Deseret Evening News | 1906-12-26 | Page 7 | Why Did the Woman Commit Suicide

w WHY r DID THE WOMAN Mrs Mary Elsie Balfour Deliberately Drowned Herself In j East Park Lake Los Angeles HER BODY TO BE CREMATED Sudi I III 11 lIti 1 Jj In l lel lI l MOnc Ion 10 u tho Ilic Lo ca Cat Dec A Lor ot or able Inter l III fr b th Ih I ot Of Mrs Jary ary Elsie 3 I Ih vr C Pile age w who h Dsa body was tta I tho th or Of Enat EMt Pari IarI ahe he hail bUll luit woman alone In I ti 1111 seen to the flie park unaccompanied at G C night tho tb II ft number of r ber ler on the bank of the lake uke antl aL later aW Il a dark Ii hi tb water which to bo b the wu wo A pull Upon the garment brought Up ul thi th bOdy ot at the In III Inthe the hand bt on a torn en there was WIlS n UI an Illegible bOn M I Balfour Tur lur lurner ncr ner street My willIs wU t It fl tho little trunk on the Iho table L 1 want to be bc cremated the to ho will wai In It tho tha woman disposes or o large ot of money which thu eho gives tt to and an t tho poor It that att after r tuG tho cit at era cre maUng her body bmW aro her ler mon mone moncy e cy tn In the tho flank ot or San Fran ran rJ deco co be ano the poor or oC tan flo he tune time In tho Copon Copenhagen lagen ar II willed to the of Copenhagen and te latter lutter place ie 10 to liS as the tho bIrthplace lace ot the tho wo woman man the amount In n the flank Dank or of Han an Francisco all 1111 other gro willed to the Wom romans Sn Ju JulIu lIu and Carl Lorentzen of at Copenhagen and Peter and Henry Lorentzen or at the She jewelry to her sleter Nell Nelle e rn n ot Of The Tho mayors or Of Copen Copenhagen hagen arts art as executorS ot or that portion or her estate and are dIrected t It upon the poor Two bank books were found among her err cl One pt those these showed 1 a I depolt ot In the Ios os A Angeles neles Trust and lind the other Ii a at In the American bank at o othis this city TM Th will that the I woman had passed through the Ban l and that the had nl td her mind Noth NothIng Nothing Ing Is known ot of her here