Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1913-09-13
VERONICA BISHOP
Father in Charles Town Receiv-
ed Despairing Letter


4 cp Killed Herself At Atlantic City
HoteI--The Mysterious Suicide Had
a Gold Watch Which Had Engraved
the letter -" Witch Perhaps
Stood For Bowles.
NEW YORK, Sept H.-positiye es.
adjustment OF the fact that the MUIR
dered young woman whose dismemr
bered body has been recovered from
the Hudson river was not Miss Ida
NJ. Bowles, OF Charleston, w. Va, has
served to direct another conjecture
as 20 whether the missing Miss Bow.
les may not have been the myster.
ious Miss Veronica Bishop who com
mtted suicide by gas IN an Atlantic
City hotel August n last
Miss Bishops first attempt to kill
herself was on the night OF August
is. when she motored to Port Jeffer.
son. l.. l.. and sought to fling herself
of pier there into the bay. Blu.
telephone warning had been sent TO
the authorities and they were on hand
to prevent her selfdestruction. She
said she wanted to die because Lou's
u. Larocque a wealthy young New
York clubman, had been engage 1,
her and had killed himself by drown,
ing from Port Jefferson pier a few
weeks before. N'
4 His Family Didn't Know Her.
Larocque's family denied all knowl.
edge of the young woman and assert.
ed he had never been engaged
August II the young woman regis
tered under the name OF Miss Burns
at the Isleworth Hotel, Atlantic City.
and committed suicide by Inhaling
il,..nInatIng gas.
What leads TO the suggestion that
Miss Bishop may have been none 9th
lsr than the missing Miss Bowles is
lcurlous similarity IN the dates Of Miss
Bishops FIRST attempt at suicide and
the day OF her death with letter that
Miss Bowles sent to her father an
nouncng her intention to do away
with herself backed by the circum-
stance that Miss Bishop was known
to her New York friends as South.
erner and was Of the same age and
description of Miss Bowles. The iden-
tlty OF Miss Bishop never was cleared
up
There was young Englishman
named Talbot who was mixed up III
her affairs and who warned the Port
Jefferson, L / authorities. When she
killed herself In Atlantic City Talbot
identified the body and shipped II
South, frs. to Phladelphia--and to
what point after that has never been
learned.
The Suicide Letter.
August =, the date OF Miss Bishops
| first attempt upon her life. Miss Bow
les wrote her father the following let
ter:
New York, Aug is.
Dear Dad | have been hurt very
badly and cannot get over IL, so am
going to end 1t all. Don't you worry,
for II is for the best. and it Is i'm
possible for me to ever return, and
don't believe in lifelong suffering.
Give my love to all the children. In
closed are my little savings. hope
you will make use of them. have
ordered my things burned. Nobody
knows where | will be SO | win not
be found Dad. | wouldn't do this *
there was any way out of 1t, but
there is not.
Just think of 1t as for the best.
You would not like to know ! was
living in a hell here on earth. would
you? Yours, lovingly. IDA.
Dies On Day He Got Letter.
The day Mr.. Bowles received this
letter MISS Bishop succeeded in her
suicidal purpose in the Atlantic City
Hotel. She had been married to John
r. Davis. but after a short time they
had separated and she divorced him.
| When Talbot arrived to identify
the body all doubt as to the young
womans identity was removed when
he saw watch Of her ownership. 1t
was OF gold and bore the initial "B-'
1t will be seen that this Is the first
letter Of Bowles as well as Bishop.
Talbot could not be found last
night. as he had moved from No. l49