Bisbee daily review., 1910-03-31
INVALID ENDS
 HER MISERY BY
 ROPE AND LIMB
Yssng Woman From the East Hangs Three Days in Phoe- nix Before Being Discovered by Boys.

PhoRNX. March 30.-Her body kuns for shree full days and nights withis fifty yards of two homes, one that sf ". D. Fulwiler and ;n almost plain view of dozens of people at he end of a TOW of umbrella trees. bHea fcrgensoR. who disappeared from 1sS West Madison street last Wednesday. was found at noon yester- day but a short distance wes. of Grand avenue and about 400 wards hsfAwest Of the switvch on the Six Points car une.
 In what. at casual glance. had the aRpsarance Of a natural position. the woman was found with a rnre aroupd her neck, enc end being fastened in the limb of the umbrella tee. She was standing flat on the ground her lace turned upward. and her hands grasPed to a lower limb of the tree
 a- the inquest. conducted by Jus uce Johnstone today. it deyeloDed that the woman evidently selected the spot for self-destruction las. Wed neseay when she walked through the yaza of J. Burris on Grand avenue and then passed through a mesquite thiclef.
 Ca Thursday Miss Torgerson was seen to pass through the Burris yard asaan, and it is believed at that time she was going to her death for she carried a small paper bag that con. talHed the small rope wi h which she strangled herself to death.
 Carl Col'nan. Amos Dye and John Stove-. three small boys. were the first to pay any attention to lthe strange position of the woman At firsi they though her looking up iato the tree. but when she kept the same position for some time sus- peeted some hing wrong and report ed to older people.
 Deputy Sheriff Jeff Adams was called 10 the scene and found the woman dead He informed Coroner Johnstone and Moore & Mcclellan cut the body down and brought t to Phoenix. Parts of the body were in an advaEsod stage of dccompo- sitisn.
 Besides the three boys who found the body. Mrs.J. Burris. Miss Burriss, Ads~tant ". P Dowell of the Saiva- tien Army and Deputy Adams all tes. ified at the inquest before John stsee. Mrs Burr.s and Miss Burris testified to having seen the woman pass through their yard the former saying that on Saturday she passed close to where the body was found. but had not noticed it.
 Dowell testified to Miss Torgenson's cening here recently for her health. He found her rooms at 133 West Mesison, where she left a trunk. He also received a letter and sev- eraf notes from her. which indicates that she had planned the suicide for several days.
 Ia notes, Miss Torgenson asked B01ell to notify Ed. Neiaader Of 161G SOuth Hope stree. Los Angeles, lens Tbalin. her brother in Sweden and Hannah Truedson at Umestarp. Toy lap. Sweden. if anything should happen to her.
 Among the woman's effects was found a bank book issued to her by the Illinois Trust and Savings bank sf Chicago. On Augus- 25. 1898. she deposited sl400 in this bank and the interest since had run her savings up to sz02S.1o. Out of this was to have been taken $z00 she drew on March 22. last
 When Miss Torgenson arrived here she tried 70 borrow s2s on which to go to Denver She could not raise tho money and drew S2O0 on her Chi caSo bank. This arrived here since she disappeared
 In no less than six places Miss ToTgcnsr1 wrote in notes and on slips Of paper that she wanted all her money to go to her sis.ef. Han ] aah Trdsedon, who lives in Sweden. She seemed especially anxious that her sister should have her money . and to Impress this on those who handle her estate. she wrote 1t often ! for heir guidance.
 Evidently Miss Torgenson camo here in search of heath. That she | wes aa invalid, probably afflicted with ! is indicated by the clip sfnrs among her effects. advertising cosgh nostrums. That she feared she would never recover her heal-h and in her despondency became in- sane, Is he belief of the authorities The jury's verdict was in accordance win these facts
 sue was born in Sweden on Feb raary I4, 1857, and was a few days 1 sver 5s years of age She had eyi- seStIy lived in Chicago and Los An se1es.
 In DO less than ten hastily scrib- | sied note brought to light since her a1lsh Ellen Torgenson intimated in sEy one that she contemplated self | dssfruction. On the back of an en- .Aope was found these words; "El- l4 Torgenson died--" Evidently sse had arted to write the announce nent of her death and stopped.