Ogden Sun | 1905-09-19 | Page 3 | Girl Driven to an Early Grave

her new york sept 15 loranz berry a carpenter of west medford mass today as that of hla daughter ella the body of the young woman who committed suicide on wednesday in the hotel manhattan she was a stenographer in her home town mr berry declared hat the publication of an untrue story in boston a year ago that his daughter had run away with a married man was the baue of her self destruction tho next day mr berry saad it turned out that she had merely been on her vacation alone although the paper published a retraction sir berry said he injury done her was great and sho never recovered from it but grew more and more downhearted and morose wherever my daughter would go continued it would seem as if somebody was ready to point to her as a girl who had been mixed ui in a disgraceful she went away from home to seek in other cities she would bo a short time in a place when the story would reach the cars of her employers and she would be told that she could not remain this happened several times until my child could not bear it any longer it Is stated that a letter had been received by the family from the kirl in which they wece notified by her hat she had decided to put an end 0 o it cannot bear hiis feihe stain upon my character she wrote to her father and I 1 sec nothing else left for me to do than to kill myself forgive me and believe hat I 1 would not do this thing it it were not that I 1 am nearly out of my mind with arlet and horror at the awful story hichi everybody seems to think is ciuc