Show KILLED FRIEND FRO FROIM IM THEN HERSELF Double Tragedy in Fashionable Boarding School in Boston TEACHER BECOMES INSANE ESCAPES FROM SANITARIUM AND AWFUL DEED FOLLOWS Boston A murder and sui suicide suicide cide at the Laurens school an exclusive finishing school school for young women was reported to the police today The dead are Miss Sarah Chamberlain Weed of Chestnut Hill Hm Philadelphia and arid Miss Elizabeth Bailey Balley Hardee lIard e of ot East Sa Savannah Savannah vannah Ga Each was about 35 years of age and they had been intimate friends since their graduation from Wellesley Well sley col college college college lege Miss Misa Hardee receiving her diplo diploma ma in 1894 while Miss Weed received hers a year later Miss Hardee was an Instructor in mathematics at Welles Wellesley Wellesley ley in 1899 and 1900 and since that time had been teaching in Vermont Miss Iss Weed Veed had been teaching in various sec sections sections sections of the country Last summer the two women decided to open a boarding school for tor girls In Audubon road in the Fenway Broke Boke Down From Overwork On Oct 1 the day upon which the tho Laurens school chool as they called it was opened Miss Weed Teed broke down as a result of overwork and was Avas taken to toa toa toa a sanitarium In West Vest Newton where she had since been under treatment for Cor nervous nerous prostration While at the san sani sanitarium s nl Miss Weed Veed had bad been subject to severe attacks of melancholia Last night she escaped from the san sanitarium s n and made her way to the Lau Laurens Laurena Laurens rens rena school Miss Hardee volunteered vol to care for Or f r her during the night pend pending pendIng pendIng ing her return to the sanitarium Miss Weed Veed behaved in a peculiar manner according to the teachers wandering aimlessly about the school building and occasionally making some strange and incoherent remark At length Miss Hardee persuaded Miss Weed Veed to retire and the demented wo woman woman woman man her to her Iter own chamber on the third floor of or the school sc ool Both Women Found Dead When Mrs Mra Page the matron of the school went to Miss room this morning to awaken her she found both women dead in bed Miss Har dC i Gl pase Qt f the brain and tt re Woun oun In Iii Miss Weeds Veed right temple tempe A re revolver revolver revolver volver with two chambers empty was wall lying on Miss Weeds breast Medical Examiner Stedman after viewing the bodies declared red that Miss fiss Weed had committed suicide after hav hay having havIng haying ing murdered Miss Hardee The pupils at the about forty in number are daughters of wealthy parents from all sections of oC the country |