The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-27
ANOTHER BANK
 HEAD SUICIDES Howard Maxwell, Deposed President of the Bor-
 ough Bank of
 Brooklyn.
COULD NOT STAND
 THE HUMILIATION
Under Indictment for Forgery Act So Soon After 0. T. Barney's Causes a
 Sensation.

New York, Nov. 26.-Howard Max well, deposed president of the Borough Bank of Brooklyn, who was under in- dictment for grand larceny. and forgery and last night was released from jail on sSo,oOO bail, committed suicide to- day. He cut his throat and left wrist with a razor and pen knife, in the bath room at his home in Brooklyn and died tonight at the Long Island College hospital
 Maxwell, who was locked up last Thursday, had felt his humiliation keenly and during his incarceration had appeared hopelessly despondent He had, however, given his family no intimation, so far as is known, that he contemplated killing himself. His wife is prostrated by the tragedy. Maxwell was released late last night from Raymond street jail, where he had been held prisoner since the three indictments charging him with misdeeds in connection with the man aeement of the suspended Borough bank were returned. There was some difficulty in obtaining bail, and officers ! of the jail reported that Maxwell was 4 greatly broken All yesterday and the i day before he lay on his bed and ap- $ peared to be oblivious to surroundings . lie declined to receive any visitors ex- cept his wife and counsel Last night Justice Burr signed an order for Max II wells release when bail to the amount of $3O0OO was furnished by Maxwells s II four unmarried sisters, who offerec their home as security for a S1OeOo II bond; two friends who qualified in $1O,- GOO, and a security company, which gave bond for $10,Ooo. Maxwell in company with his counsel, l. R. Qeland, T after his release was driven to his ras- J &idence, where he was greeted by his wife and seven- year-old niece, Dorothy Doolittle.'
 Maxwell spent this forenoon quietly at his home This afternoon he an nounced his intention of taking a bath and going for a walk Shortly after o'clock Hannah Scott, a colored q maid, heard sound as of someone W failing. Hurrying upstairs she discov- ered the banker lying on the bathroom # Moor half dressed, with gaping wounds in his throat and left wrist. On 9 washstand nearby lay white bone handled razor, half open, and a per knife, with blades open at each end and both covered with blood. A second razor lay half opened in the hallway eading to the bathroom.
 Maxwell was conscious and tried to articulate, but failed to make himself 4 understood. Dr. c. E. Brown, the fam Iy physician, was hastily summoned and he called in Dr. Horace Greeley. : The banker was bleeding so profusely hat 1t was decided 10 remove him to he Long Island College hospital, where an operation for tracheotomy vas performed The windpipe was ound to be nearly severed and the bans left wrist was cut almost to the bone. Maxwell died within a short ime after the operation.
 Soon after the physicians began to york over him the banker had lapsed ato unconsciousness and during the Aw and brief and half-lucid periods hat followed he made no statement SC IT as is known. Coroner Brewer be- an the official investigation tonight
 Maxwell was forty-nine years ole nd leaves a wife, but no children.
 On November 21 he was jointly in. cted for grand larceny with former < ashier Arthur Campbell and Director Villiam Cow of the Borough bank :. shere were other indictments agains'
 i'm involving forgery in a. quarterl, ank statement made to the stat
 anking department. When thes'
 rec men were arraigned, Campbell
 ld Cow secured bondsmen, but, to tn t. Hlrprise of many who knew of Max
 elrs popularity in financial circles ant
 cially. none offered to go upon hi
 nd. For some time only his fou
 sters, who offering the home lef
 em by their mother, who died thre
 ys after the Borough bank sus
 nded. could secure only $1O,O00 bond
 me to his aid This desertion on tn
 Tt of men to whom he looked for hi
 bedom it is said. embittered and de
 essed Maxwell and the despondene.
 creased before his release wa
 ought about.
 During his arraignment Maxwell
 unset stated that his client had pu ! & every dollar in the world he pos
 ysed to secure the bank, and tha
 had absolutely stripped himself t,
 btect the institution. Later, on tn
 ly to his cell, Maxwell is said t,
 ve borrowed $S with which to bu,
 meal or two from a nearby restau
 lt At the time he had declared h not have a cent with which t.
 bvide himself any extras outside tn
 son fare. His humiliation was az
 lvated when. like @ common felon
 was measured by the Bertillon sys
 and his pedigree placed in the jai
 ords
 Taxwell had been regarded as on
 the rising flnanciers of Brooklyn
 home in which he killed himsel