The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-03-05
.COULDN' STAND
TEASING, GIRL
ENDS HER LIFE
Teacher Reads Note Aloud in
School, and Lassie, Shamed
Takes Poison.

HARTFORD, Mar. 4.-They buried
Gladys Stone the other afternoon, SIX
of her boy sch0nlmates acting as benr-
ers for the beautiful II year old daEgh-
ter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Fred A. Stone, Of
Go. 36 Capitol avenue, who committed
suicide because her teacher read aloud
ii note she had sent to one of the boys
=1n=the school room.Z The Rev. Harry
s. Scarborough. pastor Of tho South
Park Methodist church, officiated at
The funeral services and brought tears
to many eyes when he alluded to the
fact that, less than year ago, on last
Easter Sunday, the child had been
confirmed on the very spot where her
coffin rested during the church funeral
services.
Teacher Absent from Funeral.
The lads who acted as bearers were
CIR. Scarborough's son, Robert, Bur-
ion Reed. George Scott, Walter Bis
sell, Edwin Mason and Frederick REV.
ins. The boy with whom she sent the
fatal note. Roger Wolcott, was asked
to be bearer, but he has been i'll
ever since he heard Of the tragedy.
Neither was the teacher, Miss Victoria
j. Jameson, who has taught in the
Wadsworth Street school for over for
ty years, able to attend the funeral.
She planned to do SO, but because
of several fainting attacks in the
schoolroom Friday she was persuaded
by other teachers to return to her
homo when the class was dismissed
TO attend the funeral in body. The
forty pupils in the room collected sub
scriptIons and their floral tribute was
one of many that was received. Prln-
ciral Louis II. Stanley. OF the Wads-
worth Street school. who has been
grief stricken, since he read the little
girls notes written because she took
cnrhollc acid, was ut the funeral scrv-
ices and said that Gladys was zone
OF the most beautiful and promising
children who ever attended his
school,"
Gladys, who was precocious and
temperamental beyond her years,
knew that two OF her dearest friends
boy and a girl who had been very
friendly, had had a falling out over
some trivial matter and evolved q
scheme by which to reconcile them
To Roger Wolcott, n chum of the boy
she wrote note asking him to have
the boy at a valentine party at the
South Park Methodist church last
Tuesday night and she would have the
girl he her guest. Then she planned
TO confront the two. feeling sure they
would make up.
Miss Jameson, the teacher. saw
Roger reading the notct which had
been handed him outside the school
room, and asked him where he got II
and whnfwrote 1t. Then she read the
note rerself. She says that at the
beginning Of the term, to discourage
whispering and note passing, she an
rounced she would read aloud an!
motto which she intercepted. So she
ready Gladys innocent and we'll in
tentioned letter to Roger. Most OF the
children laughter when they heard 1t
and even Gladys smiled, though 1t is
evident she felt most deeply.
PIaymates Teased Her.
Nothing more was heard OF the in,
,cldrat until Gladys Joined her play
mates who were skating on the Ice
near her house after school. They
'ibeean 10 tense her numerically ahou
,nlaylNg the matchmaker and bcint
caught by her teacher trying to patel
mp lovers quarrels. She left tho ict
ani when she arrived home was cry,
1ly 1yEterlcally. She asked her mother
for ten cents with which to buy {
school pad and going to the corner
drug store bought small vial o.
poison. Some time later she wa
heard choking in the bathroom ant
when tie door was broken down sht
was lying unconscious on the floor
"a nearby doctor was called, but he ex
p!alncd he didn't handle such case!
and there was considerable delay be
forc The police ambulance arrived nat
the l.tle girl was rushed to the Hart
ford hospital, where she died within
nm hour before her father, summone;
from bridgeport, could reach her bed
s'de =. '-''''-' ~ t.-''--.
Her younger sister. Hazel. IL year
old. found a note addressed TO til
family. in which she hoped that Co
would bless her mother. her father
her sister. Miss Jameson, her teache
taFid,r.dward Fay a friend who was III
She said gopdhy 70. her chuIls an