TELEPHONE TRAGEDY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2186, 9 May 1908, Page 4

TELEPHONE TRAGEDY.

A clerk in a chemist's shop, named Brundige, while talking over, tffo wires to a Brooklyn telephone girl, heard a pistol shot. She had killed herself. The circumstances (says the New York correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph”) are so unusual that the story is worth relating in the young man’s own words. “I was sitting in the drug store as usual,” he says, “when the telephone bell rang, and a girl’s voice, which I knew, asked for Mr (Smith. I said Mr Smith and his wife had gono ont. ‘Well,’ exclaimed the girl, ‘this is Helen tDaenzer. Just you tell tMr Smith to go to drug store’—mentioning an address some three miles away —‘and several people may thank you for identifying my body. I’ll ibe a corpse in 2min.’ “I had” just exclaimed,” continued Brundigo, “for God’s sake, woman, don’t do anything so idiotic,’ when, still holding the receiver to ray ear, I was half stunned by the report of a revolver shot. I cried out, 'Aro you there, Miss Daenzer? Arc you shot?’ There was no answer, I flew to the other drug store, and found the police carrying a dead body out of tlie door.”

A girl had, a few minutes before, hurriedly entered the shop, rushed into the telephone booth, and, with a letter outstretched before her, had conducted the brief conversation with Brundige. She had concealed a pistol in her bosom, and, apparently, while holding the receiver to one car, discharged the contents of the firearm through the other. She was instantly killed. The letter she had written was addressed to her mother. It was pathetic and brief:—“l have been sick so often. I am going to rest. . My second grief is too much for me.” The parents say they are unaware of any \lovo affair.