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Show TRAGEDY WALKS 1 WITH ROMANCE Seven Persons in Hospitals Six Bodies in Morgue, Gotham's Record NEW YORK, May 9. Romance and tragedy, walking hand and hand through the nu-ti-opoiitan ares Monday left In their wake the longest list 01 violence and suicide tho city has known in muny months Beveri persons In hospitals six bodies bod-ies In morgues and the story in near- ly every case onf of unrequited love. Dr. Alfred H.Rledol eve spoclnli't eparated from his wife, was said to I hnve on(- oon infatuated with ! Broadway chorus girl. He- poisoned i himself for her love, dying with an I improvised siotllght glaring on his face, I One of his patients found his bodv. " ro,j with a black bathrobe as a pall, end with nn electric rending lamp turned full on the puiiid countenam Kil l s 8WEETHJ Ml l John C Kane, Jr.. .14. post office Clerkj led his school teacher sweet- iu rt, Elisabeth Dunn. 32. into Alton Wood park at Marnoroneck. to prest, his suit for her hand. The bodlet were found side l-y .side, h-r had a bullet through the heart and hla with a bullet through the brain. She still dutched bouquet of sprinr flowers they hud gatherci. Relatives and acquaintances ac-quaintances said Miss Dunn had refused re-fused Kane's pleas for marriage time jand time- again, because he drank although she admitted he loved him. Vincent Raclardl, 18. painter in a doll factory, culled Murgaret Violentl. 17. Into a hallway Of the factory an.l begged her to elope with him When she told him she did not love him. h whipped out a pistol and fired five shots. ( ne pierced he;- chin. He then turned the weapon on himself, but again his aim was bad and he suffered onlv a flesh wound In the cheek. Mis Stanshefsky. 80. was haled Into Yorkviiie magistrate's court on i charge of annoying Margaret Smith, u fellow factory worker, by persistently asking her to marry him Just before the case was called. Stnnshef.ky flew at the young woman, seized her by the throat and bit her cheek. lb was sent to Bellevue hospital hos-pital for observation as to his sanity M SI I RH US I'l VI il Two other attempts at suicide one successful In which the love motive was not apparent, wee reported Mystery surround.-, the death of Vincent Vin-cent Morelli, 'JC who died in a policeman's police-man's arms after he hud been wounded wound-ed in a pistol duel with two or three other men. He Is said to have been InVolved in several recent bootlegger fights. In Ilarlcm, Hugh I'himbers. negro, shot and seriously wounded Douis A. I.avelle. nouru attorney, fled, wound ing Patrolman Pohndorf. who pursued him, i it 1 f mi i v wa s apt u red J The body of Robert Gay. cashier of ;the Newton. N. J.. gas company, who disappeared a month ago. was found and identified. Relatives said he had been shell-shookej in France, and al -tribuled his death to a mental upset brought on by the death of his mother BPBCTATORS WOUNDED Home-going crowds in Grand street In the lower East Side were thrown Into a panic when three men and two women fell wounded after five men Mi.ldenh drew pistols and began shooting at one another The giinim-n began their battle within a block of police headquarters, All the gunmen except one escaped. Tiic police said that the shooting af-ifray af-ifray grew out of a murder eight months ago when a street duel resulted result-ed In the death of the leader of a band of bootleggers The wounded are said to have good chances for coverv- |