The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-25
THE NoRTHAM SUICIDE.

She Was Emma oswold-Had Worked
 for the Spencer Optical Company
 The body of the woman who killed herself by poison on the New Haven boat c. H. Northam was taken on yes- terday mornings train from this city to New York, The interment will be in Brooklyn
 The deceased was Miss Emma Oswald of Pacific street, Brooklyn, aged thir- ty-eight. She left home Friday, suf- fering from a fit of despondency due to temporary alteration. The news in the press dispatches led her sisters she has three residing in Brooklyn-to suspect that she was the suicide, for when leaving home she said she was going to visit friends in Hartford
 Yesterday morning at o'clock T. G. Hunter of Brooklyn, N. r., called upon Medical Examiner White and gave such an accurate description of the wo- man that Dr. White knew immediately that the identification was obtained. After receiving the verbal description Dr. White admitted Hunter to the mor"ue, and the body was fully iden- tified.
 Mr. Hunter said that he is not a rela- tive of the woman, but came as friend to aTertain if the suspicious of the sisters were correct. Dr. White says that there is nothing in the wo- mans effects to indicate that the cause fof suicide was other than temporary alteration.
 The sisters are all maiden ladies and are not in aff1uent circumstances.
 New York, Aug. 24-The manager of the Spencer Optical company at IS Maiden Lane, when seen this morning, said:
 Emma Oswald has not been in our employ for over year. She was em- ployed in our repair department for about eight months, but commenced to come to the store late, and finally left. l do not know where she lived, but think here home was somewhere in Brooklyn"
 | It has been ascertained that Miss Os- wald began to act strangely ten months | pany's employ On October 31 she | Jay street, Brooklyn Miss Oswald l then lived at 102 Sands street. | On the night of october 2S Miss 1 Oswald called on Mrs. Blackburn and said: You have separated me from
 your niece and now I will kill you. | She drew a revolver on Mrs. Black
 burn and was with great difficulty | overpowered by other inmates of the house who then appeared on the scene | At that time Mrs. Wright was visiting l friends at 13S Manhattan avenue, New l York Brooklyn police were notified and Captain Westervelt of the West l One Hundred street station was noti- l fled of Mrs. Wright's danger and de- ] tailed two detectives to guard her. The next night Miss Oswald attempted to l gain entrance to the house of Mrs. | Wright's friends and was arrested by | the police. and a loaded revolver was l found upon her person. She was lock- | ed up and given into the custody of | the Brooklyn police by Magistrate Du- | ell of the Harlem police court. She
 said to the matron of the police de- partment in charge of her, in speaking
 of the young widow, Mrs. Wright,
 Now she avoids me. I wish to die, but first want to kill her for her cold
 ness, then I will end my own life. This may be madness, but my father died in
 an insane asylum"
 l It was undoubtedly while under a
 cloud of melancholy produced by this strange love affair of 8 diserdered l brain that the unfortunate women end- ed her life.