Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-11-27
MAXWELL < SUICIDE.
Ex- President of Borough Bank
 Cuts Throat In Brooklyn.

0aSo itu O&t u StOSNtyuh ' DESERTED BY HIS FRIENDS. Ruined Banker Faced Disaster, For
 He Had Not Cent Left After Effort
 to Make Restitution to the Directors.
 Borrowed Car Fare.
 New York, Nov. 27.-Howard Max well, deposed and indicted president of the Borough bank, cut his throat and slashed his wrist at his home, 182 Con- gress street, Brooklyn, and died soon afterward in the Long Island college hospital.
 In the bathroom of his home Max we'll used first one razor and then an- other, severing the windpipe, then took a penknife and cut and recut his left wrist, severing the radial artery. At the Long Island college hospital the surgeons operated in vain, and he died SOhoSiouohCoS.
 Deserted by Friends. =
 Maxwell, who was both president Of the bank and of the i'll fated nterna- tional Trust company, was the one man who after the indictment of him. self, William Cow and Arthur D. Campbell found himself deserted utter ly by his old friends. Relatives declar- ed that this desertion was the rankest of ingratitude. Cow himself, they as- sert, had promised to obtain bail for him. He had been told to ease his mind on the score of bail, as 1t would be all right. When the time for arrest came, the bond was not forthcoming Maxwell went to Raymond street jail, and he remained there until late Mon day evening, dazed by the sudden de- velopments in his case. l
 All the while he heard that an effort was being made to saddle everything on him to save Cow and Campbell. It was only little by little that the $30,O00 demanded for his release was obtain ed, his sisters contributing $1O,0O0 of it, Ethan Allen Doty $5.O00, John C.. Breckenridge $5,0O0 and the Illinois Surety company the balance.
 Was Absolutely PenniIess.
 Maxwell in jail faced certain disas- ter, for he had not a cent left. after his effort to make restitution to the di- rectors of the bank. He had not a nickel for car fare when he came out Monday. night, but borrowed one from lawyers clerk. He had not engaged his counsel, and this, it is said, was furnished by Cow. Maxwell went to the fine four story brownstone mansion he had recently owned to find his wife and his crip- pied niece, Dorothy Doolittle, await ing him. The. house was formerly owned by Edward NJ. Shepard and is beautifully furnished. All this furni- ture was soon to go, and Maxwell knew it. There was nothing for him in the future, and his wife had before her the life of boarding house keeper as the only way in which she could live. Mrs. Maxwell was engaged in this occupation when her husband first met her.
 The ruined banker had been appar- ently cheerful, though extremely nerv- ous, from the time he returned home on Monday night after he had been admitted to bail. His wife said he had not threatened to kill himself, but commiserated with her on their mon- eyless condition.
 Complained of Treatment.
 He spoke of the treatment he had re- ceived in comparison with that of Cow and Campbell, with whom he was in- dicted and who were bailed out as soon as they had been arraigned.
 Shortly before cutting his throat Maxwell went to the bathroom ostensi. bly to spruce up."
 He had been there about half an hour when his wife heard him shout "Carrier' The name came in a chok- ing voice, and Mrs. Maxwell, realizing something unusual had happened, ran | to the bathroom.
 When she saw her husband uncon- scious on the floor and covered with blood she ran. screaming hysterically, through the hOus Servants dashed out for physicians, and the neighhsr. hood was excited by the screams of Mrs. Maxwell. A crowd collected about the door. Dr. T. E. Brown of PTS Clinton street hurried to the house, and a policeman followed. The blue coat was thrust out unceremoniously by a manservant. The door was lock. ed and chained against him, and it was opened after that only to admit Dr. Fred Pafford. The physicians called an ambulance. When Maxwell was borne out on a stretcher the am. bulance surgeon without word hand. ed to the patrolman the two razors and the penknife wrapped in paper.
 Maxwell was forty-nine years old and seemed to have the most prosper pus years of his life ahead of him. He started as a clerk in the Kings County bank as a protege of John '. McKane
 Maxwell was under indictment fol forgery and grand larceny.
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