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Show Ilushnd Disappears : while S!:c Is In. Capital, a:d Tfccrc Is a Lljstcry. , NEW YORK, April 23. After suffering terrible agony for more than flvo days, Mrs. L. B. Moorehead, a mysterious young' woman of. great beauty, la dead la a Brooklyn hospital. . ' Although It was known that the young woman had taken poison, presumably with suicidal Intent, no report was made of the case to the police until a late hour last night In the meantime the husband, who had watched at the bedside of his wife since she was taken to the hospital,, had disappeared and 11 trace of him has been lost. ! According to Information gathered by the Coroner, Mrs. Moorehead took ' poison last Friday while in a fit of pique followjng a quarrel with her husband Y at the Hotel St. George. lie Jmmedlately gave the alarm. A physician who was y called saw that there was little chance for the woman's recovery, and he ordered ( that she be taken to the hospital. Moorehead kept repeating to the physician that he must save the woman, as if she died he was ruined. ' . - . In the hotel it was understood at first that the husband had said his wife had attempted suicide after a little quarrel with him, but later he changed his story, saying that she had taken poison by mistake. |