The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-03
FINAAcIER ENDS HIS LIFE
Former President Of Borough Bank
Dies by Own Hand in Brooklyn.
Cut His Throat With Razor in Man.
sion He Had Lost-Deserted
by His Allies.

Brooklyn, n Y-Broken in spirit
by the loss of his fortune, obtained
by the use of the money of the depos-
itors of the Borough Bank; humil.
lated by his incarceration in Ray
mond Street Jail and convinced that
the men with whom he had dealt in
his high finance" operations had left
him to his fate, Howard Maxwell. for
mer president of the Borough Bank,
stood before mirror in his home, at
No. 1S2 Congress street, Brooklyn,
cut his throat and slashed his left
wrist. He used two razors and a pen
knife.
AS he sank to the floor of the bath
room he screamed his wife's name.
That was the last word he uttered,
his windpipe having been severed by
the two razor strokes. One sweep,
was from left to right. the other from
right to left. Mrs. Maxwell ran to,
the bathroom and found her husband
unconscious. Two doctors in the.
neighborhood were brought quickly.
to the house, and they stitched the.
windpipe and the radial artery in the
left wrist. The operation of tracheo-
tony was performed soon afterward
In the Long Island College Hospital.
but Maxwell died on the, operating. ta-
BILE.
The ruined banker had been appar.
emily cheerful, though extremely ner-
vous from the time he returned on.
Monday night after he had been adj
mitted to bail. His wife said he had
not thrn0fnnnd fn III
commiserated with her on their mon
eyless condition.
He spoke of the treatment he, had
received in comparison with that Of
Cow and Campbell with whom he
was indicted and who were bailed ont.
as soon as they had been arraigned.
When MAXWELL was dying another
chapter in the Brooklyn bank scandal
was being written in the County
Court, where John G.. Jenkins, Jr,..
former president of the Jenkins Trust
Company; his brother Frank, who,
had been president of the Williams
burg Trust Company, and. his brother
Frederick, until recently director
in the jenkins Trust, were being arr
raigned on joint indictment charg-
ing them with forgery in the third
degree. They were held in $10,O
bail each.
John G. Jenkins, Jr., was smuggied
away by his counsel before the detec-
tives could reach him to carry him
off to headquarters for the taking OF
his picture and measurements for
the Bertillon record. He remained in
hiding and baked the police success
fully. When Frank was arraigned
two hours afterward and bailed the
detectives took him by.force, and one
of the most remarkable scenes,
amounting almost to a riot. took
place in the street.
Depositors clamored for the life Of
the banker. They spat upon and
jeered him. One man struck him a.
stunning blow in the face, the police
making no attempt to arrest any of
the assailants
Meantime two detectives went to
the home of Frederick Jenkins and,
ignoring his plea of Illness, forced
him to choose between being dragged
out of the house in pajamas and go
ing forth fully attired for the street.
He chose to dress and accompany the
detectives without further protest.
They took him to Police Headquar-
tiers and, in spite of his protest,
"mugged and measured" him.
He was being led to court when he
and his captors met the struggling
crowd about Frank. The, brothers
looked at each other without giving
a. sign Of recognition Frederick was
arraigned and bailed without further
trouble.