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Show FINDS DAUGHTER DEAD; KILLS SELF Chicago, July 15. A middle aged woman, wearing a shawl over her shoulders, presented herself at the of flees of the Western Casket and Cn dertaklng company. 90 East Randolph street, nt 6 o'clock last evening. "Mv name is Mary Schultz," she said. "1 live at 37 South Halstd street My daughter has been awav from home for a week. She worked In a prlnfinp shop on Randolph street The police can t find her They told me to come down here to look at the body of a girl they had found in the lake I know It Isn't Mabel I know-before know-before I look that she can't be my daughter but the policemen want me to look and see " Views Body of Young Girl. In the morjrue of the establishment lay the body of a young girl It had been recovered yesterday morning in the basin of the Columbia Yacht cluh on the lake front at the foot of Ran dolph street. There were no mark. of violence on the body and the police laid the girl's death to accident or suicide. Mrs Srhultz was taken to rhf room where the body lay. First sV was shown some damp clothing, cov-ored cov-ored with sand Sh picked up a black sklrth from the pile and hor fingers slowly sought a mpndd spot on the waist band and paused Iherc After a bit she went through the rest of the clothing, but she did it me-chanlcally me-chanlcally Flnallv she looked nt the body Attendants who watched her said that she did not weep She seemed like one stunned or dazed. JuBt before be-fore she left she seemed to feel that some explanation w-as due those who had brought her there "I was mia taken," she said dully "It was Mabel after all " Leaves Morgue In Daze. "She'll begin to realize it when she gets home." said one of the attend ants as he watched the little woman with the shawl walk slowly out of Xi door as thouKh she was walking In her 6leep That was at 6 o'clock At 8 o'clock a policeman puffed la borlously up the two fllght3 of wooden wood-en stairs at 37 South Hnlsted 6treer He knocked at the door, hut received no answer He heard the sound of moans from the Inside Calling a neighbor he pressed his shoulder ngalnst the door and pushed It In-v.ard In-v.ard Mrs Schultz was found on the floor of the front room Near her was a bottle containing carbolic acid. Tin-woman Tin-woman .wan conBcious, but was unable un-able to speak on account of the burns in her mouth and throat She was rushed to the county hospital w here she died Subpoena Arrives Too Late The policeman took a folded paper from the sweatband of his helmet. It was the notice that he had been sent to 6erve on the mother to have her appear at the coroner's Inquest over the remains of her daughter today On the back of the notice the policeman police-man took notes for hlB report on the mothers suicide. |