Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-25
INTER BODY OF SUICIDE
IN HOLLYW0OD CEMETERY
Rev. Russell Cecil, ID. d., to Conduct
Services Over Miss Smith
This Morning.
BROTHERS HERE FOR FUNERAL
No Further Reason for Leap From
Mutual Building Window Discov-
cred by Police-Note Mystery Is
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Premelitated.

The funeral of Miss Elizabeth Smith.
twenty 1.-TWO years old, Il native OF OK
ford n. c.. who has been living at 10
South Fifth street during the last sew
eral months. and who Wednesday af-
ternoon committed suicide by lcaping
from n window on the tenth floor of
the Mutual Building. will take place
from the Office OF Undertaken l.. r.
Christian this morning at 10 o'clock
Rev. Russell Cecil, d. D.. OF the Second
Presbyterian Church, will conduct the
services. and the body of the young
woman. whose death cast pail over
the holiday celebrations OF the city,
VIII be Inferred in a section in Holly
wood Cemetery.
Richard r. and Lewis II. Smith.
Lrothcrs of the suicide and a sister
Miss Fannie Smith. arrived in Rich
mond yesterday
PURCHASE FAMILY SECTION
IN RICHMOND BURYING GROUND
30 arrangements for the funeral
, were made until yesterday morning
nfte' the arrival Of the brothers. They
decided that as the family burying
ground near Oxford, y. c., was some
distance IN the country, and was not
given the care which they desired.
'hey would purchase a section in Holly
Efforts on the part of Detective WiIv
Yesterday failed to bring to light any
! further reasons for the suicide The
! iact that she had been i'm i'll health
ana had exhausted an inheritance of
about $3.50 within The two Years she
had been In this city. IL said To have
caused despondcnce. and TO have led
/ 10 the wild leap from the skyscraper
f., window According to those who are
( SAID to have known her well. there
was no love affair connected with the
causes which led her to take her life
SeNcral young women who knew MISC
/ Sfhith have said that she was rather
peculiar at times. and would do the
most unusual ana unexpected things
ana this has led to the supposition
/ that she might possibly have been suf-
fcring from an attack of mental de-
Engagement at the time she jumped
| from the window
SUICIDE: FREMEDITATED.
! ACCORDING TO EVIDENCE
In any case. the suicide was evident
! ~ preineflitatcd. Contrary 10 her usual
custom. Miss Smith refused to allow
! MISS bigger. with whom she boarded
| TO accompany her as she left the house
! She had written the telephone number
/ OF her residence on a bit OF cardboard
and this was the clue which later led
! to her identification. The mystery of
! inc torn note. which was found near
nv HPot WneTe her body fell, was
/ solved yesterday when newspaper
! man explained that II was one written
! To him by friend and that he had
/ torn on the bottom of the sheet of
paper to makes his notes upon. The
( other sections were evidently lost
! from his coat pocket
| Several persons saw the young
woman as she climbed into the window
/ OF the wonen's waiting room and as
she fell hurting through the air a
| large crowd gathered in the well Of
! the Mutual Building In an effort to
j pass the Gordon of police and to satisfy
! their morbid curiosity with one look
At the rnanglcd form. They came and
: went from the spot for hours after the
body had been removed TO the under
takers establishment
me suicide was one OF the most
spectacular which has occurred in
Richmond in years. II Is the first in
! which a person has jumped from n
skyscraper. although several months
| ago woman was caugh; in the at
! tempt. and was prevented before she
was able to throw herself from the
window. Some years ago n man com
initted suicide by jumping from the
| city Hall tower to the pavement below