New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-08-03
A YOUNG WOMAN'S SUICIDE.
miss NJ. BARDWELL, BOSTON" FOUND
DEAD ON HER BED.
SHE HAD SHOT HERSELF IN THE TEMPLE-I1TT1T
KNOWN ABOUT HER AND NO MOTIVE


KNOWN ABOUT HER AND NO MOTIVE
FOR TIE DEED GIVEN.
A fair young woman. about twenty-seVeh years
old shot herself dead in her room at the United
States Hotel at Pearl and Fulton SITS, some time
during Tuesday night. She was found in her room
by the hotel clerk at noon yesterday. Ihere was
no apparent motive for the act.
The young woman came to the hotel. according
10 the statement Of the clerk, about $50 O'Clock
on Tuesday evening. She carried a small mana
satchel. Her name appears on the motel register
as Miss NJ Bardwell. Boston After she had
registered and paid her bill she went to her room.
The young woman was neatly dressed. She wore
a black serge dress and white waist 1t was
noticed that all her clothing was new Early
Tuesday evening she sent message to Mrs MUIR
raw of No. 25S Eighth-ave. Mrs. Murray came TO
the hotel about $50 o'clock that eveping and saw
the Young woman About yesterday Mrs
Murray teephoned to the hotel and asked how
Miss Bardwell was The clerk went to her room,
and getting no response. went in with pass
key He found her stretched across the pea win
only a nightdrcss on. Her feet were resting on
the floor In her right temple there was pullet
wound from which considerable blood had flowed
The hotel clerk Immediately answered Mrs MUIR
ray's telephone message, asking her to come to the
hotel at once. When she arrived she said that MISS
Bardwen had boarded with her until Tuesday OF
last week; and that her call at the hotel on Tues
day evening was in response TO a message from
Miss Bardwell saying that she was Ill. Mrs. Muir
ray said that she did not find her i'll. Coroner
McKenna and DIR. Weston reached the hotel
about the same time that Mrs Murray did and
it was to them that she made her statement, only
q portion of which given to the reporters
Coroner McKenna and DR.. Weston examined the
body. They found In the room box OF cartridges.
The shooting was done with 22-calibre revolver.
Dr. Weston said that the young woman's name
was correct on the register Mrs Murray told
the Coroner that Miss Bariwell had some means of
her own, and was not obliged TO work for living.
Her guardian. Mrs Murray said. was John Levitt,
of No SO State-st Boston. Benjamin Bates Bard
WELL of No. 4Os Boylson-st. Boston, is said TO be
her brother. Dispatches announcing Miss Bard
wells suicide were sent to both these addresses.
Mrs. Murray told the Coroner that Miss Bardwells
parents were dead. She also said that Miss Bard
well left her house suddenly last week and went
10 South Brooklyn to live
When Mrs Murray was seen at her home last
evening she refused to say anything about the
conversation she had had with Miss Bardwell on
.rsS sI who Questioned her that Miss Bariwcll
WAS a respectable young woman. The neghbors
verified this statement saving that she was regular
Murray received the following dispatch from Boston
last evening:
accompany with relatives ] am executor of her
Will Write Particular; later y w,nrv
Mrs Murray brought the dispatch to D. Mooney
& Sons undertaking establishment, at NO; -
Greenwch-st. where the body had been taken al
8 o'clock last evening. Soon after she left the
undertaking rooms a nne-loohng, wendressed
young man came in to look at the body ne did
not give his name. but he said that he had known
Miss Bardwell for several years. She had four
ton He said that re saw Miss Bardwel few
nights ago in Broadway. He spoke to her ana
For some time past he said. she had acted queery
Sch nas n ana S s 3 fact peed her
mind and affected ii seriously.