New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-04-26
MRS. CHARLES Z. HODGES KILLS HERSELF
FOUND DROWNED IN TIE B,TTTUB At HER
HOME IN BROOKLYN.

| HOME Is BROOKLYN.
| suicide with peculiar features occurred ycStor-
| day in the Gai house, at n. G1j It. Mark'save..
| EroOklyn. Mrs. Elise Hodges wife Of Charles f..
Hodges drowned herself In The hathub after turning
| on the gas in the and .lufing the cracks abou
| the door and window with strips Of cloth. In de
| bcratcncss and method the suicide remarkable.
Mrs Hodges thirty three ycnrS old and had been
| married ten years. She and her husband had one
child. who Is nearly nine years old Mr.. Hodges IL
the superintendent OF tho knit good, department Of
barnard Co.. dcalcrs Of sporting goods at Nos. I
and Bond st.. New York. lie had salary of
5000 year. and wa about 10 60 TO Chicago to tah"
charge Of an exhibit at The Worlds Fair
The family had occupied for year the top Nat
in four story brOwnstonc apartment house at Bed
ford and 81. Marks ayes. near the Union League
clubhouse The husband and wife appeared 10 be
devoted TO each other. Mr. Hodges had secured
tickets 10 60 vessel 10 the naval review
tomorrow with his wife and child. lie left the
apartments at bis usual hour. a. m yesterday. 10
go 10 business. I> wife accompanied him 10 the
elevator and kissed him with apparent nnociion.
The little girl started for school half hour later.
and tie mother also her 10 the elevator snd gave
her Il goodby Mss. Nothing seen OF her
until she was found dead IN the bahtub In the middle
VI the afternoon
OF the Other occupants Of the building found
their water supply from the tank on The roof had
Of the building they said thlt water was dripping
through the ceiling from tho bathroom Of Mrs.
Iiodgcs's apartments, and ther odor oi IN
the hallway. The engineer. Edson u. Jennings. went
to tho top floor and found the door of The back
room locked and unable 10 force II open readily
Ms. Hodges not TO b. found IN her apartments.
lie then sent The elevator hoy. Joseph Hor-ord. up
IN the fire escape al rcr Of The building To break
open the bathroom window the fourth floor The
hoy found the flll Of ga, and Jaw Mr.. Hodges
Wing in the bathtub ard he returned fun Of horror
at the discovery be had made The lock Of the or
WIS then broken aud the evidences OF deliberate sui
eide were Disclosed.
MI, Hodge, had dsrobcd for a bath and had torn
mp some Of her linen TO stun the cracks about th"
door and window rishty. and had then turned on
the cas After filling the bathtub and getting into
IT, -hc had left the water running that IT overflow d
the tub. >hc had evidently been dead ,"vcIal hours
\ letter addressed her husband found lying on
II table in her Dire sing room
The police Of the Twenty second Precinct were
Informed Of the Suicide and Policeman McNiullen was
.,nt 10 take chars, Of the ir,dy. Mr. Hodges was
sent for and was terribly shocked by the tragedy
which had occurred I'm his absence. lie refused 20
say whether he knew any cause for his wife's act
and woukl disclose nothing in regard TO the contents
Of the letter his wife had left for him. lie said she
had her trunks packed to accompany him TO Ch
cago Mr.. Hodges had cnioycd the best OF health
recently and her friends attribute her act 10 suicidal
mania resulting from mclancbolia She n blonde
with iair hair she had gr,nt fDndncss for her
daughter Flossic who Is pretty girl.
Sew, Of the case sent 10 Coroner Crcamer
las, evening but he decided To defer the viewing Of
the body and the inquest until day. and gave per
mission to undertakes to prepare the body for
burial The extreme taken by Mrs Hedges
showed evident determination 10 succeed in killing
herself