Show It L a COMMITS SUICIDE TO ENRICH SISTER MARIE LEHMAN WAITS YEAR SO DEATH WILL NOT ANNUL INSURANCE IN-SURANCE POLICY SWALLOWS CARBOLIC ACID Was Thought to Have Deserted 1 Invalid In-valid for Whom She Cared for Years Lifeless Body Found In Park St Louis For a year Mario Ioh man 26 ears old counted the days which sho must pats before under tho terms of a life Insurance policy sha could kill herself and thus leave her ra helpless Invalid sister Maggie 19 years old 1000 A clause In the policy said that tho Insurance would not be paid If tho holder of tho policy committed suicldo r within ono year but that after that self destructlom would not be a bar to collecting the Insurance Tho year expired and Mnilo Lehman killed herself her-self next day by swallowing carbolic acidTlio The insurance policy naming her sister ns bencllclnry was found among her effects at tho rooming house on Pino street where she lived When the last thread was off the reel her mission was ended and she carried out the resolution which alta a alt-a mado fi Vlfir II1foro n When Maggie Lehman was seven years old scarlet fever made her a hopeless invalid who required constant con-stant attention night and day For the 12 years which have passed since then the burden of caring for the nllllcted girl had been upon the shoulders of her sister Their father a ranchman In Idaho was shot from ambush and killed five years ago and under the terms of his will each of the girls received 2000 This small fortune was rapidly dwindling dwin-dling away Mario spent not only her sisters share but her own for medical medi-cal and surgical treatment forMaggle Only a few hundred dollars remained when Marie hit upon the plan of insuring In-suring her life In her sisters favor and killing herself The fulfillment came when she went to Forest park and committed j 1 Wi 7 t Vrf i I 1vV j 11111 tr Killed Herself I by Swallowing Carbolic Car-bolic Acid suicide Her body was found on a bench at the junction of Grand and Jefferson drives Marie had frequently told Mrs Whlpple who keeps the rooming house that the burden of caring for her sister was almost too great for her to bear and hinted that If sho could leave Maggie well provided for she would go away Sos oral days ago she departed from tho rooming house nnd remained away three days When sho returned she said she had been In an auto ac cident Mrs Whipple now believes that she contemplated suicide at that time and wont away to wind up her per sonal affairs In preparation for tho carrylnc out nf her ninr After Marlos disappearance H A Germond of Seattle Wash whoso wife Is n sister of the Lehman girls forwarded to the St Louis police letter co a which Maggie the Invalid had written to Mrs Germond Tho aflllcted girl did not dream the sacrifice of which was about to bo mado for her She wrote had deserted her that Mario and that sue feared she would b ° taken hospital to tho city Pleaded Please send I have for been mo at too once she great burden for a Marie and she alone has left mo The pOlice were investigating manta made In this letter state lifeless body of when the Marie was found Mario Is described by Mrs as having been a Whlpnlo young noble woman ot character devoted care of her sister solely to the For tho last year Mrs says Marie has Whlrmio seemed Pgo reno of mini unusuallY 80 and she seldom Plained of the hardness com she of he Mot had done before liS the Insurance policy she took out Mario alone know why Was hers and that The secret through the earo Which bolo her up death was the text journey toward 1 hath no man than Greater love this 7 up his life tat his friend that he BV ° |