Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-03-09
THREW HERSELF IN THE RIVER

The BODY of Mrs. Henry A. Minor
Found in West River-Footsteps
In the Snow-A Note to Her Hus.
band-work of Searching Parties.
All day yesterday searching parties were
securing West river for some trace of the
missing young woman, Mrs. Henry A.
Minor, who left her home at No. 10 Yer
non street about 10 o'clock Friday morn
ing, and was last seen near the Congress
avenue bridge few hours after.
It was not until about half past four
o'clock yesterday afternoon that her body
was discovered floating in the river near
the Spite bridge by Daniel Gibney of 9
Edgar street. It had been caught by one
of the spiles which had been sawed off
slightly below the surface of the water,
and her head alone was visible from the
bank. He procured boat and towed the
body to the shore where it was examined
by Medical Examiner White, who arrived
soon after the news of the finding of the
body was sent to him.
The medical examiner found the body
frozen, and he considered it had been in
the water since Friday afternoon. A small
gold watch which Mrs. Minor carried in
her bosom was stopped at 4;38 o'clock.
Sometime before the discovery of the
body"a light shoulder cape and hood,
which had been worn by the missing
woman when she left her home on Friday
morning, were found upon the bank of
| the river, about 400 feet below the bridge,
by one of the two searching parties, which
| had been dragging the river for he body.
These evidently had been washed ashore
at high tide.
The second of the searching parties,
both of which had been dragging the river
up from the Kimberly avenue bridge, here
| joined the first and the river bed was
dragged with rakes from the point where
the cape and hood of the missing woman
were found. Before the party had reached
the bridge, however, the news was taken
to them that the body had been found.
| After the examination by Medical Elk
aminer White the body was conveyed in
the ambulance to Blair's undertaking es
tablishment.
Before leaving her home on Friday
morning, Mrs. Minor left a short letter tt
her husband. In it she stated that she was
| going away and that he would never set
her again. She told neighbor that she
was going out make few calls upon hel
friends
| WHICH, MT M1uOr, WHO ID q cleIh III tut
| long warf freight Office, arrived home anc
found the brief note left by his wife, h
| became alarmed and search was institu
| ted at once
| The homes of various friends of Mrs
Minor in this city and West Haven were
visited, but none of them had seen Mrs
Minor that day.
| She was traced as far as the Congress
avenue bridge, and it was reported tina
she had been seen in Allingtown. Her,
| all traces of her disappeared.
| Yesterday morning little boy VIII,
lives in the neighborhood was sure he hat
but he could remember nothing NOR
definite.
The idea of suicide was strenthenet
when one Of the searching parties found
traces of a woman's footsteps in the SNOW
| down towards the bank of West river nea
the point where tho last definite report o
Mrs Minor had been found. These track
led down to the river. There seemed NJ
doubt from this moment that the unfor
nate woman had thrown herself into tn,
river and to this the searchers confnet
their efforts.
That Mrs Minor was not in her RICH
mind when she left her home seems evi
dent. She had been subject of menta
trouble and had been for four months prio
to last August an inmate of the HARTFORD
insane retreat. She has been at her HON
mostly since leaving the retreat and ha
been apparently in her right mind.
It is not thought that domestic trouble
drove her to the deed of self-destruction
for her friends say that her home life wa
peaceful and happy to all appearances.
The deceased was about thirty-four year
of age and leaves little boy of abou
twelve years.