The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-16
Love FOR POE I
LEADS GIRL 10,
To SUICIDE
Leaves Note Saying She Plans
to Drown Self Whe, Man
Turns Cold.

BrNGHAMToN, N. II March
ie.-Unable to win back the e
fections or her poetic sweetheart,
FAy Norton, eighteen, . Bingham
ton shop girl, today ID believed g
have drowned herself in the Sus.
ul1ehanlla.
IRVING woodruff held her affec.
tons for more than q year, mostly
through ability 10 express himself
in more or less fred verse. say the
girls friends.
sAfter vain attempts to regain
Woodruff,s love, Miss Norton 4
said to have taken her trouble 70
q fortune teller.
she was told to spend ten min
utes nightly in bed concentrating
On her wish for the return OF her
absent sweetheart, she TOLD friends,
but this failed.
In q note to . friend the sir
wrote:
Farewell Note.
Goodbye. The river ID high
now. There isn't anything else
for me since Woodle lett me.
Friends OF the girl have q little
pile Of manuscripts, poems WOOD
ruff wrote to Miss Norton during
their year Of romance. With these
and iYltimacies the girl c0nfided 70
thcm. they have pieced together q
romantic and tragic tale.
The fervor and fire Of the young
poets devotion when he and Miss
Morton were beginning tn eiT
romance, and the dying Of the am
hers of love 90 the two began. ia
drift apart, are revealed Ii twc
poems.
The first, when their lives were
bound up IN each other runs:
The purple dusk,
Sitting down across the valley
or the Susquefanna
Compared with your face,
The golden moon
IL beauty tFanscendent:
But II lid s0nher blank
Rising fiery over
The Security Mutual hulk
IL blazing furnace,
But II 10 black enbeH
Compared with my love.
Sentiments Change.
The second poem written ap.
parentIy near the end OF the love
affair, runs:
IL we must part,
Then LET 1t be thus
Not heart On heart.
But all without fuss.
lust touch my hand and say,
See you again some time,
some day.
II we must part.
The little shop girl could not
break off 20 easily as that. She
told her friends woodruff had
grown cold and had begun 10 call
often on another. an artist.
Miss Norton called at the for.
tune tellsrsseaeffice Saturday. he
told her her poet would return Il
each night she would spend ten
minutes in bed concentrating" on
the wish. She followed his advice,
she told her. friends. but the poet
continued IN the company Of the
artist and ignored her one pathetic
note.
Told All On Card.
Then she lost confidence in her
last chance, the fortune teller. The
card he had asked her to Till O1i
says:
Write clear and plain, using
names in full, the most important
question you desire to know.
"A space IL left at the bottom
Tor the signature Of the applicant
Miss Norton had written:
Will Irving Woodruff come
back to me? IL he engaged 10
Yyette Collins? Why did he 80
away from me? Is she In love
with him as much az am?
How can I regain his love Tor
me?
Girl Poor. Poet Wellto.DO.
In corner Miss Norton had
written:
The return Of my sweetheart.
His success AZ q poet.
Miss Norton was in financial
straits and lived In a furnished
room. She worked in a cigar FAC
tory. The poet 10 well-to-do.
Since Miss Norton disappeared
no trace Of her has been found
Her friends fear she has carried Out
her threat to take her life.
The Norton girl 10 not the only
Bingharnton damsel who has aired
her troubles to the same fortune
teller.
Each one OF his pretty "clients'
has separated herself from a dol
las az remuneration to the spirits. q
say the police.
HAS SMOKED 70 YEARS;