The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1909-05-10
OF
AGNES SCOTT.
GIRL SUICIDE
Her Lonely Condition Is
Supposed to Be Cause Of
Her Desperate Act.
She Was But Eighteen
Years Old, Her Mother
Was Dead, and She Had
Been Unable to Do the
Work in Her Uncle IS
Home.

The remains Of pretty Agnes Scott,
who committed suicide by drinking z
ounces of carbolic acid, at the resi-
avenue, Saturday afternoon were ia
ken from the hospital to Rourke &
Rourke's' morgue. This morning the
body was removed to the Nelson home,
where the funeral took place at 2:30
The causes which led up to the des-
perate act of the girl remain a mys-
terry. The report that the girl took her
life through dependency because she
was prevented from receiving the at
tentions of a young man in whom she
was interested, is denied by Mrs. Mel
son, with whom the girl boarded, and
also by the uncle of the girl John Dun
can who lives at 1044, across the street.
Mrs Scott and her two daught ers,
Agnes and Annie, formerly lived in
this city. Over year ago they went
to New York, but returned to the city
about months ago, when the mother
kept house for her brother John Dun
can. Mrs. Scott died at the Duncan
home several months ago.
Agnes attempted to carry out her
mothers work and take care of her
uncle's family. The work was too
The girl called on Mrs. Nelson, who
was an old friend of her mothers ask
ed for board. Agnes was Is in April.
Annie, the youngest of the family is
a. 1t is several weeks since the girls
left their unc1e's house to live with
Mrs. Nelson. 1t is said that Mr.. Dun
can did not wish to have the girls in
his house.
Last Thursday Agnes told Mrs. Nell
son that she had sore on her knee
and that she thought she would battle
it with carbolic acid. Mrs. Nelson
told the girl that the sore did not am
cunt to anything and would be well in
a few days. Agnes, however, sent her
sister to Swinnerton'S. drug store and
bought two ounces. This was the bot
tie the girl drained with fatal results
Mr.. Duncan, when interviewed by a
Farmer representative, said that he
could assign no. reason TOR the rash
act of the girl She was Sne of the
merriest children he had ever seen and
never had a care. On the
day before her desperate act the girl
had dropped in to see him and had
sat on the table talking with him in
the merriest of moods. She never had
received attentions from any young
man that he knew of. She was too
JULY and heart free to fix her affec-
lions on any one. He denied that there
had been any trouble between them or
that he had turned the girls out of
his house When her mother died, he
as the nearest relative, had offered the
girls home. He has a large family and
the girls cOulu nOl uO l1tC w VI n OI lLO
The girls have one brother, William
Scott living in New York. He is mar
ried and his wife came to the city this
and took charge of the re-
mains. The brother will bear the ex-
pense of the funeral.
Mrs Nelson, with whom Agnes and
her sister made their home, is employ
ed at the Crawford Laundry, Fairfield
avenue and CORTLAND street. She OBJ
tanned a position in the same estab-
ishment for Agnes only a few days
ago. The younger sister remained at
he Nelson home to do the house work.
Mrs Nelson expected the. girl would
return to her work Saturday afternoon
and was Mortified when she was noti-
.ified of the suicide. She found the
little note scrawled upon a piece Of
scrap paper which read, ST cannot live
any longer The only explanation Mrs.
Nelson can offer for the act of the girl
S that she felt her homeless and
sriendless condition and took the acid
n a moment of desperation.
The neighborS in the vicinity have
little to say of the case. They were
,ond of the girl who they say,was of
IN unusually happy temperament.
Rev G.. C. Sauer of the Memorial
Baptist church conducted the funeral
md the interment took place in Noun |
ain Grove cemetery