The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-15
PROFESSORS WIFE MISSING.
MRS. BREAZEALE PROBABLY
JUMPED OFF SOUND STEAMER.
She LEFT q Letter 10 Her Husband at Rut.
gers College. Saying She would Take
Her Own IIfe-Woman Left the
fremont Leaving Clothes Like Herr.


Her Own Ilfe-woman Left the
fremont Leaving Clothes Like Hers.
New BRUNSWICK. n. j., April IA
despatch received here late this afternoon
from Providence. r. l., telling Of the suicide
Of a woman who was a passenger on the
Joy Line steamer fremont. which left New
York on Monday night for Providence.
confirmed the fear that Mrs. Martha Ham
ilton Breazeale, who disappeared yester-
day. had taken her own life.
Ms. Breazeale ives the wife Of William
Z. Breazeale, associate professor Of mathe-
mates in Rutgers College She left her
home. at i02 Hamilton street. yesterday
morning. As she had been a great sufferer
from nervous trouble and melancholia
forseveral years, the fears OF the household
when she did not return In a few hours.
were that she had wandered on just as she
had done few years ago before while
suffering from similar depression.
The police we're notified to look for her.
and Prof. Breazeale's friends. including
many Of the Rutgers students. started
search.
The first clue to tho womans where
abouts came this morning in letter from
her, directed to Prof Breazeale, postmarked
at New York on Monday night. II was a
pitiful letter. telling how the writer had
Struggled In vain to overcome her do
spondency. There was touching farewell
to her husband. closing with the informa-
ton that ny the time the letter was received
she would be dead.
Prof. Breazeale started for New York
as soon as he received the letter, accom-.
panied by his brother law, Prof. r. W.
Prentiss. He visited various steamboat
Offices. and had them telegraph their New
England ports to see IL his wifes name was
on any OF the passenger lists. Az she had
relatives in Worcester, Mass. he thought
that she might go there and that her people
would intervene before she carried out her
threat At the JOY Line Office Prof Brea-
zeale learned that woman whose descrip-
ton corresponded with that Of his wife had
bought a ticket.
More definite news awaited the professor
when he arrived here this afternoon. A
despatch from Providence was shown TO
him telling how wom n, N who bad bad regis S
jumped from the fremont during the night.
She had been seen on the deck as late as
ESQ.
She was not missed until il was found
early this morning that one OF the women's
was locked. When 1t was opened the stew
ards found a black serge skirt, q black
jacket and a black velvet hat with four
feathers, which corresponded to the cloth
ing worn by Mrs. BreaDeale. The woman
had jumped into the water through the
went overheard at about Bridgeport.
Nothing has been heard OF the body.
Mn. breszeale vas formerly Miss Martha
Hamilton Dodge. She was 2 native OF
Ss at e ::,, .ss xips
the Baltimore schools and later graduated
from the normal school at South Framing
ham, Mass. About ten years ago abe was
married 70 Prof. Breazeale and they came
TO New Brunswick the husband then being
oldest child was born there.
About eight years ago Prof. Breazeale
took chair In the faculty Of Winifred
College for Girls In South Carolina. which
he Allied for six yeaI. Then Mrs. Breaneale
had an attack OF nervous Prostration.
which was the forerunner Of her melan-
cholia. Prof. Breazeale resigned from
Winifred College and took his family
abroad. They spent two years in France
trying to restore Mrs. Breazeale's health
and remained abroad until last September,
when Prof. Breazeale brought his family
here.
Mrr. Breazeale leaves four children rang
ing from to years in age. She was 80
years old.
President Dunbar OF the Joy steamboat
line received long distance telephone
message from Providence yesterday after
noon telling him that woman registered
on the passenger list as Mrs. Brown"
could not he accounted for when the steamer
fremont. which left here late Monday after
noon, arrived there yesterday morning.
According TO Mr.. Dunbars Information
the woman did not engage stateroom
and was assigned TO a berth in the women's
cabin. Yesterday morning when the boat
was OF Newport II was discovered that the
berth had not been occupied and when a
search was made several articles Of wearing
apparel were found in a toilet room, the
door Of which had been locked and the
window opened. Nobody had seen the
woman on the boat after 0 o'clock in the
evening.
Tho JOY Line people telegraphed Prof.
Breazeale last night telling him that when
the fremont arrived here this morning
moro facts would be learned The ticket
agent did not recall Mrs. Brown" yester-
day.