Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-07
WOMAN ENDS LIFE
BY |NHAL|NG GAS
Another Is Treated for Poison
Dose and One for Bull
let Wound.

One woman is dead here today from
inhaling gas under circumstances that
indicate. according to the police. that
she committed suicide; another is in
Emergency Hospital in a critical con-
dition from taking two doses of
poison reputedly after quarrel
with her husband. and third. also
at Emergency. is being treated
for a bullet wound in the left breast
which she contends was inflicted &C
cidentaHy. but which police list on
their Official report as IAN attempted
suicide Her condition is not serious.
The dead woman Is Miss Catherine
Berry. said by Beighbors to be 50
years old. who was found shortly he
fore noon in an unusued room in the
conducted at 144; Rhode Island ave
nue.. The gas jets were found turned
on. Mrs. Alice Burrows. ~. Of 1924
Wisconsin avenue, Is the poison vic
tim. and Mrs. Jacqueline Frey, %.
Of 1921 New Hampshire avenue, was
shot
The body of Miss Berry. who is
believed by police to have committed
suicide some time last night. was
found by her maid. Mary Cross. col
ored, when she smelled the odOr ot
escaping gas. Miss Berry was fully
dressed.
Miss Berry In IIl.Heaith.
who had lived here 20 years, had beer
In ill-health for three years and only
recently had been discharged from a
"a nitarium. She is survived by sis
ter. Miss Elsie d. Berry of Athens
Aia.. and a brother. Robert T. Rerr!
of Philadelphia.
DIR. F.. A. Trudeau of Emergenc.
Hospital pronounced Miss Berry dead
Coroner J. Ramsay hewitt will view
the body later today. Officers w. r
Hopkins and Sergt. F.. l.. Gibbons OF
the second precinct conducted an in
vestigation.
Having refused hospital treatment
after taking one dose of poison tablets
last night, Mrs. Burrows took a sec
ond dose and then was rushed tc
Emergency Hospital.
The police report stated that Mrs
Burrows had made a first attempt al
| suicide following a dispute with hel
husba and, but that when DR.. JOSEPH
Larkin responded with the ambula nee
from Emergency Hospital, she posi-
lively refused to go to the hOspita
after having received prelimina r.
treatment from the physician.
Later Sergt. f.. s. Allen and Pri
waite !. F.. Burke of the seventh pre-
cinct were summoned to the residence
and learned that she had taken 2
second dose. John Burrows. the hus
ba nd, started out in his machine with
her and the policemen for Emergenc,
Hospital but the car Skidded round
ing the corner at Twenty. sixth anC
4 streets. smashing rear wheel
Mrs. Burrows was then taken to the
hospital in a taxicab.
Physicians today expressed the
opinion that she would recover.
Accident, Says Mrs. Frey.
Mrs. Frey was taken to Emergenc,
last night from the apartment of Mr(
Louise Conrad, at 1892 l street, where
the shooting took place. Detective
Sergt. Joseph Waldron. who investi
gated the case. says Mrs. Frey tolC
him she was preparing to send the
pistol to her brother and that she
accidentally touched the trigger. Mrs
Conrad and five men who were in the
apartment all were taken to head
quarters for questioning and later
released.
Mrs. Frey had been living at the
New Hampshire avenue address fol
month. She came to Washington
from Baltimore, police learned.