The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-04-14
Young Wife, Apparently Happy,
Broods Over Approaching Or
deal and Kills Herself.
USES A RAZOR AND GAS
Leaves a Pitiful Little Note to Her
Devoted Husband-Feared Her
Child Would Be Demented
She Couldn't Sleep.

Philadelphia, April 13.-1t was an a1ect-
ing scene when the Coroner began his in
Vesdgation into the causes that led pretty
Jennie Dare to end her life in her home at
No SlA Rosewood street Tuesday.
The young husband. Albert {. Dare, pale
and dazed. his face showing traces of the
suffering Of the night. came into court and
sat wide-eyed and motionless while tho jury
was impaneled and while the Coroner's ply
stefan. Doctor Morton. testified that she
had come to her death by as%phyxiation and
a wound self-infiicted.
Calmly he went upon the stand and testi-
fled TO finding the body at s o'clock when
he came home from his work at the Penn
sylvania offices. But when the Coroner
handed him a crumpled piece of note-paper
whereon she had written her last message
to him he broke down and wept.
This was the message:
My Dear Beloved Husband: Forgive me
for what 1 have done. but, as you know. I
have not slept for a month or more. think
ing / was going insane. l would rather die
than bring a child into this world with a
demented mother. Now. Bert. forgive end
forget me. as you have done all you could
for me and my dear father and mother. sis
ter and brother. Good-by. Your loving
wife, JENNIE DARE.
In the left-hand bureau drawer you will
find bank book and sSS.43 in cash."
He was so overcome that he could not
testify further. but it was enough. The
jury soon returned a verdict Of suicide while
temporarily insane.
sba and Wife Loved DevOtedly.
Mrs. Dare was Jennie Snyder OF this city.
Her father and mother are living here now.
Six years ago she married. Her home life
was most happy. She and her husband
were spoken Of as just like two young
sweethearts by all their friends. So far as
her friends saw. She had never a care in
the world.
Why said her husbands sister. Mrs.
Blair, who lives at No. 3120 Rosewood
the happiest woman in the world. 1 know
she loved her husband. and l know he
loved her devotedly: During the six years
OF their married life l do not believe a
cross word passed between them
We all knew, OF course, that consump-
ton carried of her three sisters. and We
often heard Jennie say:
that way some day But we did not pay
any particular attention to her remark and
would laugh when she mentioned 1t. She
was SO healthy and strong.
Could Not Sleep Nights.
1T was a month ago perhaps when some
OF us began to notice that Jennie was not
i asI first so pla eeee she sa ds sine Sne c naH n net s,ee In
nights, and her husband used to tell US Of
her rolling and tossing through the night.
Then she mentioned the pains in her head
ana became very nervous over her impend-
Ing ordeal. I don't believe she ever said
anything about this to her husband, but a
PHYSICIAN e. was called IN. and he examined
the serious effect OF insomnia on q woman
as nervous and high-strung as Jennie was,
and. any way. he did nothing that would
benefit her.
II advised her to AXE stimulants at night.
but she refused But she always laughed SO
10 lAuRn. 100 ShQ 0nt fn reading suicide
notices in the newspapers to us. and spoke
of them always as such great fools that
we never even thought OF her doing such a
thing;
that she suffered when she was alone in her
house. We would have been with her all
nephew was company enough for her.
Sister Became Alarmed.
She was happy and cheerful as she could |
little boy over to my house. saying he was
to remain with me while she went down. |
town. OF course. I took him in and he
when she did not return. 1 began to wor-
~. and looked out for Albert when he was |
coming min home: HE He ca 11ng; about sa,I $ o's se o and
early and not returning
".'Oh. maybe she has slipped by the house
telling you,' he said"
words. but he had no fear. because his wife
had been in such good spirits when she |
kissed him good-by that morning. He /
opened the door with his latchkey and |
as he always did. as a signal Of
his arrival.
No Answering Call.
To his surprise there came neither an
swering call nor the sound Of rushing foot
Then he became worried.
'.Jennie!' he cried. Jennie, where are
You CAM hide from me-"
But still there was silenc Then for the
first time there came to him the faint.
penetrating odor of gas. and he whiteled
sudden fear. Quickly as he could he
rushed up the stairs to her bedroom.
The door was open and the room vacant.
But from under the bathroom door near
came a stronger odor OF gas. He tried
that door, but 1t was locked
"Jennie!" he shouted: Jennie. where
are you? Answer mel"
There was only the echo of his own
voice. and throwing his weight against
the wooden panels he forced the lock and
looked.
Found wife's Dead Body.
His wife's body lay upon the bathroom
door. dressed as he had left her. in her
wrapper. her throat cut from ear
10 ear. and between her teeth the end of
rubber tube, which had been attached
70 a gas burner. BY her side lay his ra-
opened and bloodstained. She had
,een dead for hours.
Soon after she had sent the little bow +
way her mind had given way under the
ripple strain imposed on it, and she had
nnGad n oil