Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-10-22
BARRED FROM HIS
PANSY, LOvELORN
!, MAN TRIES DEATH
Writes Farewell Letter, With
Sob in Every Line, Then
Takes Gas.
LOVED BY GIRL WHO SAYS
MOTHER WAS CRUEL TO HIM
Discovered in Time and Rushed
to Hospital, He Will Live to
Love More Auspiciously.

Heartbroken because he was turned
away from the home of his sweetheart,
Ruth Carlotte Scott of 1877 Newark
street, Clifford Ogden 20 years old, of
10 Rutgers street, attempted suicide
last night by inhaling illuminating gas
and is today in the City Hospital,
where 1t is said he will recover.
Both his sweetheart and her mother,
Mrs. Isabella Scott, who told Ogden to
leave her house and not to return
again, are today in a condition border
ing on nervous collapse, and Mrs. Scott
tainted when told of Ogdens act.
letter informing her OF his inten-
tion to commit suicide was received by
Miss Scott this morning from the young
man.
A Sob In Every Line.
1t read as follows:
Newark, N. J., October q, 1910
Darling Pansie-When you receive
this letter 1 hope to BEN more.
see your mother is trying to part
u.s. dear, and i can never stand to
hear that; so l am going to die.
l love you, dear, more than words
5can tell, and it broke my heart to
lbe turned away from your home,
as l was tonight, without even
seeing you.
There is no blame on you. dear,
or anyone else, but 1 can't stand
this strain any longer, dear, for l
am broken down now altogether,
and l think this will be the best
way out.
would like to write more, but
as my people will be home | must
hurry up and get this over with.
Your heartbroken sweetheart,
CLIFFORD. +
Ogden and Miss Scott had been keep
ing company for six months. He Wis
ited her about three times week, but
would not always be permitted to see
: her. Mrs Scott, who, 1t is said by her
daughter, is very strict. would only per-
mit the couple TO sea each other when
sl.s felt so inclined.
~se Says Her Mother Is Cruel.
''My mother said Miss Scott, is
too strict and too cruel Clifford and
love each other, and despite the fact
that my mother knows Clifford is a
good young man, she would constantly
nag at him and me. We could not en-
joy each others society without her in
reference"
Mrs Scott could hardly speak while
her daughter said this, and when asked
If 1t was the truth did not deny 1t.
Ogden was found on the bed last
might by his father with "a gas-tube in
his mouth, and was rushed to the CITY
Hospital.
At Ogden's home it was said by his
sister Emma that she, with her father,
returned from moving-picture show
shortly after o'clock last night.
When they reached home they found
Clifford lying on The couch apparently
asleep She did not notice the tube,
and, calling out to awake him. said:
Asks Him whether He Is Crazy.
Clifford have you The dumps again
or are you crazy? Go to bed" She
then went downstairs to buy some
household needs Whom she came back
"a few minutes later she found her
father crying and bending over Cliff
ford. The gas-tube was taken out OF
his mouth, the windows opened and,
and while Miss Emma Ogden went for
"a physician, friends notified the city
Hospital
my brother had been melancholy for
some time" said Miss Ogden we
thought he was grieving over the death
of mother. who died eighteen montnS
ago. We also thought he was troubled,
because my aunt, Mrs. Elida Kent, Oh
Mt. Pleasant avenue, told him one day
that he was only IN adopted son.
There is no truth in this, and we told
him So
Ogdens family could not understand
why he should attempt suicide. lie
never told them of his troubles at the
home OF his sweetheart.
Miss Scott did not believe that Ogden
would be capable of SO rash an act,
and was greatly shocked when told
of it today by an EVENING STAR re-
porter.