in front of
schalk, at 35 Schermerhorn Street.
Brooklyn, at l O'Clock Friday morning
Patrolman at Death Bed
Alfred Hanan and Borland reached
the hospital barely in time. PATROL
man John Moriarity, of the Butler
Street station, who was present when
Miss Hanan died, is authority for the
announcement that she said nothing
o6I to Lo
made Saturday to Captain of Detec-
tives Sullivan, in which she refused
to say whether she knew why Mrs.
Lawes shot her. Moriarity was pres
ent at the deathbed, he said. because
MISS Hanan had been booked on the
pollce blotter as material witness.
The body of Miss Hanan will be
taken this morning from the undertak
ing rooms Of Fred Riker, 13O Seventh
Avenue, Brooklyn, to the cottage of
her brother at Sea Gate.
That the act of Mrs. Lawes was
prompted by mind crazed by liquor
and possibly by drugs Brooklyn Off
Gals now have no reason to doubt
Whatever the cause of the quarrel of
the two women may have been. Mrs.
Lawes undoubtedly saw slipping from
her the ease and atfluence which had
been hers since she had ingratiated
herself with Miss Hanan and become
almost member of the family. Or
dered to leave the Hanan summer home
at Shoreham, l.. l., either because she
owed her benefactor large sums of
money which she was unable or un-
willing to repay or because she had
made her presence obnoxious by over
Indulgence in alcohol, possibly both
Mrs. Lawes conceived the plan Of kill
ing the woman who had been her best
friend
Had Threatened Miss Hanan
In pursuance of this, she took room
at the Hotel Vanderbilt and used it
as a base for surveillance of her in
tended victim that lasted two weeks.
Everywhere Miss Hanan went, Mrs
Lawes followed her in a taxicab. Once
the two met face to face on the street
and Mrs. Lawes told Miss Hanan she
was going to kill her.
This state of affairs continued until
late Friday night, when Mrs Lawes,
who had shadowed Miss Hanan and
Borland from the Hanan apartment, at
Park Avenue, to the home of Miss
Gottschalk in Brooklyn, sprang from
behind ia bit of shrubbery in front of
the apartment building and fired the
shots which put an end to two lives.
Mrs. LaWes and her victim both were
Divorces. Mrs. Lawes at one time
was the wife Of one Ernest Schmitt, of
San Francisco. Miss Hanan married
DR.. Jerome Wagner, Manhattan
physician, when she was seventeen