New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-16
SCANDAL CAUSES SUICIDE.
Employer of Girl Who Died at Man
haitian Also Killed Himself.

Identification yesterday OF the body of the young
woman who committed suicide at the Hotel Man
haitian Wednesday accompanied by the
declaration that she victim OF newspaper
scandal and that the scandal led to the suicide
Of Boston man last June. The woman was Miss
Ella Berry. daughter Of Lorenzo D. Berry, a car
penter Of West Medford. Mass Before she regis
tered at the hotel under assumed name and
shot herself she sent letter to her father telling
him what she about to do. Mr. Berry came
to the city yesterday with his son Edison, claimed
the body, and took it back to Boston last evening
after telling the story of his daughters trouble
Miss Berry. according to the statements OF her
father and brother. employed last year by
Albert l. Picard, manufacturing electrician in
Boston, stenogra pher. He went West sud
denly and Boston paper published a story that
Miss Berry had eloped with him. at the same time
giving some details of Mr. Picards domestic
troubles Miss Berry was at home with her father
at the time. and they went to the newspaper
Office and gave proof that the story was false The
paper published a retraction, but Miss Berry had
nervous prostration result of the scandal
Mr.. Picard, when he returned to Boston, vas
sent TO an asylum for a time on the complaint OF
his wife that he insane He obtained his re-
lease and disappeared again. He returned Boston
last summer made some effort to obtain recon
Citation with his wife, and finally killed himself
at q Boston hotel on June last. His suicide
called some Of the old scandal and helped to make
Miss Berry more respondent. She seemed to bs
affected by melancholy. and In the hope of di-
verting her. her mother took her to Hampton
Beach. N. H. at the beginning OF this month.
There Miss Berry had the misfortune to meet
daughter Of Mr.. Picard with the result that
memories of the old scandal were revived. Miss
Berry and her mother returned to their home in
West Medford last Tuesday, and the following
day Miss Berry this city. telling her
mother she was merely going to Boston
errand. The next word from her her letter
saying she about end her life.
Mr. Berry declared to Coroner Scholer yesterday
that there never was any foundation for the story
about Miss Berry. He said he she had
been driven to suicide by the scandalous reports.
Boston. Sept 15.-Mr. Picard killed himself at the
Hotel Rexford, this city. June last. Picard
disposed Of his business in May 1904. and went to
Hope. Idaho.
When he left Boston for the West he left behind
a letter the effect that he could no longer live
without Miss Berry. This letter subsequently
gained publication. Later Miss Berry publicly de-
MED that there any truth in the charges limited
at in the letter When Picard returned to the East
he confined in a sanatorium. from which he
was released early in the present year. Again he
disappeared for while. only to return to Boston
in the early summer. for the purpose, ii is alleged,
Of seeking q reconciliation with his wife He lived
at the Hotel Rexford, and one day sent word 10
his wife to meet him there. Mrs. Picard called at
the hotel but declined TO go to her husbands
harm. Next morning the body OF Picard was found
in his