5 Oct 1838 - New York Daily Herald (New York City)

Vol II, No. 124, Page 2, Column 1.

CORONER’S OFFICE - Supposed Love and Suicide - An elderly lady called on Thursday evening at the Coroner’s office, and showed his clerk a letter which had been that morning found on the dressing table of a young lady, who had a few hours before left home, since which no trace could be found of her, and her friends feared that she had committed suicide. The letter was written by a Miss Mary Cecilia Rodgers, who resided at 114 Pitt street, and was directed to her mother. In this letter the young lady took an affectionate farewell of her mother, and informed her that she had left home with the fixed and unalterable determination to destroy herself. As soon as the mother of the young lady received the letter, she sent messengers in different directions in search of her daughter, but up to a late hour on Thursday evening they had not succeeded in discovering any trace of her. The young lady, it appears, had some time back attended in a store in Broadway, and while there, had been, for several months, paid particular attention to by a gentleman, who since ceased his attentions, and left the city; and it is supposed that this circumstance had so operated upon the young lady’s mind as to produce the occurrence we related. When leaving her mother’s house, on Thursday morning, she was dressed in a brown satin frock, Tuscan hat, and wore a small silk handkerchief on her neck.