The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-11-07
JUMPED FROM A TRAIN.
Pretty Miss HOrwitz Failed In
Fer Attempt to Commit
Suicide.

TURNER'S FALLS, -A{sss., Nov. Z, 1893
Miss Mary Barrol Horwttz of Baltimore.
who has been working as a domestic in
this place under the name of Lena NJ.
Grayson aud VINO attempted suicide last
Wednesday by throwing herself from
train. wrote in her diary few days beR
fore her attempt stself destruction:-
Il f1nd the people here very pleasant
and kind hut | shall oulY remain nine
days. II do not hear from Mrs. Well
man then shall throw myself from the
train"
The nine days expired, and Mrs. Well.
man not appearing. the girl said TO Mrs.
Starouck. of Turner's Falls. with whom
she was living:-
81 should like TO 90 to Greenf1elds this
afternoon"
Permission being given, she bought
ticket for Greenfield aud entered train.
nothing unusual being noticed IN her
appearance. When the train had pulle
out or Montague City. Conductor War
rem missed her. aud as he did not see her
get eff at the station. it looked little
strange. This was about two O'Clock In
the afternoon.
When the. same train returned from
Greenfield about three O'Clock the girl
was found UNCONSCIOUS beside the track
about mile from Turner's Falls. An
examination showed no further Injuries
than dislocatsd shoulder, except the
general shaking up that she received.
She was conveyed to the Farrsn House,
where she WAS carefully nursed.
Mrs Horwitz came here several weeks
ago, She was without funds and went
to the boarding house of Mrs. c.. T..
Quimby and asked 10 be allowed TO WORK
for her board until she could Sc cure q
more remunerative place. She later
secured place with Mrs. W. D. Russell.
L., L.,
she was discharged within twenty-four
hours. She then went Co Mrs. Starbuck.
who employed her. Her conduct her3
was so ladylike and she was so willing
that her employers look no notice of her
queer ways.
Sne has seven diaries in all. dating
back as far as 1885. some of them written
in Germany, where she was studying.
The entries here and there show that the
miud OF the writer was unbalanced. In
several places she speaks in more or less
clear terms of her unhappiness aud self~
Inflicted death as an eud to it. She re.
fers In gentle words IL the kindness OF
her father and mother during all hsr
troubles.
1t appears that her parents becam5
alarmed at her mental condition about
year ago, and sent her to private hos
pital near ltimore, whera she had as u
nurse Ms. Weuman. Shs writes OF an
6SlEhuReul6ub D0tW WSeu u6FS0lI anu Q6E
father, because he would not sign a
paper for her release from the hospital,
for she was kept In confinement to GER
tain extent. She before long elud ID the
nurse and got TO the Bellevue Farm. nea~
Hindsdale, n. H; this was last Augu t.
She constantly refers in her diary to spies
and complains that some one is following
her. She writes that Mrs. Wellman wants
to see her. and wonders why Sue does NOS
come. Then she went to Turner's Falls,
where she has heard Mrs. Wellman
lives. Under the date of October "a she
writes: Il have been here TWO days now,
and like it as far as can like anything
or any place. take pains to try aud do
as we'll as can to leave a pleasant tm-
preston, so that up to the last of my
being in this world l shall have done the
| best that l can"
Farther along she mentions hatuin as
an instrument of suicide, saYing:-"I had
| it in such position that if had pushed
it two inches it would have penetrated
my heart, but l did not, IS l haven't seen
Mrs. Wellman yet" In the front of
the diary is pasted the death notice of J..
E. Barroll, a newspaper man who was
| connected with the Elkton (Md.) NelUs-
| Democrat and Whig aud correspondent
of the Baltimore Sun.
When asked why sne tried to end her
lite she said:-
Il do not know" and would say noth-
ing further except that she would try
again if she had the chance.