The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-22
BERTHA HUBBELL'S ATTEMPT ON LIFE
 WILL NOT SUCCEED
Congress Street Domestic Nurse Slashed Her Body With Knife on Railroad
 Train,
Note Found on Person Blaming Mother and Brother Probably the Output of a Disordered Mind-TOId Her Folks She Was Going to Surprise Them.

Bertha Beatrice Hubbell aged 22, oldest of three daughters of Mrs. Phoe- be Hubbell, residing at 190 Congress St., made a desperate attempt upon her life in the lavatory of a passenger car on the express train leaving this covered by Conductor J. J. O'Donnell when the train drew into the Grand Central Station at New York. Her throat was cut and she was bleeding from the arteries of both wrists. A blood stained pearl-handled pen knife on the floor told the story. She was hurried to Flower Hospital where it was said this afternoon she was rest ing comfortably and while she has lost a great deal of blood she will probably recover
 The girl said she was Bertha Bea- trice Hubbel of 19O Congress street, Bridgeport. On card, evidently scrubbed in haste, was this:
 April 21.-I am going to take my
 own life. Mother has done this.
 Sister, burn all my clotheswear;
 keep nothing belonging. Please do
 not take me to 190 Congress street
 when I am dead. Let people talk
 when I am dead.
 On the other side of the card was her name and the words:
 My mother has tried to have my
 brother beat me, and I can't stand
 it any longer. I am sick of life,
 and weak.
 Several cards were found in her bag, with memoranda in pencil. On one Street, Bridgeport, Conn.," On another card was: ''W. R. Humphreys, Ridge field, Conn., On the back of this was White House Cook Book, written by F. J. Gillette. Published by J. D. Hill & Co.,. A. East Fourteenth Street, copyright 1889 by S.. Peale.''
 Mrs. Hubbell, mother of the girl first 4oI af6 11nr home last evening from a representa- tive of the Farmer. She said Beatrice had left her home yesterday after noon not saying where she was going. It was suspected by the family that she intended to visit Q friend in East Bridgeport. Inquiry at the home of the friend late in the evening elicited the information that she had not been there.
 Mrs. Hubben when asked if she knew of any cause which might induce her daughter to attempt to end her life said she knew of none although she ex- pected that something of the kind was likely to happen
 Bertha she said had told her and also her sisters Gertrude and Agnes that they would hear something before long which would surprise them She has been acting rather strangely of late and her mother has spoken to her in a manner that Savored of a reprl- mand. Lately she has not been stead ily employed and th1S seemed to ner family to have added to her strange neSS
 Her brother Wm. s. Hubbel1 whom she accused of beating her at the con- mand of her mother is paralytic and was discharged from the U. S. Navy because of disability He is of quiet studious nature and is hardly physi- cally capable of infiicting corporal on anyone even if he so de- sired.
 The sisters of Bertha say that the family have been unduly considerate of her and that she had no cause for complaint. She was employed at times as a domestic nurse. Her folks have noticed that her mind appeared to have become affected of late A day or two ago she gathered together some trinkets she had given to her sisters from time to time and an- that she was going to take them away as neither she nor the wares were appreciated or understood. Members of her family went to New York to-day to attend to her wants at the hospital. It is suspected that the young woman had love affair and the suspicion is entertained that she suf- fered a disappointment that affected reason.