Show Woman Drinks Wine and nd Writes Notes As She Awaits waits Death From Gas Fumes NEW YORK Jan 13 I Mrs Margaret Grossman gave herself a 3 champagne party to celebrate celebrate cele cele- brate joining her husband In death She sipped ch champagne and wrote notes to her husband as she inhaled gas in an Jn apartment which she had ren rented ed for the pur pur- pose She and her husband had planned to go together eight months ago but Mrs Grossman was rescued and revived The gas ins kill killed d her husband then Mrs Grossman tried suicide again last week when she was living at the Hotel St 51 George in Brooklyn She tried to jump out of ot the window but a woman friend pulled her back She ma made e careful preparations so Fridays Friday's attempt would succeed suc suc- She stuffed cotton around windows and doors and covered the stuffing tuffing with adhesive tape Then sitting at a table sh she began began be gan drinking champagne while gas poured into the small room from the kitchenette She noted the time of each paragraph in her letter and it indicated that she wrote intermit intermittently for about 40 minutes before lying on the floor and covering herself with a coat The letter was not addressed to I anyone but it was written in in the form of a conversation with her husband She exhausted the contents of a bottle of champagne while waiting wait wait- ing for the gas to act and then began drinking whisky The time mark marked d on the letter indicated she lay down to die Continued on Pate Pue Two WOMAN WRITES AS DEATH DEA NEARS I- I Drinks Champagne Chamagne as al She Awaits Effect of Gas Fumes Continued from Pete Pare One about 15 minutes before the elevator ele dc- dc vator operator of the building smelled gas investigated and found her body The coat with which Mrs Grossman covered herself was practically the only garment she had left leU except the clothes she wore She gave everything every every- thing else elu away to friends friendS' yesterday Extracts from the letter Mrs Grossman Grossman Gross Gross- man wrote as she was waiting wasting V to die Coli follow ow My clock says a. a m m. I turned turned on the gas gns five minutes ago So far I feel only a tremendous pounding poundIng pound pound- Ing of my heart which undoubtedly is due to fear of being revived once m more r The gas s odor is a objectionable but not as as bad as I thought Morton tell name ineligible to pay more attention at to the work of ot his PhD charges than to tennis and handball Well tell him I had half halt a bottle of wine half hall a bottle of champagne and now I am arn having a good bonded whisky but still I want to follow tollow Ed Ed- gar I did not write my ray brother how I would leave So you must write him that Use simple sentences in English old dear How awful ul it seems ems to o have to wait walt for unconsciousness I do hope this will be final and also alo hope lope that no one else will suffer My Eddie 15 minutes minuteS' have passed and I feel still quite capable of walkIng walking walk walk- ing about about 25 25 minutes Morton minutes Morton do you still stilt remember how we made you feel eel disgusted by listening to stupid jokes Morton I have never really loved any other man but Edgar so you must st know that these last eight months have nave been hell Thirty five minutes Am singing to Beethoven's illegible of all things Morton we had original oil paintings V at home me Fifty minutes must must have seven lives Besides the death letter Mrs Grossman Grossman Grossman Gross Gross- man left a note for the police to notify notify no no- lity Mrs M. M N N. Walker of ot Leesburg Fla and Morton Schweitzer of the department of zoology of Columbia university Schweitzer she wrote had the key to h her r safe deposit box which contained an insurance policy |