Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-11-07
HER MIND IS CLOUDED
The Past Life of Miss
Greyson" Revealed.
WAS REARED IN LUXURY.
Made Desperate But Intellectual At
tempt to Commit Suicide.

GREENFIELD, Mass, Nov. 81 find the
people here pleasant and kiud, but shall
remain here only nine days. II / do not
hear from Mrs. Wellman then I shall
throw myself from the train" These
words were written by Mis- Barrell Howitz
In her diary, and furnished the key to the
mystery surrounding "Miss Greyson"
who attempted suicide near Turner's
Falls The nine days expired, and Mrs. We =
man not appearing, the girl said to Mrs.
Shattuck Of Turner's Falls, with whom
she was living, Il should like TO 90 to
Greenfie d this aftern on.
Permission was given, and an hour or
two later the girl threw herself from the
train on the Turner's Falls branch, near
the pine woods, with the evident inten tion
of dashiug out her brains.
For nearly an hour she was unconscious
beside the track. When she was discov-
cred she WAS AIKEN TO the Farren House
and every attention WAS given her While
she was in Turner'S Falls she was en-
ployed as domestic, and yet this girl, do
ing the coarse work of the kitchen, had
been r, ared in luxury, given the best edu.
cation the schools Of this country afforded,
and had her education completed at a
leading institute At Zurich.
Back of all this is pitiful story-par-
EMS searching for their daughter, she
writing them letters pure of thought and
diction, then estrangement from her
father because Of d sordered mind; shift
lug from one place to another so rapidly
that her parents would not recsive her let
ters before she would have located else
where. The story in detail Is as follows:
Was Ont Of Funds
A few months ago q woman giving tho
name OF l. na Greyson came to Turner's
Fails and went TO the boarding house of
Mrs. g. II. Quimby. She was without
funds, but h"r 81 thing showed that she
came from the upper ranks Of life. She
asked for work aud said she was willing
to work for her board until she could fnd
q more r,munerative situation.
She inserted an advertisement in local
paper soliciting work as domestic and 1t
was answered by w. ID. Russell, the treas
urer of the Montague Paper company, who
engaged her to work in his house. The
girl acted strangely rs soon rs she went
there and slammed the do RS and acted in
such q way that she was retained only "a
hours. She then returned to Mrs. Quimby,
aud while here incurred bill at tue store
OF SHdtIuCk anu went 10 MS QOube 10
work until it was liquidated.
1t was while there that she wrote the
entry in her diary with which this story
was begun. After staying at the Farreu
House from the time OF the attempt on
her life until last Sunday evening she
was without funds, and 1t was determined
to take her 10 Mrs. Quimbly's house
again. Miss Shattuck visited her, and
IN, \
requested Miss Shattuck to take certain
things from her trunk, which was still at
Mrs Shattuck's residence, aud bring them
to the Farren House.
Had Bsen In an ANlum.
On opening the trunk Miss Shsttuck
saw the di ,ry mentioned above. Her sus-
picious bling aroused she opened the b ok
aud she found that Miss Greyson was not
a menial, but the daughter Of Il. b.
Howitz, prosperous lawyer, now retired
from business in Baltimore The diary
WIS very voluminou, and dated back to
1885, when she was at school in Europe
and showed she was fitting herself to be-
come physician.
She seemed to have been happy and
money WAS furnished by her parents for
everything she could desire. Her mind
became clouded from overwork and her
parents then placed her in an asylum in
America. She became embittered against
her father for keeping her under restraint
and the diary showed that after time she
succeeded IL escaping from the asylum
and came north.
II also shows that she has been en-
ployed in cotton mill at Warren, later as
q domestic by some Of the ladies Of tho
Christian Tpnnerauce Union of Snrinu-
field, and testimonial from one of them
speaks of her in the highest terms
There Is no doubt whatever of her In.
sanity, and her parents have been notified
Of her whereabouts aud condition and are
expected to come and care for her She Is
on fair way to recovery, however.