| Show DEATH i DID v r NOT r rHE VEIL Mystery Surrounding Mrs N NM NM M VI Smith Who Killed Husband and Herself New York Nov 25 The mystery which surrounds Mrs Nicholas M 31 Smith who on Saturday killed her husband hus husband husband band set fire to her home in New Ro Rochelle chelle and then committed suicide is no nearer solution as time passes In Ir fact it steadily increases For twenty years the th woman claimed that she was Grace Bulkeley a daughter of the late Lieutenant Governor William H Bulk Bulkeley Bulkeley eley of Connecticut and all her friends believed her story She even went so far as to tell them that she had been married to David Van who afterwards aft afterwards afterwards died The real Grace Bulkeley is alive as is her husband David Van Walter C Mrs Smiths first husband says he married her In 1891 and then she told him she was Grace Bulkeley Young and Beautiful She was the most beautiful girl I ever saw he said I dont think that she was more than 17 years of age and had hail lived in the city for some time After we were married and went to live in Eighth avenue near she told me the story of her life She said that she was the daughter of Lieutenant Lieu Lieutenant Lieutenant tenant Governor W V H Bulkeley of Hartford and that she had fallen in inlove Inlove inlove love with a New Kew York traveling man who induced her to run away with him They came to Nw York and wired her father that they were married The promptly disowned tier ier adopted a cousin from a large Bulkeley BUkeley family in Connecticut and proceeded to forget that she ever lived The cousin had the same name as herself In 1892 divorced his young wife and amI he promptly lost trace of oC her |
