The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-26
mrs, AKRIDCE'S SUICIDE.
rbp WOman'S Strange Actions While
in Savannah.

..5ir Fear of Being Killed By Her
IH4ber-rhe story She Told Her
-d1adv About Her Family Frou~
t1..--Her Appeal to the Police For
.4sction-Escorted to the Depot by
an officer.
No stella Akridge, the account of
- spfcide in Macon last night
'e..blisbed in to. days MORNING News,
,s-gS in savannah for several months.
l Htoo.rne here from Quincy, Fla, where
sEasIaimed to have relatives. She Sc
&c room at Mrs. Bryan's, No. Sc Bar
uard street
.5Iodvlike in her ways and talked little
I+he other dodgers. She bought her
s.or-isions. and did her own cooking in
-. roorn on an oil stove. She did fine
-S,broidery work and hand-painting, by
-Li.b means she made some money.
hrt her chief source Of supply
soered to be from her brother
-rTorn she said, kept store at Herndon,
W. the Central railroad. lie frequently
u her small amounts of money and par
oois containing shoes and other articles of
wearing apparel. oHS ul.A HO' SOOHA w NC
IN want and always paid her room rent
properly
BoRE TRACES OF TROUBLE.
Mrs Akridge had the appearance Of a
,roman who had undergone a great deal
" tronble. She said that her husband
1-as still living, but had left her and that
beTbahv was dead. Her brother, or her
husband. as some of the people at the
bopSp believed him to be, visited her oc-
lasionalIy. He gave his name as Ray
roond sanford. She said that their
father was DR.. Sanford, a former promi-
nent citizen of Quincy, Fla, now dead,
: Mrs. Akridge and her brother appeared
IN act very strangely. He is described as
nal ~ ALL Tgbt complexion and light hair,
very neatly dressed and very quiet and
aentlemaniy in his manner. His sister,
however. seemed to be very much afraid
of him and avoided seeing him as
much as possible. She told the
other dodgers one time that
he had tried to poison her by sending her
noisoned tooth powder, and that he had
threatened to cut her throat. She said
that he threatened to kill her for the
good of the community, but that she told
him it would do the community no good
TO kill her. Her talk and
actions excited much comment among the
other. dodgers and she was regarded as
something of a mystery. IL did not seem
to occur to anyof them, however, that she
was out of her mind.
SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN INSANE.
The incidents that led up to the suicide
occurred in Savannah. When a MORNING
News reporter called at No. So Barnard
street last night, he found the occupants
in a great state of excitement A telegram
had Just been received addressed to that
number announcing Mrs. Akridge's sui
eide and asking conformation concerning
her Although a shock, the telegram was
no surprise TO the people of the house,
owing to the Incidents preceding her de-
parture. On Tuesday morning her
brother, Raymond Sanford, called at the
house She was expecting him,
as she had told Mrs. Bryan that
her brother had failed in business, which
had caused him to become insane, and
that he was going to kill her.
Young Sanford went up to her room
No Is, and knocked on the door. She
refused to open the door, claiming
that she was bathing, and told
him that she would meet him
al the home of her aunt, Mrs. M. s.
Haupt, N Anderson street, in the after
noon, Sanford did not seem inclined tC
go away, however, and remained around
the house
THREW NOTE OUT OF THE WINDOW.
Mrs. Akridge remained in her room and
Threw the following note out of her win
dow to Mrs Bryan:
Ny brother is here and wants me. He is
insane and wants to kill me. Please protect
me, IN GODS name. | dare not leave the
room. am nervous.
MRS. AKRIDGE.
... In Room Is.
The note was written in a very. strag
nd nd cl, ri,
OF excitement in which the woman was
thinking Mrs. Akridge's brother was
aoout 10 kill her Mrs. Bryan sent at once
lor Policeman 1t was some time before
cue could be secured and when he arrived
young Sanford had left She did
not Keep her appointment to meet
ner Urother at her aunt's, but remained
CLOSELY IN the house all day.
request was made on the police for
plo.ecIon, and the men on duty on that
JedV were instructed to make calls at the
mouse IN passing during the day and night
MuIch was done. Detective Morgan
earned OF the case and called at the
night ''-'~-
ESCORTED BY THE POLICE
MrS' Akrldge was almost crazed with
Iedr and excitement She spent the
bignT IN Mrs. Bryan's room, but slept
49, any she decided to leave on the
EEotlllng train for Macon to escape her
I 1tVIner, and packing up a few things,
@iV the house at 6 o'clock.
FFo.oE.ea by Policeman Jernigan. Nothing
tut!Ief was heard of her at-the house
o on1a lhe telegram was received last night
oall eng ner suicide. The news was
sledV shock to the occupants of the
~ muse use who had all taken an interest
~ T TIe Mule woman and her troubles.
riL luere IS little doubt from the account
S giSe9 Of 6er actions that Mrs. Akbridge's
i i'm. NAG become unbalanced from brood.
ing over her troubles Her belief that
r gr brother intended to kill her
was doubtless haIlucination.
var, rom the account of her suicide, it was
wor1o. eViqently the act of an insane
V WUr1d9 Her brother may still be in Sa.
n ,opn ian with his relatives though he has
city 0in0e MS sister lett tht
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