Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-27
BANKER SELF-S[A1h
Howard Maxwell Kills Himself
With Knife and Razor.
CHARGED WITH FORGERY
Was Deposed President Of Brooklyn
Borough Bank.
TRAGEDY RESULT OF SHAME
Goes to Bathroom and Slashed Him
self-Dies in Hospital Of Loss.
Of Blood and Shock.
RESULT OF SHAME

NEW YORK. November 27.-H0 ward
Maxwell. the deposed president Of the
Brooklyn Borough Bank. who faced twen-
ty-flve years In prison If convicted on the
three charges Of forgery and grand lar
ceny brought against him by the Kings
county grand Jury and who had spent four
days In the Raymond street jail in default
Of bail, cut his throat and several the
main artery in his left wrist at his home,
lS2 Congress street. Brooklyn. yesterday
afternoon and died in the Long Island
College Hospital at 5:45 o'clock.
Maxwell used a two-biaded penknife and
two razors to slash himself. He jabbed
himself deeply IN the right side of the
neck with the penknife. then cut his left
wrist through tendons to the bone. When
he was discovered and removed to the
hospital at Henry and Pacific streets he
was SO weakened by loss of hood that, al
though operated upon. he could not rally.
1t was at o'clock Monday night that
the former president of the Borough Bank
and president of the International Trust
Company appeared with his attorney,
Isaac r. Oeiand of GO Wall street. before
Supreme Court Justice Burr, after having
spent the days since Thursday in a eel
at the Raymond street jail There his
bail of $4,000 was accepted. The pris-
Oner'S four sisters went on one bond Of
$4,000. Ethan Allen Doty and John c.
Breckenridge furnished security for 5000
each and the Illinois Security Company
covered the balance.
Seemed In Good Spirits.
Maxwell left the court with his attorney
and took dinner with him In a downtown
restaurant. Mr.. Oeland said yesterday
that Maxwell seemed In good spirits and
all traces Of the depression he had >suf-
fered during the days of his Incarceration
seemed to have passed. After dining with
Oeland Maxwell went to his home alone.
Maxwell was Late in rising yesterday.
No one in the house disturbed him. Mrs
Maxwell has been Ill for several weeks
and under the care of a trained nurse.
Besides this nurse and her son. young
man. there were two servants in the
house.
1t was a few minutes after 1 o'clock
haitian called Maxwell to the telephone
and asked him IL ne was badly OF for
lack Of money. Maxwell replied that
he was In need of immediate cash and
the friend at the other end Of the line
offered to make him a temporary "a,
gladly. Then the telephone converse
ton ended with Maxwell's promise to
meet his friend in Manhattan at 4
o'clock. He went Immediately to his
wife to report the arrangement he had
made for securing temporary relief and
ne seemed much relieved.
Found Dying.
+ A few minutes before o'clock Annie
Scott, a colored maid. heard a strange
noise Of coughing in the bathroom on
the second floor, Off Maxwelrs bedroom
AS she started to open the door she saw
1 bloody razor lying on the floor Of the
carpeted hall just few Inches outside
Of the doorsill. The woman pushed open
the bathroom door. She saw Maxwell.
clad only in his undercfothes. half SIT
ting. half reclining on a chair near the
bath tub Blood was running from his
neck and from his left wrist, which
hung Imply over the edge Of the tub
There were stains all about the room.
The servant screamed and the trained
nurse and her son hurried to the bath
room. Seeing the plight Of the man the
nurse sent the maid and Rudolph Reed
a negro butler. hurrying down the street
for doctors. DIR. T. E Brown of 27S
Clinton street w.s the first to reach the
house. He found Maxwell still sitting in
the chair and conscious. On the right
side of his neck there was sharp, clean
cut wound extend ng about two inches
across the throat and deep into the
muscles OF the thofaK. The -tugular vein
was not cut. There was a deep wound
On the left wrist running well up under
the thumb and 50 deep as to sever all the
tendOns and expose the bone. The hemor-
rhage from both wounds was not great,
blood clots having formed over each cut
When DR.. Frederick Paffard. who lives
at Clinton and Amity streets, arrived the
two physicians bound up the severed
radial artery In the arm and sent in q
call for the Long Island College HOSPITAL
ambulance. Maxwell by this time had
lapsed into INCONSISTENCIES without say
ing word.