The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, March 30, 1909, Page THREE, Image 3
SUICIDE SHOCKS WASHINGTON
Wife of Tobacco Magnate Found
Death in Gas-Filled Bath Room
-Attended Fashionable
Dinner Night Be
fore.
Washington, March 25.-Weary of
the gay whirl of society and face tv
face, as she believed. with years of
physical suffering, Mrs. Pierre Loril
lard, Jr., aged 49. wife of the tobac
co magnate, committed suicide by as
phvxiatione at her home, near the
fashionAble Dupont Circle, in this city
today. Her tragie death has shock
ed the first social circles of the capi
tal as has nothing else in years.
In spite of the coroner's certificate
of death by suicide, members of the
family declared that Mrs. Loiillard
died of heart failure. The death was
made more dramatic by the fact of
its occurrence only a few hburs after
Mr. and Mrs. Lorillard had been the
guests of Mrs. Richard Townsend at
a dinner given in honor of Lady Pag
et. In fact, it is believed that as soon
as Mrs. Lorillard arrived at her home,
shortly after midnight this mornin;,
she began to prepare for her death.
About 8.30 o'clock this morning
butler in the Lorillard residence de
tected an odor of gas. The origin of
the fumes was traced to Mrs. Loril
lard's apartments. Opening the door
to the bath room, just off her suite,
the butler was horriied to behold the
body of the mistress of the house
stretched lifeless. Her face was
turned to the mat on the floor.
Eforts to Resuscitate Futile.
The alarm brought Mr. Lorillard
from his apartments across the hall.
He and the butler carried the body
to Mrs. Lorillard's room. Mr. Loril
lard attempted to revive his wife by
means of artificial respiration. The
two doctors summoned resorted to ev
ery scientific method to restore life,
but after an hour's efforts gave up
in despair.
Shortly afterward Dr. J. Ramsey
Nevitt, the oroner, visited the Loril
lard home and ordered Deputy Cor
oner Glazebrook to perform an au
topsy. upon the completion of which
Dr. Nevitt issuled a certificate of
death by suicide by gas poisoning. He
said later that gas was escaping from
one or more jets in the bath room
when the body was discovered, and
that the condition of the lungs indi
ealed deadh 'by gas poiso'ning.
Extreme reticence is being main
tained by the Lorillard family and all
others 'who .poses in formation con
erning the sudden death. Only a few
of the most intimate friends have
been admitied -to .the home since the
news was spread of Mrs. Lorillard 's
death.
Inquiry at the residence met with
the declaration that Mrs. Lorillard
had not .committed suicide. "She
died of heart failure,'' retorted the
servant.
Dead Woman Left a Note.
Mrs. Lorillard left a note, which
ths coroner's jury has set 1, but which1
Mr. Lorillard has declined to have
made publi-c.
Mrs. Lorillard was subject to fre -
quent attacks of despondency, it ic
said.
The last person to see Mrs. Lorni
lard alive was Mr. Lorillard. He
bade her good-night as they separated
to go) to thecir apartments, after 10~
turning home .about midnight from
the Townsend residence. Mrs. Lori!
lard was seemingly in the best of sp:r
its. She had joined freely in the s
ial festivities of the evening at the
Townsend home, where had gathered
the Biazianaem,bassa,dor and Mms
Nabueo; tho Danish minister and1
Countess Moltke; the secretary of the
navy and Mrs. Meyer; Senator and!
Mr. Lodge: Senator and Mrs. Aid
rich: Senator Root, Mr. and Mrs.,
Robert Baeon. Mr. and Mrs. w. C.:
Endieott. of Boston: Ladv Clifford.,
of Enzland: Col. and Mrs. Cubn
Campbell. Col. and Mrs. McCawley,
Mr. and Mis. Clarence Moore. the
Hon. Maude Pauncefote, Commodore
Rodgers. Re.ar Admiral Cowles and
Capt. Archibald Butt, military aide
of the president.
Had Disrobed for Night.
Mrs. Lorillard haid disrobed, after
arriving home. and when found her
body was elothed in a dressing gown.
The do~r collar of diamonds she wore
at the dinner h;ad been remohved be
fore she went, to the bath room. out
the costly eircle of diamonds that
~adorned her haiir had not been dis
placed.
The Lorillards have lived at the
Bill'er place since January. Imu
meditelv preceding that time Mrs.~
Lorille rd was in Europe.
Mrs. Lorillard, before her marriage
in 1881, was Miss Carolina J. Haml
ton. She is survived by two sons, onme
of whom is now travelling in the Or
ient. and the other is in college im
New York.
Invitations were out for a lunch
eon : div a.t the L-arilla.rd home. but
we- recalled immedia.tely
):'. M. F. Cuthbert, the family ph1
.., whe maen ionight, held aloof
from any discussion that might shed
light upon the tragic affair.
"I had not been called to see Mrs.
Lorillard within the last two months,
and I was startled when the message
came to my office this morning," he
said. "I do know .that Mrs. Lorillard
was much alarmed over the condition
of her heart. She had suffered con
siderably. When she visited Paris
last summer, she sought an eminent
specialist. whom she consulted'as to
h-er condition, but when she returned
to America. she had been ill frequent
lv. I must decline to discuss any oth
er phases of the case."
FOLDED IN SHROUD.
Coroner Lays in Grave-clothes Letters
Found After Death-Funeral
Passes Gay Throng.
Washington, March 26.-In the
folds of her shroud ithe material evi-.
dence of the death seeret of Mrs.
-Pirre Lorilblaird, Jr.. is sealed with
her body tonight on ilts final journey
.to the grave. The funeral party left
the Lojiard residence at 5 o 'clock
thds afternoon for New York. At the
old home of the Lorillards at Irving,
ton-on-Hudson the casket will be in
terred tomorrow.
The departure fbom the city fur
nihed another of the d.ramatic events
which hfave chaiaActerized the deasb
by suicide of this prominent woman.
At the very bour when the first social
oirecles of the capital, in which Mrs.
LoriPiard lhad been accorded such a
prominent patrit, were crowding aristo
-crati-c Massachusetts avenue, the body
of the deceased was driven rapidly
don hat thoroughfare toward th'a
station. T-he husband, one of the fa
,mous Lorill-ards of 'e tobacco busi
ness amnd prominent cdubman and
sportsman,. and his son, Pierre, by
their own preference were the only
mourners.
The funemal eeremonies had been
conducted at 12:30 o'clock. A few of
Mrs. Lorillard's most intimate
friends, principay thotse who gather
ed with her .the night of her deat-h at
stihe dininer given by Mrs. Richard
Townsend, were present. Among those
,were the Belgian minister and Baron
ess Mneheur, Mrs. Chauncey Depew,
Mrs. Meyer, wife of the secretary of
&he navy, ad Hon. Mande Paunce
ote, daughiter of Athe former British
amasador to .this country. Rev. Ro
land Cobton Smnitih of St. Joihn's Epis
copal ehureb' officiated at the services,
wieh oeceupiad only 'ha.lf an hoar.
Shnetly afterward the most drama
tie event of tihe day occurred, when
Dr. J. Ramsey Nevitt, thre coroner,
laid asway irn the fo:lds of the sh roud
'two n'otes 'and the mnyst.eriouis trinkets
found -on Mrs. Loribl'a.rd 's body after
hr dea.t:h. Contrary to the genera!
anderstading, Mrs. Lorillard wrote
neither of the nJotes :after she return
ed fromr t.he Towvnsend dinner. It is
believed th'at the~ody. word-s she wrote
on the morning o'f her death were on
n envelope t~at contained the notes
-and t:he trinkets. They were: ''Bury
t,.ws with my' body un-opened." The
ink wvit:ih w:hich these *ords were writ
ten had been freshly smeared over
the face of the envelope. Its fresh
ness was inj 'mrked contrast with the
ink of 'the itwo notes.
An'other feet that has been brought
out is rthtat one of the no.tes was ad
dressed to Mrs. Lorillard anda was in.
'the Ihindwriting of anothe'r person.
The soccind .note ;had been written by
Mrs. LoriEa.rd evidently many days
bofore 'her -dea~th. The note to Mrs.
Lorilard is said to have been address
ed to -her in ant iniformal wa.y.
The trinkets consisted of a chain, to
which were attached some pen'dants of
lititle intri-nsic value, remind.ing those
who h-ave beheld .them of the h.igh
subnhol days of girls.
The e1iveilope in which the notes and
trinet.s were placed .was not fou.nd
r-e; hor afte.r the deMth, when the
ndertaker -wes prepari-ng the body
EVOKED LICENSE
OF SOUTHERN LIFE
"Righ. Finance and Stock Jobbing"
With Seminole Securities Com
pany Condemned.
The State.
.n i vi-ors let:gr' to the Soutdo
:2.,' : wanee' e.r:n nany vof rFay
-ter 'forv,. theQ omeer'-- o.f that eon
''rn th:s t ite license to enesaze in bu-i
in thi's St:'.te i-s revoked. Mr. Me
M,ster t:i:kes 4als -artion after severai
he3,rings~ given by him to the oficers
elf t comn.pa:nv. Although the time
for the renewal of licenses is April 1,
'the -commni'si(ner does not fe-el that he
iond wvait unti'l tthe a.nplication of
tie company swas .brought up aga:in,
bt should take some action on his
ord'er issued same time -ago to the
campan'y to show e-rnse wvhy its ii
ense should not be revoked.
The fa.ct i-n the ease are gene-ra lly
f:miiiar. The conltra0lljing interest in
'e Southern Life Insurance company
.smpoa~ bv tt Seminole Se
The G
EVER MA
0 H
One-year-old Roses, with
roots formed and its own s<
each root.
These are not dormant Ros
growing when you buv them a
positively b'oom this year.
The big Rose offer we make
Friday, April 2. will afford a
to secure some of the choicest
for early Spring planting.
4 ROSES FOR 21
1000 ROSI
On display Thursday Eveni
grown by the Americar
The Sale will be conducted'by
Barrettes, Hair Combs
M AI
eurities company of this city, t,he
piee paid for blhe stock being in ex
eess of its par v'alue and alleged to
be far .in excess of its market value.
T!he transactions of the sale were con
duited .through General Manager C. J.
Cooper of 'the insurance company and
B. W. Lacy, ithe :actuary, a-nd C. J.
Hebert, one of -the prineipal stock
promoters of -the Seminole Seearities
company. It 'was charged that enor
mous comissionls were paid in the
transfer.
When t;hese amatters came out im
the proceedinbgs b.roug!ht against the
Seminole iSecuristies .compa-ny. Mr.
Mc-Maister ordered -the -insurance comn
~pany to show eenuse ab~iy its license
shouid -not be 'reroiked. T wo or -thiree
hearings wvere heild. Mr. McMa,ster
states in his lette. that the has no de
sire .to alarm, the policyholders, but
the evidence sh'ows that enormous
commssuins 'were paid those directly
iterested in the deal. t.he c%her offi
ers .and directors of -the Southern
Life companyv bein in ignor'ance of
the details. The deail die says "is
permneiatefd wi~th evidences of stock
jobing -and hiig'h finance,'' and both
Lacy an:d Cooper are condem.ned as
men unworthy of the management of
suc:h .a coneern.
The Official Order.
The letter to t'he insurance com
pany is as follows:
"The Southern Life Insurance Com
pany, Fayvetitevidlle, N. C.
"Dear Sirs: In the matter of the
rule issued againit your company te
show eause wih'y its license to do busi
ness i-n South C'arolina should not be
revoked, retuir'nabhle on January is,
-and *by contiinuva.nce unti:l March 25:
"Due 'to 'the fact .thlat from the evi
dence before *me, and from t.he best
rbtain.able info'rm'ation, the policy
hodrs in tihe Southeuin Life Insur
tll*on .cop'any .:.re proteeted by the
deposits in the :handcls of the insurance
commissione'r of North Ca.rolina and
rt.her assets cif t>e company. I have
felt the:~t was not necessar'y to take
rnre :prompIt :aet:ion in tis matter,
nor di I desire to alarm t:he minds of
thie p)odilihMeP -'.nd uly, which would
have been done if positive aetion had
been 'taken diu:ring the time of uneasi
ness5 eu-asedi be- reveh'ations of the dleal
inz with tlh Semi nele Seenurities comn
'n-mv and the~ legtal proceedinigs inei
dent t:he:eto. Bu.t I do feel tha-t it is
a duty 'this department owes to the
pnblic to make a declaration on the
subject.
"'I nmake no criticism of t.he sever
a' general officers. thie executive com
muittee or the board of directors of the
r-opanyi. who wereC in i&gnora.nee o2
he delings bet'xwen M\r. C. .J. Coop
Cr, -tre3larer and greneral ma nge-r ot'
the company, and Mrs. (1. *J. Hebert,
reatest R
DE TO THE L
IONG, STURI
POR
perfect
>il with
es, but ID
nd will
you for -
:hance '
Roses
Ic.
BUSH ES-,
ng in our Show Window. Non
i Rose and Plant Co., of
Mr. Powell of Springfield, Ohio.
, Waist Pins, Large A
the stoek of the company, and Mr. B.
W. Lascy, v-ice .presid'ent and actuary
of the .company, with the officers of
the Seminole Seeurities company,
these four pairties Abeing 'apparently
privy to ,the tranisa,ctions of eaoh oth
er and more or less concerned therein.
Indeed, there -is no conclusive evi
dence of tihe fact that tihe other offi
ers of the comipany had any means
of knowing of .the dealings of C. J.
Cooper and B. W. Lacy, Jr., with ti:a
other parties namned. The evidene
goes to prove th'at the executive com
mittee and direectors of the Southern
Life Insarance company were inten
tionally kept in ignorance of the pur-.
pose -and extent of the dealings of C.
J. Cooper and B. W. Lacy with C. J.
Hebert and the officers of the Semi
noe Securisties domnpany.
''Without going into the debails of
the mnatter otiher tha.n to say that The
offering to miake, by C. J. Cooper, gen
eral mnanager of the Soiwhern Life In
surance company, a contract with C.
J. Hebert for t'he sa;1e of stock in the
Souhern Life Insuranee company. be
fore same 'was aiutthorized byv the
stockhodrs of tihe Southern Life In
surance comipany, and to making of
his .contraot with C. J. Hebert and
not reporti.ng the same to the e-xecu
tive committee and directors of the
company the dealings between Messrs
Cooper 'and Lacy on the one side and
Hebeir-t and 'the Seminole Securities
eampa:nv on 'the other, whereby enor
mous commisions were to be paid and
stock 'to 'be sold to the public at enor
mous priees. indicate an atter disre
gand of the pri:nciples of fair dealing
and wE1re so far permeated with the
essentials of stock jobbing and disre
nutable 'hi*gh fiinanee .as to utterl.y con
demn C. J. Cooper and B. W. Lacy as
men unvworthy of being intrusted with
{1e Wmn-ement1 of an institution of
suh sa.ered -anid conservative a nature'
f a life insurance company.
''This depa.trnent is of the opinlionl
that an .institution in thme hands of
two such men is unsafe and unrelia
ble. Therefore, the license of the
Southern Life Insuirance company to
do b.usiness in 'this Strate is hereby r-e
voked.
* ''Very truly.
''F. H.. McMaster.
''Insurance Conmmissioner.''
Decrease In Naval Stores.
South Carolina is one of the two
only States which produced less tur
pentine and rosin last y-ear than in
1907. The State's output last year
was59.800 allons of turpentinie
against 586.9.50 gallons in 1907. and
72.125 barrels of rosin against 75.
057 barrels in 1907. South Carolina
ad North Carolina are the only two
States wvhere practically all of the
turentiinlg is carried on by the old
d;1t+,.etive box Ivatem. An inter
ose Basih
A DIES OP NE
1Y R OSE BU~
ONL4Y
Ing val
L
A C
C
1B "4F
N
and mn
four e:
4
500 PERNS I
sold until Friday Morning at E
Springfield, Ohio. Each
ssortrnent of Easter 2
esting side light on this State's de-.
rease in production is the fact that
in the 'States wirere improved meth
ods, either by the cup and gutter or
the cup and apron sys-tem,.are most in
use that the greatest percentage of
increased production is shown.
The production of more than 36,
500,000 gallons of turpentine and
more than 4,000,000 bar.rels of rosin;
with a valuation of more than $14,
000,00 for the turpentine and nearly
$18,000,000 for the rosin, summarizes
the output of the naval stores indus
trv for all .Staites in 1908, according
to the preliminary report of the Unit
ed States Forest Service just com
pleted. The study was provided for
in a special appropriation of $10,000
by congress and the report contains
the most complete and accurate sta
titics ever gathlered for -the naval
stores industry in this country and
covers the production for both 1907
and 1908, giving comparative figures
for the two years.
Of the eight Southern States,- each
producing more than 200,000 gallons
of turpentine and 25,000 barrels of
rosin, Florida leads the list with 17,
030,300 gallons of turpentine in 1908
against 15,372,700 gallons in 1907, and
1,932,114 barrels of rosin in 1908
against 1,774.370 barrels in 1907.
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Lou
isana, North Carolina, South Caro
lina, and Texas follow in the order
named. The comparative report of
*the production by States is as fol
lows:
1908.
Turpentine Rosin
Gallons. Barrels.
Florida .. .....17,030,300 1,932,114
Georgia......0,47,800 1,203,059
Alabama .. .. ..3,744,050 446,909
Mississippi .. . 2.277,850 277,704
Louisiana .. .. 1,696,250 195,804
N. Carolina .... 732,300 131,907
S. Carolina .. .. 559,800 72,123
Texas .. ........200,650 28,661
36,589,000 4,288,283
1907.
Turpentine Rosin.
Gallons. Barrels.
Foida.. .....15,572,700 1,774,370
Georia .. . . .. 10,119,500 1,173.575
Alabama .... ..3.44,300 418,496
Mississippi . . . 2.232,500 235,307
Louisiana .. ....1,134100 126.346
N. Carolina . . 916,400 168,561
S. Carolina . . . 586,950 75,057
Texas .. ........ 75350 7,609
34,180,800 3,999.321
While these figures show an in
rease of 2,408.200 gallons of turpen
tie and 288.,962 barrels of rosin for
1908 over 1907. there was a marked
decrease in thre value of the product
for 1908, as compared with the pre
eding year. This was due to the great
eram in the prevailne prices for]
Offer
WBERRY
SHE3 2
aded is this lot are many lead
-eties, such as the well known
ren. Jacqueminot,
laman Cochet,
farechal Niel,
)ridesmaid,
ride,
,ouis Philippe,
,rimson Rambler,
lothilde Soupert,
apa Gontier.
lme. Chas. Wood.
any others. Put up in lots of
ach, and no lots broken.
ROSES FOR 25c.
POIR SALE,
:30. These Plants were
plant labeled and true to name.
ovelties & Post Cards
'TORE
turpentine for 1908 and the slight
decrease in the prevailing prices for
rosin during the sam-e year. The va'1
ue of the product for the two yeairs
follows:
Turpentine, 1908, $14,112,377.32;
1907, $18,283,309.93; rosin, 1908, $17,
783,509.61; 1907, $17,317,059.93; a
difference in the value of the combin
ed output of $3,704,482.93 in favor of
1907.
The figures used in determining the
value of turpentine and rosin for the
two years are based on the market
quotatics at Savannah, the recogniz
ed naval stores market of the United
States. The average price received
for turpentine manufactured in 1908
was $0.3857 per gallon, and in 1907
was $0.5349 per gallon. The average
price received for rosin in 1908 was
$4.14 per barrel and in 1907 was $4.33
per barrel.
The number of operations for the
two years were distributed among the
eight States as follows
Alabama .... ..........192 185
Florida .......... ....633 595
Georgia ... .... .......666 643
Louisiana .... .... ...25 22
Mississippi ..... ... .... 94 93
North Carolina .. .... .. 41 48
South Carolina .. ... ....37 39
Texas ..... ... ... ... ..8 4
1,696 1,629
The increase in production for 1908
over 1907 was due to more favorable
weather and labor conditons than to
increased operations. But few opera
tors -increased their operations, owing
to the disorganized conditions of the
market at the time operations com
menced. Figures upon which the re
ports of production for the two years
is based were secured by a system of
correspondence and personal visits to
the points of production by agents of
the Forest Servi~e.
NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT
I will make a final settlement of the
estate of Sumter Jones, deceased, in
the proba.te court of Newberry coun
ty on Friday, April 9, at eleven
o'cloek in the forenoon, and immed
iately thereafter apply for letters
dismissory as administrator of said
estate. All persons having claims
against .said estate will present the
same on or before said date.
John C. Goggans, C. C.,
Administrator Smter Jones, deceas
ed. 3-12-09-1tw-4t.
A-styp-to-dyn.
The best known remedy for burns,
cuts, bruises or sores of any kind on
man or beast. For sale at
Ma1j.' Drug 'tore.