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Show Hi4?r BROKEN, NEEDY WOMAN ENDS HER LIFE Attempt to Kill Her Baby Girl, Alio, but Doe$ . Not Succeed. New York. Trying to kill both herself her-self and ber beautiful six-year-old Ctrl, Mrs. Anna Mae Rleger but half succeeded. 8ht, beart-broken and disappointed, dis-appointed, died; the child, thanks to the wit of a policeman. Uvea, The woman, a nurse,1 thirty-six, left behind a letter of farewell to the husband hus-band from whom she waa estranged, a human document, telling a tale of unhappy disillusionment, temptation and bittern?, Mrs. Rieger lived with the child. Roselle, In a well-furnished apartment on One Hundred and Twenty-fourth street. Neighbors swelled gas and called the police. Patrolman William Smith found the woman dead In bed. The little daughter's head lay on ber breast. Gas was pouring from the burners of the kitchen range. Fresh Air Applied. Smith picked up the child, carried It to an open window and administered adminis-tered first aid. When Doctor Lyon arrived from Knickerbocker hospital be said the little girl showed faint signs of life and used a pulmotor. Then he took Roselle to the hospital, where It Is suld she will live. "The police found a pawn ticket for a ring, letters to relatives and a court order directing Rleger to pay ufaj If Found tS Woman In Bed. his wife $10 t week for the support sup-port of his child There was a French pistol, unloaded, and the letter to the htiNhiiml It whs addressed to "Mon Thomas" (My Thomas) and read In part : "I have lost everything In this life but r ' self-respect and honor. Tom, this Is no chorus-girl trick. I'm sorry I grieved you. It Is better to take this buby with me. A little girl with no mother and a blackguurd father Is a pitiful object in this brutal, world." There was a direction that the landlady, land-lady, Mrs. Causer, should keep Mrs. Rleger's belongings until her sister called for them, and the letter went on: "As for the and his accomplice, they hud better leave off tricking women when they know they are fighting as a tiger fights for its cubs Just to stay together with a roof over-bead. over-bead. Another Crime. "Tell them to find fairer game next time. Tell them to find women with no children and no heart Tell the he has another crime to his credit. He can add murder. lie has murdered mur-dered me. I am nothing but the 's puppet." There was a bresk in the letter here. It wus apparently hastily scrawled in Ink. It continued: "I am getting tired now. I have been up all night crying. I must wash my hair and put my house In order. Good-by, Tom, and good luck to you. "Worth Is the 's number, Invite him to the funeral and ask him to send roses. 1 love roses. Send my body to Glens Kalis. Please bury me in the French cemetery. I'lense see that Roselle's body is placed In tbe cotlln with mine. "See that baby and I will not be parted. "1 died as I lived alone and deserted. de-serted. "Please send my wrist watch to my mother for my sister, Ella." |