The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-02-02
Mrs. Abbie E. Moran of Cen
trail Street, Dressmaker,
Was DespOndent
BODY FOUND WHEN
HER NEPHEW CALLED
Attached Small Cord 20 Bed Post
Asked Downstairs Tenant to Come Up
After Church-Young Woman Who
Lived with Her Was Away.

Mrs. Abbie +. Moran, 81. we'll
known dressmaker and widow of Den
MS J. Moran, took her own life early
yesterday afternoon by hanging her
self to bedpost with a stout cord at
her home. 10 Central street. When the
body was found life apparently had
been extinct only short time
Mrs. Moran spent a few weeks in
Springfield, Mass, with a sister, Mrs.
Nellie n. Coolidge, and had been ar
home some 10 days, during which time
she seemed more despondent than
usual. Her nephew. Casper N Moran.
went to call upon her yesterday about
clock, at her upstairs tenement.
Finding the door locked and getting
no response to his efforts to call his aunt
to the door. he started to leave the
building, thinking that she had gone
to some friend : for dinner. but he
turned back and went to the side door
and asked Mrs. i. p. Barrett, who
| lives down stairs, if she had seen any
| thing of Mrs. Moran. Mrs Barrett
/ knew that Mrs. Moran was home in
| the forenoon. She went up the back X
] ~ 80 - CNSis eAAnS NaS al
right.
Mrs. Barrett Found Body.
Mrs. Barrett. upon discovering the
bohy, screamed, and Mr.. Moran, realiz-
ing that something was wrong, hasten
ed across the street to telephone and
summoned DR.. a. !. Miller Mrs. Bar
rctt meantime summoned aid from the
neighbors and John Skinner and Hugh
Agnew took the body down. Mrs.
Moran had fastened one end of the
cord to the bedpost, tied the other
around her neck and then stretched
herself out or the floor and slowly
strangled TO death.
Mrs. Moran had swept the stairs and
the steps that morning and had SAID to
Mrs. Barrett that she would like 70
have her come up stairs and call after
Mrs. Barrett returned from church.
She added that if the front door was
locked the rear one would be unlocked
as she never locked that one.
Had Shock Last July.
The fact that she had been in i'll
health over year and had suffered a
slight shock last July while at work
, in Mrs Hattie Warren : dressmaking
rooms, is believed to have been the
: occasion for her apparent dependency,
Her request 10 Mrs. Barrett to call
] upon her leads TO the belief that she
contemplated her act early yesterday
morning Her house was in perfect
order and fresh coal had been placed
} on the fire. probably the last act before
4 she took her life. Miss Hope Howard
. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Matthew
I Howard of Orchard street, lived with
! Mrs Moran. while working in the
overall factory, but she went home tC
stay over Sunday, so Mrs. Moran was
. in the tenement alone.
Formerly an Attendant.
Mrs. Moran was born in Londonderry
. Oct. /, 1850, daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs
& Hiram Patterson and came 10 Brattle
& horo when young woman. For a tim'
i she was employed an attendant a
the Brattleboro Retreat. She was mar
ried in 1870 in Bratleboro to Dennis
I J. Moran and both were employed 70
l. some time as attendants at the Retreat
{ Mr.. Moran died in the Brattlehor
i Memorial hospital Jan. 10. 1908. The,
}, had no children. She was membe
D. Of the Univcrsalist church and o
!. Dennis Rebekah lodge.
J. Mrs. Moran leaves three sisters, Mrs
!. Nellie Coolidge and Mrs. Lillian
}. Blythe of Springfield, Mass, and Mr.;
!. Ella c. Dunbar of Somerville. Mass
:. and three brothers. Charles \. Patter
! son of Peterboro, y. H.. John G.. 0
!. Walpole, y. H., and Elwin f. of Put
Z. ney.
- The funeral services will be held Il
4 morrow afternoon at 2.30 o clock j
the undertaking parlors of Bond
Son, 81 Main street Rev. Delmar I
Trout. pastor of the UniversaIis
church. will offieiate and the burial wi