Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-20
A SAD ENDING.

Mrs. Professor Waldo, While Labor
 ing Under a Fit of Temporary
 Insanity, Wanders All Day in the
 Woods And Is Found Dying at the
 Foot of Pine Rock.
 For several weeks the wife of Professor Leonard Waldo of the Yale observatory has been much prostrated by nervousness and has for several days past been quite ill at her home, No. 459 Prospect street. For days and nights past her suffering from nervous ness was intense. The nurse who has been with. her constantly fell asleep about 4 o'clock yesterday morning and when she awoke two hours later Mrs Waldo had dis appeared, after having bundled herself up in various suits of clothing. The police were notified and Detective Reilly and number of the college students, together with several Yale professors, began thorough search for the missing woman, it having been first un- derstood that the whistle at the Winchester armory should be blown for two. minutes when Mrs. Waldo was found to notify the searching party of the fact. At 5 o'clock the whistle sounded, notifying the weary searchers of the finding of Mrs. Waldo, Rl the foot of Pine Rock about half-past 4 o'clock. The body was first discovered by a man named Robinson, and other members of the searching party soon arrived. It was the opinion of the coroner and others that the unfortunate lady fell off the rock down a steep declivity- The fall was about thirty feet She was still living when found, but breathed her last in half an hour. The police ambulance was sent for and at once dis patched to the scene, but before it arrived a private carriage had arrived as near the spot as the road would allow, and the remains upon 8 stretcher were gently borne to the home of the grief stricken husband. The deceased was very estim- able lady,. highly cultivated, and the news of her sad death will cast gloom over a very large circle of friends to whom she was much endeared. Her overwrought ner- vous condition with attendant sleeplessness had no doubt caused sudden Aunbalancing of her mind owing to the tension, and in this state she wandered. She had never mani tested any indication of insanity before. The house is situated but a short distance from the edge of the woods and the place where she was found was about mile and quarter from her residence in a northwest direction. Pine Rock is back of West Rock in the town of Hamden. The deceased was about 35 years of age and leaves three beautiful chil- dren.
 This startling incident in the Waldo fam ily recalls the attempted suicide of Mrs. Waldos sister at Double Beach during the first week of last July It will be remem- bered that Mrs. Waldo and her sister accom- panied by little girl drove down from this city in beach wagon, and when they ar rived at Double Beach the lady jumped out of the carriage, rushed to the top of high cliff, threw her parasol aside and jumped off into the water. She was temporarily deranged at the time. She was saved by q boatman, but died in this city 8 week or two later.
 Mrs. Waldo's maiden name was Fullerton. She was niece of Judge Fullerton.
 Further details of the sad affair are as fol- lows: The unfortunate lady was seen to fall by her faithful and devoted nurse, Mrs Fow- Ter, and by lady who resided in the vicinity of where the affair occurred. They saw Mrs. Waldo on the edge or brow of the cliff acting as if in dazed state and turning about as if to descend the cliff backward and hardly knowing what to do, and while in this act she was seen to lose her footing and was distance of thirty or forty feet. She was wholly unconscious when found. Sev- eral physicians were telephoned or sent for, one in Westville, also Dr. Stetson of High street, and one other, but human skill was of no avail. In her fall the deceased had frac- tured the base of her skull and her death was undoubtedly painless. The lady's third child was born about four months ago and she had suffered since greatly owing to fever and it's results, and she had of late, as before stated, suffered much from insomnia The searching parties were notified, as above stated, that the search was over. Professor Waldo, who had been searching for hours, was on his way to the place where the body was found when Mrs. Waldo was discovered. He had received news that his wife had been seen in the vii cinity where she was found. The place whore she was found was near the roadway to the quarries. Professor Tracy Peck and Secretary Robert Brown, jr., of the observa- tory; were among those in the search.
 The deceased was born in Agra, India, where her father was engaged in the mis- sionary work, and was two years of age when the great rebellion occurred. Her parents received warning from friendly natives just in time to enable them to reach with their children place of safety, whence shortly they beheld their dwelling, which they had just vacated, in flames. The mother few years later returned with her children to this