The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-27
MAXWELL ENDS HIS OWN LIFE Cut His Throat With a
 Razor. HUMILIATION WAS TOO GREAT Had Just Been Released From
 Prison on Ball
 - Dead Mas Was the Depo.ed pre.idsrt of Borough Bsnk and Was Under Indictment for Grand
 Larceny.
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New York, Nov. 2s--Howard Max welt deposed president of the Borough Bank of Brooklyn, who was under in dictment for grand larceny and Tor gerry. and who was last night releas- ed from jail on $3o,0oo bail, commit ted suicide today.
 He cut his tbroat and left wrist with razor and penknife in the bathroom of his home in Brooklyn, and died to- night at Long IsIand College hospital. Maxwell, who was locked up last Thursday. had felt his humiliation and during his incarceration had appeared hopeiessly Respondent. He had. how ever. given his family no intimatioh that he contemplated suicide. SO far as is known. His wife was prostrated.
 Maxwell was released late last night from Raymond street jail, where he had been held prisoner since the three indictments charging him with misdoings in connection with the man agement of the suspended Borough bank were returned. There was some difficulty in obtaining ball ard officers of the Jail reported that Maxwell was greatly broken.
 All yesterday and the day before he lay on his bed and appeared to be ob- livtous to surroundings. Last night Justice Burr singned an order for Max wells release when bail to the amount VA voVsvOU was IuTn1SflGU.
 Maxwell, in company with his coun- sel, l. R osfand. was driven to his residence at 1S2 Congers Street. where he was greeted by his wife. Maxwell spent this forenoon quietly at his home. This afternoon he. announced his in- tention of taking q bath and going for 2 walk. Shortly before o'clock. Han nah Scott. a colored maid. heard a sound as If of some one falling from the second floor. She discovered the banker lying on the Bathroom floor. Half dressed, and with gaping wounds in his throat and left wrist. the bank ker was bleeding so profuseIy that 1t was decided to remove him to Long Island College hospital. where an op- eration was performed. The windpipe was found to be nearly severed. and the left wrist wGz cut almost to the bone. Sei N; ss'e '.
 Maxwell died within & short time after the operation. He left no state- nents so far as known. Coroner Brewer began the official investigation tonight. Maxwell was 49 years of age and leaves, wife but no children. On November 2l he was jointly in- dicted for grand larceny with former Cashier Arthur Campbell and Director William Cow of the Borough Bank. There were other indictments against him. involving forgery in a quarterly bank statement made to the State Banking Department. When these three men were arraigned Campbell and Cow secured bondsmen, but none offered to go on Maxweils bond.
 For some time. only his four sisters. who, offering the house left them by their mother. who died three days af- ter the Borough Bank suspended, could secure only $1O.00o bond. came to his aid. This desertion on the part of the men to whom he had looked for his freedom. it is said. enibittered and depressed Maxwell. During his ar- raignment Maxwells counsel stated that his client had put up every dol- lar in the world that he possessed to secure the bank and that he had abe solutely stripped himself to protect the institution. His humiliation was aggravated when. like a common felon. he was measured by the Bertillon sys- tenn and his pedigree placsd in the jail records. ,a 2.
 Maxwell had been regarded as one of the rising financiers of Brooklyn, and was reputed to be worth $20Q.000 when the crash fin banking affairs came.
 Shortly after he became a bank president. Maxwell married. When sle became involved. Mrs. Maxwell signed with him all the release deeds to realty that stood in his name. and his suicide has left her penniless.