The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1922-07-28
PHONES
F|ANCEE, DIES OF
DRUGS IN STATION
DR.. Robert Francis LaWleSS
Committed Suicide,
Is Belief.

Dependency over the persistent re.
fusal OF his fancee. Miss Betty Du
! CharnnA- ts marry him Is believed TO
| have caused DR.. Robert Francis Law
less - Ses:-!sst suicide In Grand Cen.
tral Terminal about midnight. Miss
Du CharmH admitted to q reporter for
The Evening World, when seen in her
apartment No. "a West 6Sth Street,
to-day, that she was engaged to Or.
Lawless, but refused to marry him un.
til he ceased drinking.
DR.. Lawless. head physician at DR..
L. II. Barnes's sanltarium in Stam-
ford, Conn, took about twelve ounces
Of d drug called ''somnos, made
largely Of chloral, according to AS
sistant Medical Examiner Holman.
Two letters found in the dead mans S
pockets. furnished the clues which re.
suited in Miss Du Charme's expIana.
ton. One was a letter written by her
to the doctor about three weeks ago,
the other was his unsealed and un.
mailed anSwer 10 her.
"I have known DR.. Lawless about
three years" Miss Du Charme said
to-day. I'VE met socially and later
became engaged. The doctor was
anxious to be married and so was T.
but / refused until he was able to
stop drinking. About three weeks ago
| wrote him a severe letter about II.
Although | have not seen the other
letter found in his pocket | am sure
it must have been his answer to me,
because | had never received an an
swer to II.
"Night before last he was in Ber-
lin, Conn, testifying as an expert in
a case, and came back about o'clock
Yesterday morning. He Immediately
came to see me, and stayed until II
o'clock When he left he said he was
going back to Stamford, and | should
call him there in the evering. did
so, hut was told he had not returned
Miss Du Charme's attorney, Sidney
r. Lash Of No. 80 Broad Street, wa
present while she told her story.
When he arrived he asked for Miss
Bennett" and referred TO Miss Du
Charme AS Miss Bennett frequently
during the interview. Miss IN
Charmc is about forty years old six
feet three inches tall, Of heavy BULL,
and has bobbed hair. She was reti-
cent as to her business, but admitted
she was a manufacturer OF chocolates.
John n. Gray, a Grand Central por-
ter, said he had noticed Or. LaWless
in the station for about two hours
He walked around nervously for a
time. smoked a while and went in and
out Of the waiting room. The porter
finally saw him take a drink from Il
bottle and warned him that persons
were not allowed to drink in tho sta
ton.
"Never mind me-" replied the doc
tor Shortly afterward he fell. PO-
liccman Murphy called an ambulance
from Flower Hospital. but the
surgeon pronounced DR.. Lawloss dead.
Investigation showed that he had
bought the three bottles at different
times yesterday in a drug store near
the station, 4 teaspoonful Of the
drug is a dose. There was no way 10
tell whether he drank them at DIFF
ferent times or all at once
It was said at DR.. Barncs's SAM
tarlum, in Stamford, that Dr. LaWIess
had come to New York on Wednesday
to spend his time off, and was due
back last night. Nothing was known
there of his friendship for Miss Du
Charne, or where he had spent his
time in New York.