The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-08-17
TIRED OF LIFE.
It Now Transpires That Ly-
dia Jensen's Suicide Was
Premeditated.
MONEY FOR HER FUNERAL
She Saved Thirty Dollars and
Left it in a Note to Her
Mother.

1t is now believed that dependency due
to dissatisfaction over affairs in her fam
lily caused eighteen year old Lydia Jensen,
of No. 1863 Columbia avenue, to commit
suicide. AS stated in yesterdays Jersey
City News the girls body was found
lifeless yesterday morning in a room OF
her home that is seldom used, and near
her was an empty bottle that had con-
tained carbolic acid.
The body had been there since Wednes-
day noon. Miss Jensen had been employ
ed as forewoman in Halls silk mill, at
Irving street and Summit avenue. While
she was popular among her acauaintances
on account of her usually pleasant dispo-
sition, she was high strung and at times
was very reserved. 1t is not known that
she had any love affair. A note written
to her mother was found near the dead
body. 1t read
Dear Mother-In my pocketbook you
will find a few dollars to pay my
funeral expenses. l am tired of living
and want to die.
The note had ben hastily scrawled. In
the pocketbook was found $50.
Remarks let drop some days ago are
now recalled which go toshow that the
girl had meditated the deed for some
time Her sister Mamie asked her if she
was going to attend the Plattdeutsche
Volks Fest at Schuetzen Park next Sun
day. She replied laconically:-
II will be dead by that time
When she appeared at noon Wednes-
day in her best dress, to the surprise
of the other members of the family, she
was asked where she was going.
I'm going crazy" she said
Subsequently she said she was not going
to work that afternoon, but was going
to New York. Those present thought
this queer, as she had worked at Halls
silk mill two years without losing a
day.
purchases. When she returned Lydia was
missing. When she failed to return at
1880 O'Clock that night the mother thought
she had stopped over night with friends
of the family in New York In the morn
ing the mother had. occasion to go up
stairs. The building is a plain and some
what dilapidated structure. The roof
leaks, and this caused the family to aban-
don the upper floor for sleeping purposes.
Only one room was used, and this for
storage. Tt was in this room the body
was found. Mrs. Jensen thought she
smelt carbolic acid, and the smell seemed
to come from this room.
She turned the doorknob and pushed
the door and was surprised to find that
it remained fast. She called her twenty
year-old son Charlie to try and open the
door. 1t was found that it had been
braced by a chair The mother soon
realized what had happened, screamed
and then swooned. The bottle found by
the dead girl bore the label of Druggist
Meyers, of Summit avenue and Irving
street.
The dead girl was one of fourteen
children born to the Jensens. But ten
are now living. Lydia was the oldest
girl. The father, John Jensen, is a
Swede He is metal polisner and up
to two months ago he had been out of
work for year and a half. Four of the
children are at work.
1t is said that Jensen frequently abused
his wife and that this caused i'll feeling
between him and his oldest children. He
said according to neighbors, that he
would not work so long as he had chill
dren to work for him.