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Show GOSSIP DRIVES ifffl ' to Ike her own life. Pathetic Story of a Girl Who Had. Been Falsely JVccuscd ofElopIng With a Mitf'M3" 'J Now York. Lorenzo IJerry. a car-riohtbj' car-riohtbj' of -West Medfor'd, MnsS., has Identified 'as that of his daughter Ella tno body of tho young woman who committed suicide on Wednesday of last week' 'In the Hotel Manhattan. iho was a stcnographor In hor homo oWn. Mr, Berry declared that tha publication publica-tion of an untrue story In a Doston papor a year ago that his daughter had run away with n married man was tho cnUBO of her self-dostructlon, Tho noxt day, Mr, IJerry said, It turned out that sho had merely been on hor vacation alone. Although the paper published a retraction, Mr. Horry added, ad-ded, tho Injury dono her was great and sho never rocovorod'from It, hut grow moro nnd moro down-hearted and morose. It Is now stated that a letter had boon rccdlvod by tho family from tho girl, 'In which thoy woro notified by her that sho had died to put an end to it. "I cannot bear this falso stain upon my charactor," sho wroto to hor father, fath-er, "and I sep nothing olso left for mo to do than to kill myself. Tlcnso forglvo me. nnd bellevo thnt I would not do this thing If It woro not that I tin pearly out of my mind with grief and horror at tho awful story which ovcrybodyj sooraa lo think Is troo." Tho man with whom Miss Berry was charged with eloping suicided In (Juno. |