The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1914-03-10
FIGHT FOR HONOR
MADEBY WOMAN
ENDS IN SUICIDE
Il Love You Too Much" Mrs.
Hazday Told Husbands
Friend, Urging Him to Go.
MAKES PATHETIC PLEA.
Writes Husband at Is for Ny
Honor That | Take Ny
Life"
MAKES PATHETIC PLEA.

A story poignant with the grief of
a woman who had made vain night
for her honor while her husband was
away lies in . letter placed In the
hands Of the Coroner to-day after the
suicide Of Mrs. Victoria Hazday. who
killed herself yesterday in her homo.
No. ia Orchard street. Temptation
came to her. She fought against It
because she loved her husband. She
was young and beautiful. Of Jewish
faith and Turkish birth. Her admlrer
kept At his siege until he won and she
lost.
-Four months ago Mrs. Hazday
came to this country to join her hus-
band who had come ahead to make
. new homo for her and her children.
Two months ago the husband. Behor
Aasday. lost his position. Yesterday
he went out In search Of err ployment
and tho wife sent the children to the
streets to play. The remorseless
attacks Of her conscience finally
made her decide to end her life. In
her bedroom she barred her breast
before q mirror and then plunged n
<nife into her heart.
LETTER WRITTEN ~ WOMAN
BEFORE ENDING LIFE.
In one Of her hands was found this
letter Of both confession and appeal
Il swear. reader. my husband
being on the road, there came to
me q young man named Leon. He
came with q bag and money. He
was an Armenian friend OF my
husband, Behor. He said to me:
You have no bread. no light
Then he came again and again
and l began to love him like q
brother. told him about the money
you. my h<sband. made and how l
was savin. "a quarter OF what you
sent me. for perchance there would
como . bad day.
He was handsome and held him
40 brother because he was q friend
nj my Behor. I liked him and then
--then--I said: GO! Go! Let us
separate. IL love you too much"
"T won't go! won't co. he
cried. And he stayed and stayed.
"And then--no! no! no! ! could
not have such ideas! was q
good woman. good. honest
woman.
"Ah. It IL nothing to the world
III sacrifice my life. feel that 1t
II necessary for my soul to have
departed before daring to show
my face in my own homo. He
was my happiness. my life.
AS much as have suffered tho
people believe that I was joyous
woman. But was the mother OF
patience. When the days Of sad
ness came gladly took them. For
4, thGre was always the hope that
) the morrow would bring hap
pinsss and peace.
. ut WAS FOR HONOR THAT I
TOOK NY LIFE"
"Do not carry me away to Q
cold. cold grave. DO not take mo
away merely . coward who killed
herself. But do TAX, me Al a SIS
tsr. for It was for m. honor that
I took my life. was the most
. honest woman in the world.
have never even touched the hand
Of any other young man.
ut II impossible for me to live
longer. my Behor. The heavens
and the earth have become dark
and sad. An. Behor. my husband.
my own Behor. you have seen me.
You have known me for the good
wife ! have been TO you. Behor.
And now that ] am gone. do not
.-please, please do not take unto
yourself another wife for three
months"
The woman was buried to-day b
n Hebrew burial society. During tn
short services the husband looked O
in dazed| silence.
! "Where In this man OF whom you
wife wrote?" the husband was aske
through an interpreter.
,rrsF cha old country" was his an