The New York herald., 1922-10-16
JEALOUSY OF BOAT
CAUSES HER SUICIDE
Note Says Husband Gave Love
and Her Pet Name to
Thing of IrOn.'
BODY FOUND IN VESSEL
Here Are Both Your Little
Pals Together Final Mes
sage States.

Mrs. Mary Mann, aged al, was eat
ing breakfast Saturday morning with
her husband, Harry A. Mann, in their
apartment at 235 West Twenty fourth
street, in the, cid Chelsea district, when
he complained that the eggs had been
boiled too hard. A quarrel followed,
and finally she put on her hat and
went out. She told him he never
would see her again.
Her body was found late yesterday
stretched in the bottom Of the motor
boat Little Pal, which belongs TO
Mann, at the Federal Motorboat Club,
142d street and Hudson River. A .32
caliber revolver lay beside her Three
chambers had been discharged, but
she had been shot only once, and that
through the right breast. She evil
dertly had shot herself at about noon.
DR.. Benjamin Schwartz Of the Medi-
cal Examiners office said the case be-
yond doubt was one of suicide.
Beside the body were three notes. all
to her husband. and for the most pars
written in rambling fashion. But the
police. who questioned Mann for several
hours before they let him go. could
make cut enough to know that the
trouble between Mann and his wife had
been growing for long time before the
quarrel at breakfast The notes indi-
Gated that she was jealous of the boat
Little Pal"
Was Her Pet Name.
Little Pal" the notes explained. was
the name that Mann used to call her.
When the boat was purchased he named
1t with this old term of endearment that
he had used in addressing her since be-
fore they we're married ten years ago.
But with the new name. according to
these notes, went a transfer of affec-
tions.
Il am giving you your freedom from
your old Little PAL Of flesh and blood.
she wrote. $50 that you can have your
new Little Pal of wood and iron. Since
you got the boat, books and poetry have
been my companions"
Another part of the note, which ap-
referred to the expenses OF re-
pairing and keeping the boat In condi-
tion. read "Alive / am worth $3.50.
dead. | am worth $1,000. So I'm going
70 be game and end 1t like the Little
Pal that I am. Here are both your
Little Pals together"
The saving and s.inting so that the
boat could be kept in condition also ap-
pears to have affected Mrs. Mann. But
the chief resentment was against the
boat itself.
Every night in your dreams" says
enc note, you will feel ny hand In
yours. My lips caress you. and I would
give all that life holds II 1t would bring
you back again, Little Pal Why did
you take from me all that it means, and
give your love and that name t. a I'iece
Of iron and wood that has neither heart
nor mind?"
II am sick and tired" says another
passage, "of scrubbing floors and work
Ing to help maintain the home for you.
I love you. Don't think you have any
loophole. for ! am dead game sport
to the end"
Mann Refuses Callers.
Then followed statement about
paid, and the request that the coffin and
her dress be all In white. The police
discussed the notes with Mann, and then
he went home. He would not answer
the bell in his apartment after he went
back to the Twenty-fourth street ad-
dress.
Mann, who said he was "A clerk In a
brokerage office, went to the West Thir-
Iieth street station early yesterday and
told Detective Max Leef OF the quarrel
over the egg. of his wifes disappearance.
and said he had become worried when
she failed to return Saturday night. He
said they had quarreled several times
before, and that he thought she was
Joking when she said she would not come
back. Detective Leef notified the Bu-
reau OF Missing Persons. Late in the
afternoon. however, Leef was called I'd
the telephone. Mann was calling.
Don't hunt for my wife any more"
he said. i've just found her. She laid
down In our boat and shot herself"
Leef told Mann not to move the body
and to stay at the club until detectives
from the West 1921 street station ar
rived.
CLUB members said that the boat Little
Pal caught fire last summer and was
damaged badly. II has been In dry dock
ever since, and the Manns. who had little
money. have been making many sacri-
fices so that they could repair the
damage.
Henry +. Sarowicf OF 14o Morninr-
side avenue. a friend of the Manns. told
he police that when he returned from
he ceremonies at the opening of the
Harlem Driveway last Thursday he met
Mrs. Mann. SarowlS, is n member OF
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