SUICIDE COMPACT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2406, 22 January 1909, Page 6

SUICIDE COMPACT.

AMAZING LETT KITS OF A DEAD AMERICAN. ACTRESS.

Some extraordinary letters were leit by Mrs. Eleanor Mo iron Cowper, ihe actress and playwright, who shot herself in one cl ihe most fashionable -hotels in New York-. Alter being taken to the hospital the. actress resolutely declined nourishment and died. Her lawyer now makes public a letter which discloses the fact that she committed suicide in agreement with Mr. James H. W a Hack, an actor, who shot himself last May alter losing his health and fortune. Mrs. Cowper postponed the fulfilment of her agreement repeatedly in order not to inconvenience her lawyer, to whom she finally wrote: — n I intend to go into-a big .sleep on Thursday night. I have engaged my box, and I find I/can dress myself. I only need to be lifted in. Let there be no embalming for me. I always did hate to bo handled. The new r process of electric cremation only takes. 40 minutes. I prefer to be taken out of my box for that, for I don’t see the use for a -lot of ironmongery being mixed with my ashes. When you get the can X want you to open it and place the ashes directly in the ground. It will only need a .small bit of turf to be removed."