Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-11
MISS HALL YET LOST.
Nine Searching Parties Fail to Find
the Missing Young Lady
AFTER LOOKING FOR MANY HOURS.
Fears That She gss Committed Suicide, as
1t Is Learned
SHE ONCE TRIED TO DROWN HERSELF

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.l
NEW CANAAN, CONN, Dec 10-Soon
after dark this evening the last of the nins
searching parties, who have been securing
the country south, southeast and southwest
of here, returned, and none of them re
ported having found even Q clew of the
missing Miss Julia H Hall, daughter ol
Banker Russell L. Hall, Of this town.
The search to-day was pursued in the
directions only of Stamford, Darian, and
along the Branchville road, because in
formation that seemed almost positive came
to the family last night that Miss Hall was
seen within three hours of her disappear
ance yesterday afternoon walking south on
the Marine road, about two miles south OF
here. Tonight that clew turns out to be Of
very doubtful character, and there il
absolutely nothing now to guide the search
ers, who will start out again tomorrow at
daylight
Soon after Miss Hall was found at New
Rochelle, after her Thanksgiving Day dis
appearance, Miss De Wolf, of Hartford,
came to visit the Halls and remained until
yesterday afternoon.
She had been an intimate schoolgirl
friend of Miss Hall at the Connecticut
Normal School, ana her companionship had
bene6cent effect upon Miss Hall, raising
her spirits to such degree that the family
thought all danger of return of the mental
depression from which Miss Hall had
suffered had entirely passed.
Within a few days Miss Hall had re-
sumed her old place in the evening family
gatherings. Yesterday, however, she did
seem depressed at the prospect of Miss De
VOLTS departure, and this relapse was un-
fortunately aggravated by the undisguised
curiosity expressed about her condition by
two women who called and were seen by
Miss Hall.
When Miss De Wolff left the house
Julia was lying on q lounge in the dining
room, and did not go to the door to say
goodby. Mrs Hall did, and then busted
herself about some household duties. At
neighbor, Mrs. Raymond, called. She was
shown into the sitting room, adjoining the
the dining room.
The Last Seen of Julia Hall.
Mrs Hall stepped into the dining room
and asked Julia If she would see Mrs. Ray
mond. Julia said she preferred not to do
she halt closed the door 80 that the lounge
where Julia lay would be hidden from Mrs.
RAYMOND. That was the last her mother
saw of her. It is the last, so far as is posi-
lively known, that anyone saw of her.
When Mrs. RAYMOND left, at about 4:30
o'clock, Mrs. Hall went to the dining room,
and missing her daughter, made q hurried
search of the house, and then went around
the neighborhood with the news that Julia
had again disappeared. One of the first
places searched was the we'll just outside
the back door of MI. Halls house by which
Julia left
The search was made for reason that is
made public now for the first time. Three
weeks before her first disappearance, Julis
came into ner house with all her clothes
saturated with water. She explained to her
amazed mother that she had just tried to
drown herself in the well.
An Attempt TO Drown Herself.
The well bucket is drawn by chain.
Letting the bucket down to the water she
had lowered herself by the chain and
crouched in>tbe bottom of the we'll There
was only a foot of water there then, and she
could not get her head under, although by
crouching down she had brought the water
up to her throat Failing in her attempt to
drown herself she had climbed up by the
chain to the surface.
This story was told by Rev. Nj. Bowers,
who added that for slight, delicate woman,
incumbered with clothing heavy with water,
to1climb up small chain out OF deep well
seems to him an almost superhumau feat.
This, connected with the facts regarding
Miss Halls previous disappearance, has
created general belief here that the un-
fortunate woman, manifestly afflicted with
suicidal mania, has provided some sure
means of doing away with herself.
Miss Hall is pretty, popular and SO years
old. Last spring, owing to i'll health, she
was obliged to give up a position she had
long held in the borough postoffice and also
that of librarian of the free reading room.
She is lady of culture and education, a
prominent and active member of the Meth
odist Church and the Epworth League, and
a leader in the society OF her native town.