The San Francisco call., 1909-03-07
LACK OF LOVE IS
CAUSE OF SUICIDE
Mrs. Louise j. Jones, Beautiful
and Cultured, Finds Exist
ence AimIess
IdIeness Creates Void Which
Can Not Be Filled by
Things Money Buys

Because of her utter loneliness Mrs.
Louise J. Jones, a beautiful and cul-
tured woman, committed suicide at the
Alta Vista apartment house yesterday
by inhaling gas.
Her sole trouble was a great lack of
love. All else was hers-beauty, money,
charm and education Her life, to all
appearances, had been cast in the
easiest Of lines. That for which the
world daily struggles had been given
to her. but it was not until her final
notes had been read that her friends
saw that beneath her pose of satisfac-
tion and well being had been the cry
ing hunger for the merest crumbs of
affection, a pathetic craving for the
love which so plentifully shone around
her, but which left Enlightened the
! gloom and sadness of her lot
7 am tired--so very tired of this
aimless, Ioveless life she wrote in her
farewell letters. 1T leads me nowhere.
brings me nothing"
YEARS OF EMPTINESS
1t was her verdict after 10 years of
ease and idleness. after 10 weary years
"a ~-ARNAACSS. cilC W DIS separated from
her husband about 10 years ago, and.
as he kept her well supplied with
funds, there was no other need for her
than 10 live comfortably.
Then began a life of travel around
the country. Her home was in hotels
and apartment houses. She had no
cares, no children, nothing which ne
cessitated single sacrifice. She had
but to live and await the next remit
tance from her lawyers, Johnson &
Johnson, 256 Broadway, New York She
never complained, never appeared to
be worried, but underlying her affabil-
ity and evident happiness was the in
creasing horror of the deadening nom
entity Of her existence, the absolute
blankness of the days.
She sought among the waits and
strays to discover some child who
would answer silent maternal plead
ings which 10 years of aimlessness
had not stified; but failed to find it
Last Thursday, reading in The Call of
baby girl deserted by its mother, she
went TO the central emergency hospital
with the intention of adopting it. Her
friends. however, objected, telling her
the world might be apt to put wrong
construction on her motives, and to
their advice she listened. On the same
day Mrs. William Z. Robinson. her
cousin, who has been visiting in San
Francisco for the last two months. said
that her husbands business made it
necessary for them to go to Seattle
thereby removing from Mrs. Jones her
only relative in this part of the coun-
try.
DISPOSES OF EFFECTS
1t was the last straw On Friday
night she casually asked Robinson how
TO go about making her will, and on
receiving the information retired.
Then in the solitude of her room she
summed up her life and came to her
ultimate decision. There was no hys-
terical outpouring of her sorrows in
her letters, no complaint. To the land
lady she wrote a practical note, giving
directions as to the disposition of her
effects. The letter to her cousin con-
tanned the cause of her act, declaring
she was simply tired of a loveless.
aimless life. Another letter, which
was sealed and stamped, was to her
lawyers in New York
When the odor OF escaping gas
warned the occupants of the house
they broke in the room and found her
in bed, lifeless. She was about 40
years OF age. Her relaxatives in the
east have been notifid.
Husband an Invalid
NEW YORK, March alexander
Jones, husband of Mrs. Lousie Jones'
is an invalid and travels extensively
as had Mrs. Jones. When they were
not travelling together remittances to
Mrs. Jones from her husband were
made through E. w. s. Johnston, an
attorney here AZ Mr. Johnston's office