Ogden Weekly Standard | 1905-11-10 | Page 2 | Despondent Girl Took Own Life

despondent GIRL TOOK OWN LIFE JURY FINDS JOSEPHINE MOVES COMMITTED SUICIDE was cast down over death of grand mother and had often hinted at suicide from thursdays standard after careful investigation wo find that said josephine came by her death on november 7 1903 at ogden utah from the effects of a boso doso of laudanum administered by her own band with suicidal intent AMOS signed M E BULKLEY JAMES CASSIN jurors the above is the official statement ot the cause of deatle of the young girl who was found dead tuesday morning at ahe residence of her sister mrs william hadley 2329 grant avenue the testimony ot six witnesses called before the coroners jury that eat yesterday afternoon before judge murphy in the municipal court resulted in the but tho fact was also brought out thai for at least a couple ot weeks before the suicide of the young girl eho had been despondent and had talked frequently with the girls with whom she worked at the troy st cam laundry of making away with herself her companions had thought that she was only fooling and had paid no great attention to her statements although one of abo girls who testified ada brostrom stated to the jury that on monday ehg had walked homo from work with the dead girl and the latter bad told her that she was going away and would never see her again that statement excited miss brostrom and she argued with miss moyas telling her that it was wrong to kill ones self the testimony developed ahe tact that miss boyea was aoi happy in her home lite and that she greatly missed her grandmother by whom she was brought up and who died last spring and that on several occasions she had said that she was going to her mother meaning her grandmother R ST connor for whom the dead girl worked ada brostrom roso but tervo rth isabelle graney mrs william hadley the girls sister mrs lizzie ream of plain city dr E I 1 aich who examined body after death and chief browning who was called into the case after tho death wag discovered were examined and their testimony pointed to the theory that has been held before the examination of the witnesses fhe jury viewed the remains at undertaking parlors where they have been since tuesday