The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-08-03
BARDVELL MYSTERY
No Light Yesterday AS to
Why the Young Lady
Killed Herself.

NEW YORK. Aug. 8. 1891. The relatives
of Maria Bardwell, the young Boston
woman who shot herself in the U nited
States Hotel. do not appear to desire to
lift the veil of mystery surrounding the
cause of her suicidal act, and that is cue
reason why SO many unpleasant reasons
have gained currency concerning her
tragic death. The Boston lawyer, Joshua
Lovett. to whom Miss Bardwell wrote a
letter just before her death. admits that
she explained why she intended to kill
herself, but that explanation he with
held from the reporters.
The suicides rel tives from Boston arc
expected to reach this city today, and
take charge of the body, which is still
resting In the shop of Undertaken Mooney.
at 95 Greenwich street.
A VISITOR AT MONEYS THIS MORNING
One OF the first visitors at Mooney's
this morning was a flne-looking man
with military air, who called at 9
O'Clock. His beard was bushy and plen-
tifullv streaked with gray, and he wore
heavy gray mustache.
He inquired OF Undertaken Mooney If
Miss Bardwell's brother had come on from
Boston, and when informed 10 the mega
tive requested to see the body. He gazed
affected. He refused to give his name or
to say ANYTHING in relation TO the affair
beyond stating that he lived in New
York. and was no relative of the dead girl.
He left the undertaker's after inQuiring
for n telephone.
Fifteen minutes later he returned, just
after Mrs. Murray, with whom Miss
Bardwell boarded at No. 253 Eighth ave-
nue., had entered the uudertaksI's shop.
The military stranger asked Mrs. Muir
ray 1t she had seen any OF Miss Bard
well IS relatives.
Mrs. Murray replied that she had not,
and then hot words passed between the
two, the military man condemning Mrs.
Murray, for giving facts to the newspa-~
pers which, he claimed, were not au
thentic.
The pair got excited aud spoke of an
aunt Of Miss ardwell's. a Miss Helen
Angel of Springfield, Mass, aud of Mrs.
DR.. Fay of Hoorehead. N. H.
Mrs. Murray grew quite wrathy. She
had found piece of paper in Miss Bard-
wells room, and 1t bore written state
ment, which Mrs. Murray was bound to
give TO the reporters, when the stranger
interfered aud prevented her from SO
doing.
The man grew restless. and moved
about uneasily. taxing off his hat and
placing it on 4 table near the newspRper
meu. Inside WAS card easily seen at q
distance by the reporters, bearing this
name and address: Harry l.. Bard we'll,
wool dealer, 212 Church street; residence,
IT'S ST. Marks place.
He refused to say whether or not that
was his name, and added:-sI came here
as a very interested party merely as an
act of humanity. The girl was undoubt-
edly insane, aud has been for years. She
was high strung and nervous, and all l
know of anv sronbie was that between
Miss Bardwell and her brother. The
stories printed in the papers are false.''
WHO HER TWIN BROTHER IS
The twin brother, Beujamin b. Bard
well. who is expected from Boston today,
is salesman for the Tile Brick Company
of Providence. Their father was
Joseph Bardwell, a big dry goods
dealer at one time in Boston, and now
dead. He is believed to have left his
family in very comfortable crcumstan-
ces, Notwithstanding he met with reyer-
ses In business.
Maria Bardwell, Boston advices say.
had a moderate income, sufficient to sup
port her comfortably. She was quite re-
ligiously inclined.
Mrs. Murray, who left the undertaker's
shop aJ eleven O'Clock, talked with Mr..
Mooney about burial robe, describing
one which Mis- BardweH once spoke OF as
such as she would wish TO have when
she died. Mrs. Murray arranged with
the undertaken to provide such a gar
ment, and said she would pay tor it if the
relatives did not.