The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-09-26
my HEART is
SORE PkINED"
Bible Verses Of the Fifb-Fifth
Psalm Read by ROxie Ssltz.
THEN SHE COMMITTED SUICIDE
BODY Found Ia a Shallow Pond With a
Note Saylag She Did II Herself, but
Her Parents Have Doubts.
THEN SHE COMMITTED SUICIDE

New York, Sept 26.-"Attend unto me,
and hear me: / mourn In my complaint,
and make a noise.
MY heart Is sore pained within me;
and the terrors OF death are fallen upon
me.
Because OF the voice OF the enemy.
because OF the oppression of the wicked;
for they cast iniquity upon me and in
wrath they hate me.
"Fearfulness and trembling are come
upon me. and horror hath overwhelmed
me.
10. then. would wander far Off.
and remain in the wilderness"
These are the almost prophetic
verses that Roxanna Seit2 read before
going to her sudden and violent death:
In her bedroom her Bible lay, open at
the Fifty-fifth Psalm,
The question whether she committed
suicide or was murdered is agitating the
people Of Hackensack, where she lived.
Miss Seitz was nineteen years old, pretty.
OF cheerful disposition, although relig-
lously bent. SO far as known she was
free from any love ENHANCEMENT
LEFT NOTE TO HER MOTHER.
She left brief. sad note:
Dear Mother: ! did II myself. Roxie."
But her parents r, vow she was ,ssra ncapa. wss
absolutely nothing TO urge her TO SUI.
eide, that all the circumstances about
her death prove she was foully dealt
with.
The unfortunate girls body was
found in two feet of water, in Coney
pond near the end of the Anderson
Early, going TO his work saw a girl 5
hat and a pocke tbook on the path, then
footprints In the mud that lead TO the
pond. There in the shallow water he saw
For Coroner Curry, DR.. Swayze made
a careful examination of the corpse ana
found no mark OF violence rttnn The nots In
diary which Miss Seitz carried In her
pocketbook. The Coroner quickly con-
eladed that the girl had drowned herself.
that there was no reason to hold an ln-
quest. Undertaken Ricardo as promptly
embalmed the body.
But John Seitz. Roxie's father, and all
her relatives positively refuse to believe
she took her life. Miss seitz left A 3.
Howards s notion store In Hackensack.
where she was employed, at 1880 p. m.
on Tuesday. Said her grieving father
yesterday:
SURE THERE HAS BEEN FOUL PLAY
Nothing can convince me that 'Roxie
killed herself. She was a Christian En-
deavorer, a member OF the First Presby-
terian church. and of the Rev. &. X
Kuehler's Bible class. She had no love
affair that her mother knows or ;,, Therc rc
was no reason on earth. no motive, lo
drive her 10 take her life.
why should she walk in the dark, "a
so lonely a spot. then through six feet
OF mud to throw herself in two feet OF
water? To reach Coney's pond she had
crossed the Hackensack river on the
bridge.
The undertaken should not have en-
balmed the body so soon am told the
embalming fluid obscures the traces of
many poisons 'Roxie's' pocketbook was
empty when IL was found We know she
had two or three bank-notes in IL yester-
day. | believe her money was stolen.
"Rumors have reached me that she was
seen walking with a young man In Main
street at half-past 7 o'clock last evening
All these things should be carefully 0
vestigated and I will make every effort
TO prevail on the coroner TO hold an In
quest"
Miss Fanny Brinkerhon. Miss Seitz's
shop mate in Howards store. said.
"Roxie was a changed girl since she
returned from her vacation three weeks
ago Something seemed to prey upor
her mind But ] never saw her II
company with young men. Girls were
her companions. One remark she made
TO me yesterday morning now impresse'
me as very significant She asked m'
most seriously, Do you think IL VII
he dark at Z O'Clock That was th'
hour at which she generally LEFT IN
store"