The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-09-30
DIED BECAUSE Of
CLAIMED NEGLECT
fContinued From rage One.1

FUN age ou6.1
mitted on the veranda of the Central
Grammar School in the old High School
grounds on Emma street. The coroner 8
jury last night rendered verdict that
the death of Mrs. Kelsey was self
inflicted during fit of dependency
and letters found in her dress suit case
give the motive for the act.
That the woman was respondent is
amply borne out by typewriter letters
written on machine which she kept
in her room at the Methodist Parson-
age addressed to DR.. Frank E. Clark,
dentist, whose Office is in the Progress
Block, near to which the suicide oc.
cured. These letters had been torn
up and the bits thrown into the suit
case, together with envelopes which
bore DR.. Clark S addressed and post
marks indicating that they had been
sent through the mail on September IL.
How letters mailed to DR.. Clark and
forwarded through the mails should
again he in the possession of the de-
ceased was explained by DR.. Clark at
the inquest. He says that she sent
many letters to him on various sub
iects but often would call at his office
for them and take them back before
he reached there himself in the morn
ing
In one letter, with it's attendant en-
velope dated September II, Mrs. KEEL
sey refers to a long acquaintance with
the doctor and to various matters of
mutual interest to them, particularly
upbraiding him for not seeming to take
any further interest in her. In this
letter she threatened to end her life
as it was of no further use to her.
She sets forth in these letters that
she has given much and received little
in return. Several such letters ad-
dressed to DR.. Clark were found.
DIR. Clark stated to the jury that he
knew Mrs. Kelsey only in a business
way and that he had done dental work
for her besides taking mortgage on
a piece of property in Palolo which she
was purchasing from the government.
According to a memorandum which the
woman left this amounted to $215.
Other witnesses set forth that Mrs.
Kelsey has been respondent for long
time and has frequently expressed the
opinion that life was only a weary
round of work, eat and sleep. She
brooded somewhat over financial mat
teEs. Several memoranda found by
Coroner Rose, probably written on
Tuesday evening, give items of small
bills which she says she owed, while
she asked that her typewriter be Civ
en- to certain friends.
Mrs. Kelsey was forty-three years of
age, and has a son about seventeen
years of age, who is said to be now
in Mexico. About a year ago she OBJ
tanned a divorce from Henry E. Kel-
sey, who was for some time the man
ager of Wall, Nichols store at Hilo,
and who is now residing in Hawaii.
Although she had been quite CHEEKY
in public, yet it was noticed by friends
that she was in respondent mood.
Since her divorce she had been depress-
ed in spirits and the fact that she
might lose the property at Palolo on
which she had paid considerable money
seemed to weigh upon her mind.
On Tuesday evening she had dinner
at the Palm. as usual, and then re-
turned to her room. She spoke of her
| laundry not having been returned and
said she would go out and see the
laundryman. She returned home about
s O'Clock. her return being indicated
J to other inmates of the house by her
| footsteps, which were quick and well
| known to the others. That she left the
/ house soon afterwards is apparent by
the fact that her bed was undisturbed,
] at the Kamehameha clubhouse on up