The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-12
WORRY And Suicide.
Mrs. Haase, of Hoboken,
Brooded Over Her
Mothers Infirmity.
HER MIND FINALLY GAVE WAY.
She Shot Herself Dead with a Re-
volYer at Her Home Yesterday.

Mrs. Eliza J. Haase, of No. 105 Fourth
street, Hoboken, came to the conclusion
yesterday that life was not worth living
and shot herself dead.
The big organ of st. Mary Of the Angels
Church, right opposite the unfortunate
woman's residence, was pealing forth in
numerous tones hymn of praise.
MRS. Haase sat at her window for few
moments listening and then burst into
Tears. She soon, however, dried her eyes
ana began to pace her room. Finally the
suicidal impulse overcame her. She
pointed revolver at her head, Just over
tne right ear, and sent a bullet crashing
through her brain.
She was found by her husband, upon
ms return home, on the floor of the apart
quite dead. She had her arms crossed on
ner breast and her face bore q calm ex-
preston.
GOOD WORDS.
L spoke with several people about Mrs.
Haase this morning. They all had good
word for her. She was a model wife,
tney said, and seemed to live very happily
with her husband until very recently,
when her mother, a Mrs. Quinten, of New
York, came to live with her Mrs Quin-
ten, 1t appears, was fond of drink, and
became such a nuisance that MIR. and
Mrs. Haase were obliged to send her
away.
Shortly after this Mrs. Haase. for the
first time in her life, began to suffer from
melancholia. All the sunshine seemed to
have been taken out of her existence She
moped and moped and finally began to do
and say strange things. She had an idea
that people in communications to her
nelghbors, signed with her name, were
slandering her friends and relatives.
FINALLY DRIVEN CRAZY
This hallucination took such a strong
hold on her that it made her quite miser-
able, and she used to go about protesting
to people that she did not write these let
ters at all. Her husband, who was very
much devoted to her, tried in every possi-
Bile way to calm her fears.
He used to tell her that she was nerv-
Gus; that she must be laboring under
some delusion, and that nobody as q mat
ter of fact had written any letters of a
slanderous nature with her or any other
person. signature. But do all he could
the husband could not eradicate from the
the woman's mind the idea that she was
the victim OF conspiracy.
FAREWELL LETTER
After her suicide her husband found
this letter in the bureau in their bed
ROOM
This persecution is becoming intoierable. I
feel that my mind Is giving way, and oh, believe
me have not written Of these terrible let
ters that am charged with. My hand has been
initiated and my name forged. Icannot stand
the strain any longer.
May the Judge 81 all the earth deal with these
conspirators as they have dealt with me. Your
suffering wife, ELIZA ]. HAAsE,
The revolver with which Mrs. Haase
put an end to herself had lain in an old
bureau for six or seven years and Mr..
Haase had forgotten all about it. He is
the owner of some lighters and he fre-
quently used to leave his wife alone on
the boats at nights. He had taught her
how to use firearms in case she were ever
attacked on the lighter.
The deceased was thirty-one years old.
She was of the medium height, fair haired
and blue eyed, and rather good looking.
Coroner O'Hara has notified the County
Physician.