New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-04-24
WEDNESDAY,
APRIL "a, 1895.
SUICIDE OF A YOUNG GIRL.
JULIA GROSS FEARED BEING SENT AWAY
FROM HOME.

HER MANGLED BODY FOUND IN THE YARD OF
HER HoME-sHE HAD EVIDENTLY JUMPED
FROM A HIGH wINDow-THE Po-
LICE INVESTIGATING A STORY
SHE TOLD on MONDAY.
.,u.ia Gross a sxteen-year-od girl who disappears
from her home at No G29 East Twe.fth-st. on sat
urday night and returned Monday, was found
lying dead at o'clock yesterday morning In the
yard OF her home. Her skull was crushed ana sns
must have been instantly killed There seems no
doubt that the girl committed suicide by jumping
from window the fourth floor. The motive
for the girls suicide is that her parents Intended
to send her away yesterday 10 the House or the
Good Shepherd. Rather than go there, she pre-
ferred to kill herself Julia LEFT her home on sat
urday night to her friend. Mamie Leopart
The girls separated at Avenue b and Fifteenth-st
Julia then disappeared. When she returned hons
Monday she told her parents that man about
thirty years old met her and handed her note.
which he said from Ter brother. The note
directed her to accompany the stranger. She did
So she said, and the man took her downtown to
house which she could not again locate and locked
her in a room. She stayed there until Monday
morning when she managed TO escape from the
house. The girl was taken 10 Police Headquarters
Monday, and detectives detailed TO nvesti-
gate her story She tried TO find the house where
she said she had been imprisoned. but could not
do So IL Is understood that her parents scolded
her when she returned home Monday, and decided
to have her sent 10 the House OF the Good Shop
herd. The girl and her elder sister Helen. occu-
pied the same bed Monday night. At . o'clock
yesterday morning the father, who is a cigar
maker, arose to prepare for work. lie glanced into
his daulhter's bedroom to see T. Julia sleeping
He found only occupant in the bed. This was
Helen. Julia had left it, and her clothing was not
in the room. The father made search OF the
different rooms. He found Of the kitchen win
dows open and looked out. Az he glanced down
into the yard he uttered shrek that aroused
many OF the tenants in the house. There, on the
stone pavement in the yard. lay the crushed ana
bleeding form OF his younger daughter The girls
mother was aroused. and her cries echoed through
the house as she rushed wildly down the stairway
until she reached the yard, where she threw ner-
self across the llfeess body OF her child.
IL was at first thought ihat the girl was making
an effort 10 escape from her home when she met
her death. II believed that she was going
down the rea- ire-escape when she lost her balance
and fell head,ong 20 the yard. where the lie was
however and there was nothing but suicide TO
explain the girls death The window which the
unhappy father found open was not the one op,
pOsite the fre-escape. The girl must have opened
dressed when found. with the exception OF her hat
While her sister slept soundly. she must have
steal hily LETT the bed and dressed herself. HeS
clothing showed that she had not donned II in
haste Il is supposed that the reprimand from.
her parents touched her deeply. as she ls SAID 10
have been child of a sensitive nature. The fear
stitution also tortured her. Helen says the girl
restless after retiring. and II Is likely that she
slept only a little before she arose TO Kill herse.L
The parents distracted with sr!ef.