The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-12

~ overwork, Miss Sarah Chamber
lain Weed. of Philadelphia shot
and killed Miss Elizabeth Bailey
Hardee, OF No 214 East Gwinnett Street,
Savannah. Ga. and then committed
suicide at the Laurens School for Girls
to-day. The Laurens School was es-
tablished last fall by Miss Hardee and
Miss Weed. On october 1st. tho day the
school opened, Miss Weed broke down
as q result of overwork, and was COM
mitted to a sanitarium in order to be
treated for nervous prostration.
Last night Miss Weed escaped from
the sanitarium and made her way to
the school. She appeared to be badly
deranged mentally. A fruitless at
tempt was made to communicate with
the authorities OF the sanitarum, and
at length Miss Hardee succeeded In
getting Miss Weed to go to bed in
Miss Hardee's chamber on the third
floor of the school building. Miss Har-
dee retired with Miss Weed.
Both women wre awakened by Mrs.
Page about A. NJ, and notified that
they must get up IL they were to
catch the 1885 train, on which Miss
Weed was to be taken back to West
Newton. Mrs. rage then LETT them.
and few moments later the shooting
occurred. Mrs. Page thinks the men,
ton of returning to the santarium
must have excited anu angered Miss
Weed and induced the shooting.
From the nature of the wounds
Medical Examiner Stedman decided
that Miss Weed had committed suicide
by shooting herself through the right
temple. after having shot Miss Hardee
through the base of the brain.
Friends ut WellesIy.
Both women were about thirty-two
years of age, and they had been inti-
mate friends since their graduation
from Wellesly College. Miss Hardee
receiving her diploma in 1884, while
3. Miss Weed received hers a year later.
Miss Hardee was an Instructor in
mathematics at Wellesly in 1899 and
! 1900, and since that time had been
teaching In Vermont. Miss Weed had
/ also been teaching in various sec
tions Of the country. Last summer
| the two women decided to open a
| boarding school for girls on Audubon
| Road in the F'enway district On Octo-
! ber 1st, the day upon which the Laurens
! School, as they called it, was opened.
Miss Weed broke down as a result of
| overwork, and was taken to the sani-
| tarium in West Newton. where she had
since been under treatment. While at
i the santarium Miss Weed had been
| subject to severe attacks of melan-
| cholia.
Escaping last night she made her
way to Laurens School, where Miss
Hardee volunteered to care for her
during the night.
Miss Weed behaved In peculiar
manner. according to the teachers.
wandering aimlessly about the school
building. and occasionally making some
| strange or incoherent remark.
At length Miss Hardee persuaded
Miss Weed to retire. and the demented
woman followed her to her own cham
/; Der on the third floor of the school.
| The pupils at the school. about forty
in number. are the daughters Of
wealthy parents from all sections of
the country.
| Two Accomplished Women.
| Miss Hardee, in addition to her
school work, had taken a great In
terest In settlement work In this city,
especially among the Italians in the
north end. During her college career
she was prominent In many branches
and extremely popular.
| Miss Weeds work since leaving COL
/ lege had been confined almost entirely
to teaching. While In the sanatorium
at West Newton. she was frequently
subject to extreme paroXysms of weep
ing, but never appeared to bear any
animosity against any of her friends.
Mother Too Ill to be Told
f, PHILADELPHIA. LAD; Pa, March H.
Miss Sarah Chamberlain '' Weed. ,ei"'I lives es
at 11O West Willow Grove Avenue,
| Chestnut Hill. a fashionable suburb
! of Philadelphia, with a daughter and
l.. w. Taylor, an uncle Of the dead wo-
tragsav The family nn,i shdv ala not lSnow Of the
Press dispatch from Boston, and 1t was
decided not to inform. the mother,
who Is widow and is i'll in bed,
until official confirmation shall have
been received from sister OF the
dead woman; who is librarian at
The sad Intelligence was first i'm
parted to Miss Harriet NJ Weed, an
other sister, living with the mother,
This I sister sister Sald So the family knew that
not believe her condition was as Sc
rious as 1t must have been for her
to commit such a deed.
tied the mother, accompanied by Miss
Hardee. Miss Sarah received her ear
| ly education in Boston.
Daughter of nm Attorney.
SAVANNAH, GA, March 11.--Mlss
! Hardee, who was killed at Boston to-
day was a daughter of William p
/ !Hardee, an attorney OF this city. Her
brother, Cosnlo Hardee. left for Bos-
ton to-day.
iS Miss Weed had visited Savannah and
( was known to almost all of Miss Har.
| dee's friends
JURY FOR HITCHCOCK TRIAL
IS NOT YET COMPLETE
NEW YORK. March 1.-THE trial of