Spanish Fork Press | 1905-09-21 | Page 2 | Gossip Drives Woman to Take Her Own Life

GOSSIPORIUES IOMAtI C TOJttE K HfR OWN O lifE Pathetic Story of a Girl Who Ha peen Falsely Accused of Eloping With a Married Man I New York Lornnwi Berry a carpenter car-penter of West Medford Mass has Identified as that of his daughter Ella tho body of thin young woman who committed outside on Wednesday of last week in tho Hotel Manhattan lI ho was n stenographer In her hometown home-town Mr Berry declared that the publication publica-tion of an untrue story In a Boston I paper ft year ago that his daughter had run away with a married man was tho cause of her self destrnction Tho next day Mr Berry said It turned out that sho had merely been on her vacation alono Although the paper published a retraction Mr Berry added ad-ded tho Injury done her was groat and she never recovered from it but grow more and more downhearted and morose It Is now stated that a letter had been received by tho family from tho girl in which they were notified by her that she had died to put an end to It ItI I cannot bear this false stain upon my character she wrote to her father fath-er and I nee nothing else left for me to do than to kill myself Please forgive mo and believe that I would not do this thing If It were not that I am nearly out of my mind with grief and horror at tho awful story which everybody seems to think IB true The man with whom Miss Derry was charged with eloping suicided in buns