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Show FOR LOVE OF A WOMAN Civil Engineer Takes Life Because She Would Not Marry Him. NEW TORK, Dec. I. Because a woman wo-man with whom he had lived at a Lex-lnjrton. Lex-lnjrton. avenue hotel for several weeks repeatedly refused his requests that a . ' marriage ceremony be performed, Ed-"Nward Ed-"Nward L. Gray, a civil engineer, ahot -hlmself and died instantly. The wo-, wo-, 'man, who gave her name as Lulu Adams, had Just fled from his presence when the fatal shot was fired. She has been detained by the Coroner and will be held until her story of the shooting has been investigated. She asserts that Gray was insanely Jealous of another man. and that he spent all last night looking for his rival . with the avowed Intention of killing ""him. He was unsuccessful In the search and returned to the hotel this morning. He tfien renewed his appeals ap-peals to the woman that she marry him and when she again refused, threatening threaten-ing to kill her and himself. She es- ! taped from the room Just in time to save her life, she says. Miss Adams told the Coroner that the reason she refused to marry Gray was that he did not have money enough to satisfy her wants. |