Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-01-11
A MYSTERY.
Strange Death of Edna Bar.
rows at Boston.
Al Autopsy, Friday, May Determine
Cause--Belonged in Maine.
Was Popular and Had Worked as
Waitress in Boston.

Boston, Jan. I0.-The sudden death
Of Miss Edna Marcia BarroWs. Il pretty
| waitress. "A years old, which occurred
I yesterday morning. at - Dwight
street. furnishes something of Il mvs
terry for the polir" Of division :.
! When they We're informed Of III,
! death Of the young woman they an.
nounced that she had committed sn,.
eide by drinking poison. ana that d-s
pOndency because She was out Of v-nrL
| WAS the motive.
Tn" lan,!lady at - Dwight street
| Mrs. Moore, said To a Globe reportar
that she doubted the suicide theory
She said that while Miss Barrows was
technically out of work she had haan
sought by her former employer to re-
| turn. and had declined because She had
secured another position. and woulds
probably have gone TO work, Monday.
The young woman," said Mrs.
Moore. had really no reason ITO kill
herself. She had been i'll with heart
trouble. and was sick for two DAYS
this week. She left her position. but
was getting ready to go out, this morn
she became i'll and died soon after
ward. Considering all the crcum-
stances. | should say that heart dis
ease was more likely to be the cause
OF death. was in the room with her
until she died. ! looked all around for
some evidence of poison. but found
nothing ut all of the kind"
Miss B:rrows had lived at the house
- Dwight street for the past six
month. About three years ago she
ilVed there for Il while. but left ana
went to another lodging house. she
worked steadily
Mrs. Moore said. yesterday. that. 50
far as she knew, the young woman was
industrious. capable. well-behavod
she mad 4 room on the top floor"
said Mrs. Moore. and about s this
morning. l was going upstairs to make
some OF tho beds on that floor when
heard gasping noise coming from
Miss Burrows room. ! Went 10 rhe
door and found it unlocked. Miss Par
rows WAS lying on the floor. She had
her shoes ana stockings on. and = XII
mono on over her underclothes. She
had apparently just come from the
bathroom.
She was ut the side of the bed. Size
dld not speak when | entered the room
but continued gasping. | gave the
alarm and sent for the physician Al
Ter Il while one responded. but he
could do nothing for the young woman
and she died
she has not been well for the past
few weeks, and may have taken some
thinG to relieve her suffering. She has
bten somewhat restless at night l:ut
] am sure that whatever it was, she
did not take her own life Intentionally
she left her position on Saturday.
last, because she WAS not feeling Well
On Tuesday, somebody from the res
taurant where she was employed cam"
to the house and asked her To return
to work. But she would not go. She
had the promise of Il position ut anoth-
er restaurant on Washington street
near Dover.
Friday. she spent most of the day
in the laundry getting her clothing
ready to go TO work. and Friday even
ms. she went with Il young woman
friend to the theatre"
Medical Examiner Draper visited thc
house at II o'clock ana viewed the
body. He told a Globe reporter that III
found no outward indications that Miss
Earrows had poisoned herself or any
thing to show what the cause of death
was. He had. therefore. decided tn
perform an autopsy. which will he
made ut the city hospital morguc
r1ornl ng.
AT the restaurant where she was en-
ployed it was said that Miss Earrows
voluntarily left her position thcr" be-
cause she did not think she received
SUFFICIENT wages. She was paid $50
and wanted 81 per week. After She left
nm effort was made. il was said. 20 grt
her to return, but she declined. 81"
was called q good waitress
Miss BarrowS came to Boston from
Highland. Me. Her grandmother lives
there now. Her parents are both dead
and she has no brothers or sisters. An
aunt. Mrs. EliZabcih D. Lincoln. IN"
police say, lives ut 1863 ST. Botolph
street.
A glas preserve jar was found in
Miss Barrow's room after her death
by Mrs. Moore. She gave it to DR..
Draper. The jar contained some white
crystals which DIR. Draper said were
not of 4 poisonous nature.