Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-01-15
Market Losses
Lead to Suicide
Portland Girl

oOSlOils Jan. Ai--l-SS hoilNSAlI
she had suffered financial ruin in the
stock market crash following the recent
alleged leak" Miss Julia l.. snow, -
years old, of Portland, Me, swallowed
poison on the Charles river embankment
in Brighton yesterday forenoon and dleu
ID few hours later at St. Elizabeth's hos
pital.
Miss Snow, whose widowed mother lives
at a Portland hotel-her father was q
prominent lawyer in the Maine city
came to Boston to visit friends at Zab
Bay State road about two weeks ago.
She was greatly worried over the loss OF
her fortune, and day by day her conol-
ton became more serious she mourn
, ed the loss of almost $4,000 which was
swept away in the market crash.
The woman became more moody ana
Respondent as she contemplated the
plight of her aged mother and herself
and although assured by her Boston
friends that they would assist her IN
every possible way, she quietly lett the
Bay State road apartment very early
yesterday and was not heard from again
until her unconscious body was found
lying upon the river bank near the
Brighton Speedway.
Pathetic Life Story
When, Patrolman Richard Fl. Murphy
of the Speedway station happened up
on the thinly clad form OF Miss snow
at Ills A, NJ she was still alive, but
unconscious Lying on the ground be-
side her was the empty bottle. the OF
ficer hurriedly called the ambulance or
Station IA and sent the woman to ST.
Elizabeth's hospital but she died at
i1210 without regaining consciousness
The suicide of Miss Snow reveals a
pathetic life story. Born and educated
in Maine, she enjoyed more than or
binary luxury during the lifetime of
her father. But when he died, several
years ago, she found it incumbent up
on herself to manage the family es-
tate, much of which was invested in
stocks BY careful investment and
speculation through Portland brokers
she succeeded in adding to the original
inheritance until few weeks ago,
when the fortune was swept away.
Mind Believed Unbalanced
Friday evening Miss Snow, notWith-
standing her depressed condition,
wrote her mother cheerful letter ana
babe the aged woman not to lose cour-
age, that the fortune would be recoV-
cred.
She also wrote an uncle in Minnesota,
but before he received the letter he was
notified by telegraph of the death OF
his niece and is due in Boston at II A Nj.
today to accompany Boston friends TO
Portland to help comfort the mother.
That Miss Shows mind was unbalanced
when she left the Bay State road house
is evident from the fact that when found
she was clad only in a night robe over
which was thrown a blanket. a long
gray coat black felt hat and button
shoes which were unbuttoned
The supposition is that she quietly left
the house sometime about A. NJ. yes
terday and walked along Bay State road
until she reached Commonwealth avenue
and then continued along until she reacn-
ed North Harvard street. AllSton, for
her footprints were discernible in the
snow leading from that thoroughfare In
to the Metropolitan Park Reservation.
She evidently had walked some distance
west of the Larz Anderson Memorial
bridge, as her body was found between
the dixie near the Speedway, and the
edge of the river.
The body, which was taken to the
North Grove street morgue. will be plac-
ed in the receiving vault at Mt. Auburn
cemetery until spring.