The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-06-27
q AM TIRED
 OF LIVING NO
 ONE IS CAUSE"
Lucy Caggiano, Pretty Girl Engaged to Louis Izzo, a Barber Writes Death
 Note
Then Takes Fatal Dose of Carbolic .Acid-Was Elm ployed in Star Shirt Fac tory.


 "Forgive me for what have done. I am tired of living. No one is the cause. Don't let Rosie know it. Kisses to all.
 LUCY.
 'I thank Louis for his kind heart. Don't cry over me, please"
 This is the note found upon a dress CT in the bedroom of 18-year-old Lucy Gaggiano of g Arch street, the daugh- tailor, who was found dying at 8:30 this morning from carbolic acid pois- Oning.
 Lucy died at St. Vincents hospital an hour later, with only the note in explanation of her act, and leaving her family and her sweetheart, to whom she referred in the note, in deepest perplexity and grief. The bot tie in which the acid came has mys- teriousIy vanished.
 Lucy was tall, we'll rounded. dark eyed Italian girl, employed for sev- eral months at the Star Shirt factory. She was soon to marry Louis Izzo, a barber at East Main street and Bar mum avenue, and though the wedding day was not yet named, 1t was ex- pected very soon.
 Yesterday afternoon the girl return ed from her employment at the shirt factory with a slight injury. A nee- dle7 had pierced her finger and the digit became so sore that she decided to remain home for the rest of the day. In the afternoon she became melancholy for no apparent reason, and told her sisters, of whom there are two elder, both married, and one younger, single, that she was tired or life and was going to die.
 They laughed at what they regard ed as her idle talk, and tested with her about talking such silly stuff, es- pecially in view of the devotion of the young barber whom they expected to become her husband very soon.
 But she continued to be moody through the evening. Some time in the evening, none of the family knows just when, she stole out to a nearby drug store with a two ounce bottle, bought 10 cents worth of carbolic acid, and returned home planning the sui- eide.
 At 8:30 this morning the other mem bers of the household, who noticed that the girl continued to be despon- dent at the breakfast table. heard screams, and running into the bed- room found the girl in convulsions upon her bed. The room reeked of carbolic acid One of them snatched up the note, and glacing over it hur- riedly saw that the girl had attempt ed her life.
 The ambulance corps from the Emergency hospital arrived in a few minutes. Dr. Krause found the girls throat cfoked by spasms, and was forced to use the stomach pump through her nostrils. But her condi- tion was almost hopeless and though she was rushed to St. Vincent's hos- pital death occurred in few min- utes.
 Louis Izzo reached the house dur ing the forenoon, hastening from the barber shop as soon as he heard of the tragedy. He was deeply affected by the girls death.
 .I spent Sunday evening with Miss Caggiano,' siad he "Sfe was in good spirits We talked of our ap- proa ching marriage. So far as I could see, everything was pleasant. I cannot understand this, it is a great shock to me-
 The parents of the girl as well as her sisters are equally at loss to ex- plain the tragedy.
 Search of the bedroom has thus far failed to bring to light the bottle in which it is known the girl bought the acid last night It is suspected that she placed the acid in glass and drained it to the bottom, then hast ened to her room. She succeeded in swallowing the acid so neatly that the usual unsightly scars are missing.
 The remains were taken in charge by Rourke & Rourke. Medical Fix aminer Garlick signed a certificate of death by carbolic acid. A brother of the suicide died about two years ago. Three other sisters survive, one of whom, Rosie, is mentioned in her nOte