New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-11
GIRL, ONCE RICH, SUICIDE
LENT ALL TO REL4TIFE.
Stenographer Had Been Criticised
for Not Dressing Veil.

Ees-tbrokeu ccause she could not dress as
We! as the other piers. and because she
had been reduced from good to much poorer
circumstance. Miss Charlotte II Thomas. TWEEN
ty-dve years Dad. an attractive young woman,
employed by a. Anargyros & Co. IN the Con
stable building. a. III Fifth-ave. committed
suicide yesterday i'm TIE hallwav leading 70 the
Offices. hy drinking carbolic acid. The young
woman vas hghstruns and proud. but did not
sco-u her work. and, according 70 the girls
mother. the Indifferent way in which she was
treated by her associates practically broke her
heart She came from good family. her father
at ore time having We. it,. Judge Kellogg
formerly Of the Court Of Claims at Albany, was
her guardian, and a brother is employed in the
Attorney Genera-s Office Albany.
The young woman lived with her mother at
Sc East One-hundred-and-eig htieth-st. in a
small fat she had been employed only few
months with \. Anargyros & Co. manufactur-
e-s q Turkish cigarettes. This employment was
made necessary through the reduced circunl-
stances i1to which the family had been thrown.
What money the girl had left 10 her. IT Is under
stood. was also LENT by her TO a relative who
has never made return for il. The girl was
found lying on the floor and two-ounce bottle
which had contained carbolic acid was lying
empty by her side She was rapidly losing con-
sciouz-ezs but she whispered TO gin friend:
You don't know all my troubles"
she vas carried into the ofice where she
worked and :. Kelly the manager living At
100 West Forty-ninth-st-. sent in a call 20 the
Ner-yo-k Hospital for an ambulance DR.. Reid
responded he worked over the gil for half
an hour. bat she died without regaining con-
/ scfc-s-ess-
The vo:lnF woman. who had heard the last
words Of the girl went at once 10 The Bronx
TO tel the dead girls mother Mrs. Thomas
vas tod that her daughter was III and came
down town with the young women TO the Con-
stable Building. when Mrs Thomas entered
the Office OF A Anargyros & Co. and was told
that her daughter was not only dead, but
suicide she collapsed and it was some time
before she was revived When she became con-
scious she was highly hystericaI. and noaned
and screamed for her daughter. She repeated
over and over again:
He is TO blame for this. He is to blame for
this"
Suspicious were directed in a wrong channel
By this repeated statement and Mrs. Thomas
was questioned She however, only told Of
how the little money that was left her dead
daughter had beer lent % a relative and had
never beer returned. forcing the girl. against
her best incIinations, 10 work for her living.
The mother. between lapses Of hysteris. told the
following story:
clnstances We were very well 10 DO at one time.
Lcttie was cheated out Of The money that was left
% her i was lent 70 William she never got
Il back. He had her learn stenography and Sc
cured this position Tor her. To think the girl.
whose guardian Wa Judge kellogg should have
work here after having everything
When LcIrle started 70 work We were in reduced
Circumstance she had 10 work, and found things
very d.sagreeab-e. she rad never worked before,
As we were poor then she could not dresse as well
as the other girls and was consequently made very
little Of Some time asO one OF the men IN the
Once made remark about her appearance that
almost broke her heart For days and days she
cried as Il her heart would break. and said:
IF ! were c7Iv like other girls and did not
have 10 work fCr living. but Just make pin
ta.rgs would different As il Is. they make little
Of ne as I DO rot stylish clothes
L.0rCie proud and high strung and, while
she did at any time object TO working 10 help
me. I believe that her heart really broken. and
il was through that and nothing else. that she
ci6 this.
At this juncturc III. Kelly came to her and
said
Why the man who made that remark was
discharged long ago
I know il. [ know il, the roths- replied.
That does not help Us now"
The mother y talking further about her
daughter. said that she well educated, but
proud and high strung. She had never threat
ened suicide, she said. and had been preparing
with great interest 10 take part in q fair 10 be
given by St Marks Protestant Episcopal
Church. ia The Bronx. The girl the mother
said. had never been i'll IN bed in her life, but
had nervous prostration in q mild form twice.