The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-08-26
Mrs. Maddy Commits Suicide
by Taking Dose Of Morphine.
MADE FORTUNE AT GOLD FIELDS
Started 10 a Quiet Way and Put SaVIngs
fTsm Boarding House Into MIrIag Prop
st Speculation Caused Loss.

Cripple Creek. Col. Aug 2s-Mrs. lat
tie Wright Maddy. "the Hetty Green OF
Cripple Creek" is dead from the effects
OF twenty grains Of morphine. self-admin-
istered. with the purpose of suicide.
With Hattie Wright Maddy passes
away one OF the most picturesque and
remarkable characters which the camp
has ever known.
She uump to Cripple Creek unmarried
in the early days OF the gold excitement
and though alone. poor and uneducated
soon grew TO be power in the mining
world OF the new camp.
She had the keen Insight OF naturally
speculative mind, and saw that many val
liable claims were being held by men who
had not the money TO patent them. she
had no money, but she had brains, energy
and perseverance,
Al the corner OF what is now Masonic
avenue she opened boarding and lodg-
ing house, which she kept on the same
business-hke. methodical plans she after-
ward used In conducting her larger busi-
ness. Her rooms We're clean, her beds
comfortable. and her meals good, ana
money soon began TO fow into her treas
ury.
into mining property: she bought up and
patented a number OF mines, at one time
holding a controlling interest in between
thirty and forty properties.
SOME OF MRS MADDYS MINES.
Among these are the Robert l., tho
Horace Clark Three Claims. on the Dem
yer mines; the Jake Turner. the Scrap.
on Copper mountain. and number OF
claims on Signal hill.
The great fire OF 1896 destroyed the
boarding house. and as there was no IN
surance upon II she suffered the loss or
all her furniture and household effects.
But nothing daunted. she bent her great
energies 10 other labors. and In 1897 or
ganized tho Columbus Jewel Gold Mining
-. .l.l. -. L. aku
holder.
For some years she had been on terms
Of warm friendship with John b. Maddy.
and eleven months ago was married 10
him. she then being fifty-three while he
was 1fty-eight years OF age Mr. Maddy
Is also interested IN mining spsculations,
and their union appears 10 have been the
result of business connections as well as
Mr.. Maddy paid his wife a certain
amount monthly for running the house
and attending 10 his domestic comforts,
for every cent OF which she accounted
at their monthly settlements OF late
Mrs. Maddy has appeared nervous ar
excited on several different occasions,
watching the markets with breathless In
terest and suspense.
ATTENDED TO BUSINESS FIRST.
On the day before her death Mrs.
Maddy seemed In her usual health and
spirits. and went out TO attend TO some
business affairs in the afternoon. She
called upon her lawyer and visited a
dry goods store or two. When she re-
turned she said that she was tired. would
lie down for whtte' and did not wish
10 be disturbed.
When Mr.. Maddy came in she called
20 him 10 sit beside her on the edge OF
the bed and told him that he had always
been kind and considerate 10 her and that
she wanted TO thank him for Il. She then
asked him II he had a key TO the safety
deposit vault telling him that she had
given authority there that he should be
allowed TO go 10 1t in case OF her in
ability or death.
Mr. Maddy in great surprise asked her
II she felt i'll. at which she smiled in a
peculiar manner. and answered: "No.
not sick: only tired, so tired
Later he found a small bottle marked
morphine" under her pillow and the
woman who lived in the back OF the house
told him that she thought Mrs. Maddy
had taken poison. Two physicians were
summoned, but too late. She was al
ready unconscious
"1Ts NO USE" SAID THE WOMAN.
A gaivanc battery was applied. and
under its influence she revived and sat
up in bed. She looked about her. and
seeing the doctors. said:
TITS no use: you cannot save me- /
took II on purpose and enough to make
sure"
Soon after she became unconscious. and
passed away without speaking again,
In the present unsettled condition OF
affairs IL was impossible TO ascertain
even an approximate idea OF the wealth
OF this remarkable woman. That she
had had many losses OF late her friends
are positive. and the opinion seems prev
alent among brokers that disastrous
losses In speculation were the direct
cause OF her suicide.