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TIRED OF LIFE; TAKES POISON WIFE OF MINING PROMOTER KILLS HERSELF Leaves a Note Bidding Her Husband and Little Son Farewell— Well C,.^,. .Known In Santa Monica Society THE DEAD Mrs. A. L. Harris; fired bullet;; through;. her,, heart; body found" near Eastlake park. \ ', Mrs. O. B. Steen; killed herself jj In Catallna hotel by taking mor. ','. phlne. ;; jMr«. O. B. Steen, wife of a, well known mining man of the southwest, nnd.for some time a leader In society at Santa Monica, where she lived at the Arcadia, committed suicide yester day morning by tnklng morphine. For .several months Mrs. Steen has been living at the Catallna hotel on South Broadway. Thursday night Mrs. Steen had left word that she wn.fi not to be disturbed by visitors during the mornjng, but about 10 o'clock Mrs. Berger, the land lady, became alarmed because she re ceived no response when Bhe knocked on'> Mrs. Steen's door, and finally en tered'the room through another door, the front entrance being locked. She found Mrs. Steen lying on the bed unconscious. Help was called but the woman could not be roused, so Dr. Bayless and Assistant Police Surgeon FTeedman were called and worked over the unconscious woman for two hours, Lut.;to : no avail, Mrs. Steen dying at about 'noon. • It' Is said financial affairs have been causlrig^Mrs. Steen worry. At the present time Steen can not be -located, but he, was supposed to be ' in : San Francisco at the Palace hotel, where he has stayed at various times for a -number of years and where he ■ in'- well known. His ten year old son. fcyram, wrote to his father at this ad dress, however, about ten days ago and the, letter .was returned, and marked by the clerk to the effect that Steen had not been at the hotel in some time. He Is a mining promoter, and has been successful. -.The only message left by Mrs. Steen was scrawled on the back of a photo graph: , ''Goodby to all those I love. I am just tired and feel that this old world will just keep on. without me just the same. Goodby to my two darling sweethearts, my Oliver and my pre cious boy, Byram. God forgive me." '.Little .By ram Steen has been in the Yale rschoor.for r about a- year and a half. ■ The principal; refused' to give out -any information regarding the lad or his parents. .",Mrs.;Steen's relatives live in Joplin, Mo. An inquest will be held at 9 o'clock this morning. ROBBED AND BEATEN BY NEWFOUND FRIENDS Electrician From Fresno "Becomes Acquainted" Through Many Drinks and Loses Wealth ".To the man who mourns the fact that he has few friends the little tale which Claude B. Smith*' a Western Union lineman" from Fresno, related to the police is of especial significance. Smith came to Los Angeles Thurs day; and according to his own state ment he was simply "overburdened with "money." He was also afflicted with loneliness, for he knew not a soul In town. . " ■■'.'■ -• ~ :': It didn't take the. man from the raisin city long to get acquainted. In one of the down town saloons he met a pair of agreeable strangers, who were not averse to having a drink wlththe newcomer. | One drink led to another and it was not long before Smith and his new found friends felt as though they were old college ■ chums "who had met after a. long separation, . The only trouble with the "whole affair was that every time a, drink, was. had, and that was quite frequently, Smith would do the buying. for all. . .» .. ; Along in the evening, when each and every individual of tho trio was stag gering | along under a heavy uurden, one of 'the men proposed that a buggy ride was one of the features of the evening's pleasure. Smith, went to a livery stable and secured- a rig. ' The drive which followed" led along Ninth! street and down toward the river. When the bridge was reached Smith's, companions threw . the j visitor out.of. the buggy and after rendering what they considered' was a sufficiency of •'; hard " knocks, proceeded to go through the Fresno man's pockets, re lieving 'him of 'about eighty dollars, i Smith :' was taken to' the police sta tion.and 'related his 'experiences to the authorities. He was unable to give much of a. description of his erstwhile friends' and even when one man who had -been arrested oh suspicion was brought ' before him he was unable to Identify him. JSWrjErW' ' : " LISOCNTS CACHJ a FOR SO CENT* I . CLUETT, PtABOOV * OO.i . . ■•>■■• o» emm >«» bkiicii «»m» - TWO DESPONDENT WOMEN TAKE THEIR OWN LIVES MRS. O. B. STEEN FIRES BULLET THROUGH HEART WOMAN TAKES HER OWN LIFE IN SECLUDED GROVE Suicide Known In Los Angeles as Mrs. . A. L. Harris— Note Written by Her Makes Mention of a Doctor The body of a woman later identified as Mrs. A. L. Harris of San Francisco, was found in a eucalyptus grove near East Lake park yesterday morning. A bullet wound in the breast and a re volver lying near . the dead woman's hand Indicated suicide. ■~.^~~~.~*~~~TL The woman had been staying at the Nadeau, and while suffering from de spondency brought on, it is said, by an unhappy marriage, from which ■ a di vorce released her, and other troubles she had hired a buggy, „ driven to the spot which Is a. se cluded one, tied the horse . ; to the fence and made her way into the field adjoining the road, with the lap robe, w^ilch she carefully spread out on the ground. She then lay down and prepared to die. The .body was still warm when found. The bullet en tered Just below the loft breast and reached the heart. She had evidently held the muzzle of the pistol close to her breast while in a sitting posture and fired, falling back on the robe. Had Many Clothes In her room at the Nadeau were found two trunks and a suit case which were well filled with clothes. A business card in the suit case read Hllbert Manufacturing company, im porters, of San Francisco, and across the end "A. L. Harris, representative," was printed. The woman's toilet articles were scat tered about the room and on the table were two bottles of digitalis and a half emptied glass of whisky. On the dresser wae an old letter addressed to Mrs. A. L. Harris, Hotel Adams, Eddy street, San Francißco. This was not signed and appeared to be from a close friend, but 'gave no Information. A number of letters had been torn up -and thrown on the floor. Into such small bits had most of them been torn that they could not be pieced out, but one slip, larger than the others, bore this fragment of a letter. "Our lives, the doctor's and mine, are fast growing apart. He is a bright and noble fellow and a noble physi cian, but In some ways very selfish. "There are two things I hate In man kind, one is a -liar and the other a bunch of selfishness." H. Alden, one of the proprietors of the hotel Raid yesterday that the wo man had come there, asking for a room and given her name as -Mrs. Harris and had paid for the room until March 2. She took her meals in the cafe and spent much of her time in her room. Thursday afternoon sh« order ed a livery rlgr, paying for it In advance and telling the liveryman not to worry if she was a little late in returning. When Police Detective Cowan took charge of the vehicle he gave the horse ltn head and. the animal trotted straight to the Tally-Ho stables on Flrßt street, where it was learned that the rig had been taken out the day before by Mrs. Harris who was stop ping at the Nadeau. Pistol by Body When the body was found there was nothing on it to *how who the woman was.. .In a smull handbag wai a purse containing five cents. Beside the body lay the pistol and the maker's box In which It came. The mystery of the woman's identity \va» not solved until the horse which she had driven LOS ANGELES HERALD J SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 4, 1905. MRS. A. L. HARRIS went back to the stable and thus made identification easy. According to Information obtained yesterday Mrs. Harris*, maiden name was Buckingham, and she was origi nally from Ohio. When quite young she' married a physician in Chicago and later went to Montana, but they were not happy together and after a few year's were divorced. She was a refined looking and hand some woman of about 28 years of age, had a wealth of light reddish brown hair, weighed about 140 pounds and was five feet, five inches In height. The police consider the case a delib erate suicide.' There were no signs of a struggle and no tracks leading away from the place where the body was found. The police could not find evi dence that the woman was accom panied by a man at any time after she 'left the hotel. A. L. Harris was notified of the death of his wife and last night wired them directions for the funeral from San Francisco. The Inquest will be held this morning at Pierce Bros, morgue. TO HONOR NEW HEAD CONSUL J. H. .Foley to Be Welcomed Home Today by Woodmen John H. : Foley, who has recently been promoted to the head consulship of the Woodmen of the World, will re turn to Lob Angeles today from Den ver, where he accompanied the remains of the former hend consul, F. Falken burgr. The local Woodmen are making; preparations for a reception to be held In Woodmen's temple, Mercantile place, next Monday evening. It Is expected Unit Karl Rogers will deliver an address of welcome to the new head consul, and will be followed by T. C. Veale of Pasadena, and W, B. Ames of San Francisco. Woodmen of the Wordld orchestra will furnish mußlo.'<SgSß It Is expected this affair will be largely attended as Mr. Foley is well known and very popular. The j affair wlll.be a welcome home after his pro motion, to the highest office in , the i>i tier. JUDGE FAILS AS PEACEMAKER HUSBAND BEGS WIFE TO RETURN TO HIM Couple Hopelessly Separated, Al though No Deerea of Divorce Hat Been Granted . ' , at Yet A postponement of proceedings -was ordered In Judge Allen's court yester day In the ensa of a petition for di vorce asked by Annie J. Fraser against Fred 11. Fnmer, and although the Judge played the part of peacemaker, his efforts were unavailing:, and husband and wife left the court room, hopelessly separated. The couple own a small farm at the outskirts of tho city nhrl a little home on the property. This the woman wanted mortgaged to help In her sup port during tho divorce proceedings. The couple have two beautiful daugh ters and the young women appeared In court with their mother. "Don't you think this trouble enn be settled without a divorce?" asked the Judge of the woman. "Don't you think thnt for the sake of your daughters you might consent to a reconciliation? Do you not know, with your little property gone Hnd your daughters rely ing on you for support, that they will be thrown upon tho temptations of tho world?" queried Judge Allen, while the father sat rt-eeping in the witness chair. "No," answered tho woman, "I will consent to no reconciliation, and I have the future well being of my daughters at heart when I take this stop." The husband then went to the woman and pleaded with her to let bygones be bygones, but she was firm and the divorce proceedings will continue. Adelle Hilderbrandt of Pasartena was granted a divorce from her hus band, Fred Hilderbrandt, In Judge Al len's, court yesterday morning. The woman was married August IG, 1003. Scarcely had the honeymoon elapsed and the Christmas festivities were at hand, when the husband was alleged to have become tired of his wife while they were living at Long Beach and deserted her. 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