A NEW YORK SUICIDE.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 855, 29 August 1871, Page 3

A NEW YORK SUICIDE.

A French woman, named Marie Gerardin, committed . suicide, lately, in her room in a small alley leading off Broadway, New York, by taking laudanum. About six years ago, the deceased was employed in the capacity of a waiter girl, in what was then known as the "Thunderbolt" saloon, on Kearney-street, near Pacific. A farmer from Los Angeles saw her in this saloon, offered to marry her and give her a home in the lower country. She favoured his proposition, and in the course of a few weeks, managed to get from him the sum of lOOOdol., which was all the money he had. When his money was gone, she gave him the cold shoulder, and refused to marry him. One night the farmer visited her in the saloon, and told her he had come for a fiual answer on tho question or marriage. She flatly refused him, when he drew a Colt's five-shooter revolver and fired at her, the ball entering her forehead in front of and a little above the right ear. The man then turned the weapon to his own head, and before any one could prevent him fired it, the ball entering at the back of the right ear, penetrating the brain, and causing death in a few minutes. Tho woman did not die, but when she recovered her hearing was impaired. Ever since that occurrence she was known as " Deaf Mary." On several occasions she has attempted to take her own life.