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Show nou Telefrani Caoaea a Woman so Kill tlrraair. Mrs. I'hiiip Hardy, wife of a Ioodon business man, was Friday found in her apartments at l.-'o Wabash avenue, Chicago, with a bullet hole in her heart On the floor near her waa a magnificently chased dueling pistol, with which she had shot herself. Letters written by the dead woman ahowed that she had committed suicide I nndrr the belief that ber btuband bad committed suicide io new York, following fol-lowing a rei-ent uarre!. Mrs. Hardy had made careful preparations prepa-rations for her death, and even the letters she left to ber mother and others were written on mourning paper. pa-per. The telepratn which announced the auicitle was bogus. Hardy appeared at the root true to-lay and admitted to the police thai he had caused the telegram tele-gram to bo sent his wife, who he understood un-derstood had secured warrants fur the arrest of himself aud a woman. Hardv, i dreading court pna eedio(,-s, caused the messarre to be seut in the hoe that hia wife would take no further action in the matter. j |