The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-06-14
GIRL SUICIDE
BURIED TODAY;
MOTHER in BED
Mrs. Ross Frustrated at Self De-
StructiOn of 13 Years
Old Daughter
Discovery of Floating Corpse
Clears up Mystery of
<Child's Disappearance


Mrs Lottie B. Ross, whose missing
daughter, Mabel, 13, was found drown
ed in Yellow Mill pond, last night, was
unable to leave her bed this after
noon to attend the funeral services of
the school girl suicide. Mrs. Ross
Is under the care Of Dr. William c.
Bowers, her family physician, who re-
garded her condition as too grave to
permit her to leave the house. Mrs.
Ross is hysterical and at times re-
fuses to believe that her little girl is
dead.
The funeral was held this afternoon
from the undertaking parlors Of H. A.
Remington, in East Main street. 1t
was held privately. The corpse, up
on which the action of the water had
taken effect, was placed in a closed
casket. After brief services at the
undertaking parlors, at $3.50, the re-
mains were taken to Lakeview ceme-
terry accompanied by a few relatives,
and interment was made in the family
plot of the late steamboat man, Moses
Edwards, the father Of Mrs. Ross.
The discovery of the corpse of lit
tie Mabel af1oat in Yellow Mill pond
at z o'clock last night solved the mys-
terry of her disappearance. Threats
Of suicide made by the girl on many
occasions, have led the authorities to
conclude that the little girl threw her.
self into the Yellow Mill pond, but
when and from what point they can
not determine.
Mabel was missing from her rpoth-
er's home, in an apartment house at
IL Butler street, since Thursday
Arv,fr cI,A ~
for school she detected a slight tear
in a shirt waist her mother had laid
out for her. She protested against
wearing the torn garment.
.'The girls will make fun of me,
mamma" said Mabel
Mrs Ross, brave little woman,
thrown upon her own resources when
her husband abandoned her at Wor-
cester, last fall, had no other clean
waist for the child. She pinned the
torn garment together Little Mabel,
a pupil in the seventh grade, at the
Clinton avenue school, still demurred
and broke into tears.
Mrs Ross brother, Ira, who with
his wife lives with Mrs. Ross, and
who works nights, was awakened by
the child's crying, and when she heard
him stirring about, she feared punish
ment. She ran from the house with
out hat or coat, and when at noon
she did not return, the mother learned
that she did not go to school.
Butler street is in the West End,
near the junction of State street and
Fairfield avenue, about two miles
from the Yellow Mill bridge. Inves-
of the little girl led to the discovery
that she had continued east in Fair
field avenue, past Clinton avenue
where she should have turned to the
school, and the last heard of her she
was seen east of Grove street.
The police came to the conclusion
yesterday the girl was with friends
Of her father, for. they learned that
the latter was anxious to gain posses
sion of the child.
At O'Clock last night boat went
adrift from the wharf near Drawten-
der John McLarney's house at the
Yellow Mill bridge. Robert Cronan,
employed at the A. T. & S. Co., climb
ed into a skiff to get the drifting boat,
and McLarney was watching his oper
ations from the drawbridge.
afloat in the water He called Gro
mans attention to it, and as the lat
ter, padded near, he cried out that it
was a woman.
The tug Royal showing a light mud
scow ahead was preparing to go
through the draw. Cronan stopped
the craft, and the scowman grasped
it until Charles Reldeif, of the Park
City Yacht Club, went out in a skiff,
and towed the body to the float
Mrs j. A. McGuinness Of 4SS STRAIT
ford avenue, an acquaintance Of the
Ross family. identified the body de-
spite it's Disagreement, and promptly
telephoned to Mrs. Charles D. Cleve-
icfo 30 fhr
former hastened to the Ross home in
Butler street where the news was COM
municated to the distracted parent.
The shock overcame her so completely
that Dr. Bowers was at once sum-
moned.
Rourke & Rourke removed the re-
mains to the morgue, and later Flu
at the request of the relatives of the
child. Owing to the condition of the
the services were held in pri-
vate.
Mabels suicide was not without
many threats of sefe-destruction.
Mamma, we haven't anything more
to live for,'' she often told her parent.
used to when papa was home" Her
mother would try to cheer up the
child, and sought to interest her in
music, in which the girl was unusual
ly proficient.
No word has come here from Frank
H. Ross. the father of the girl He
is now employed by the American
Lady Corset Co. of Detroit, Mich He
came here in January, and when Mrs
Ross refused him admission to the
house, created a scene. At that time
he was accompanied by a brother who
lives in Hoboken.
1t was learned today that when Mrs
Ross became the bride of the young
musician. she believed him to come
Of an old English family Later she
discovered that he was of Italian
birth, much to her surprise. and that