New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-09-11
BODY FOUND BY DOGS
Family Scout Suicide Theory
Think She Fell While Wading.

Short Hills. ". J.. Sept 10 (Specsa1-Mrs Annis
Harvey. wife Of Ashton Harvey. a New York
lawyer. who lives in suburban home the Tay-
Tor Road. Short Hills. either accidentally with
suicidal intent fell into North Pond. her home
last night. and her dead body found this morn
ing. Her family scout the suicide theory They
declare that she had been the habit Of wa6fns
in water part of a course OF treatment pre-
scribed for her health, and have fallen Wills
doing.
Yesterday afternoon Mrs Harvey ordered lar
carriage and told her two children. Harold and
Dorothy, to be ready for drive 20 the home OF
Mrs Alphonse Du Barry at Beilevood, in Mad
ison. the former home Of H Mex Twomoly. After
ordering the carriage Mrs. Harvey went to the
garden. where the servants saw her walking When
she did not return to the house the children
thought she had changed her mind about driving
and had gone IN friends automobile.
Mr.. Harvey returned from the city at o'clock.
but the children said nothing to him OF Mrs Har-
vey not keeping her original plan. and II was not
until dinner time that any mention was made OK
her absence Then the family teIephcned 70 Mrs
Dul Barry and found that Mrs. Harvey had not been
there.
Mr.. Harvey thought his wife might have met
with foul play She wore jewelry worth over sssoe
when she left the house. Including pearl Necklaces
diamond brooch and several diamond rings The
police were informed, searching parties we're or
ganzed, and the fremen were called out Al
O'Clock this morning Joseph P. Day OF Snort HIS
offered the Of his two bloodhounds They en-
clSd their way TO North Eonds ABOUT toN1 hN~-0--
yards from the Harvey home. on the estaes OF
Stewart Hartshorne-
They marked the trail three times. bur, al
though the shores Of the pond were searched thor
oughly no trace of the missing woman was found
In the mean time Mr. Harvey and his children
were searching in an automobile, but they had met
only with discouragernent from the time they
started out at go o'clock until s O'Clock Inen
they learned that Frank Doyle and Patroiulan Petes
Flanagan had discovered the body
The water is very clear. and although the pcho
has a depth OF Is TO - feet. objects are easi1
discernibIe in IL When il became daylight the Two
who had the manner in which the oiooonooh1H
had circled about the place, went out IN noaI
and they found the body on the bottom OF Ins
pond about twenty-five feet from the snore-
The Jew elry intact, and Mrs Harvey Nslon
had stopped at SO O'Clock. which probably n1ss
the time at which she died The theory OF suciue
is supported by the fact that Mrs Harvey suffered
greatly from hay fever. and had been maze very
n,orose by it, Yesterday she also complained OF
headache She was also affected by neianchotA.
and during the periods when she became merosa
she ri.ved over the death OF her son Ashton Wnlca
occurred seven years ago Yesterday was tns Az
uiversary of the sons death
She might possibly have been drowned accloen-
taTlv however, because the ground slepec de"n
s,,15erI, from, a bank about three feet high. ane
sbA NAV have fallen in IL she leaned over 70 Ves
her handkerchief with which 70 oatne hen hs1-
The handkerchief was found In the water