Show MYSTERY IS DEEP AROUND WOMAN SUICIDE MURDERER NEW EW YORK Nov No 25 The The mystery which surrounds Mrs Nicholas M. M Smith who killed her husband Saturday Saturday Satur Satur- day ida set fire to her homo home in New Rochelle Ro Ro- Rochelle Rochelle chelle chelle and then committed suicide e is ill no nearer solution as ns time passes s In fact it steadily increases For twenty years carf the woman n claimed that she was as Grace a daughter of the late Gov William H. H Bulkley of Connecticut Con nt and all her friends believed Her story tory Sho She even went scent ent so far as to to tell them that she had been married to David Van Yan Shank who afterwards afterward died dierl The real Grace Grare is alive as 33 is isher isher is isher her husband husban David Va Van Shank Walter Valter C. C Mrs Smiths Smith's first husband says sas he married her in 1801 1891 and then she told him she was Grace U She She was was the the most beautiful girl irl I ever saw he lie said I dont don't think that she was more than 17 ir years of a age e and had been in the city for some time After we ice were married marrie-d and went to live in Eighth avenue near Dear Fifty Fifty- seventh sc street she told me the story of her life She said that she was the daughter of Gov Go GoVa W Va H. H Bulkley of lof Hartford and that she had fallen i ilove in inlove inlove love with a New Ne York traveling trL man who induced her to run away with him They came to New York and ana wired her father that the they married The promptly disowned her adopted a it cousin from a lar large e famil family in Connecticut and proceeded to forget forge that she ahe ever er lived The cousin had the same ame name Dame as herself In divorced this wife and land ho boo promptly lost trace of her |