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relfi-)joy-a re tihoom-ir an’ OVFAMILY CLAIMS Till; BODY.Remains of Joseph Grosswcll Taken toCambridge- ' .. vXa11)■.CvoV n0ViiCThe body of Joseph Cross well, the young college professor who ngor/killed Miss Mol 1 i0 Powell, his yy a I sweetheart, and lb on corn ml Mod g on suicide a!* Holla, Mo , last week, h i m I was a 0 n t to b i s h 0 m 0 a Ii Ca m -bridge, Mass., after a simple funeral service on the depot plat-J°ss|form jus I. before the arrival of the train.“fa The funeral of Miss Powell has that not yet, been held, Young Hogers, rfod to whom she was engaged io be f°rlt; married, arrived at; Holla Thurs-Id ay a n d w a s al moat p v 0 s t v a to d thisjvvith grief when led into the *♦ ^ pres on co of Lhe dead girl who ‘h°r had promised to be his bride. anlt;2 An executor took charge of all 11 by t.ho belongings of the young ooi~ feet lege i r,i struct or. Ho found amoiig ^’iglthem many relics of M.ollie )ear' Powell, but not a word of ex-sho plantation for the criino. Miss }ia9 I Powell's picture was in Ordss- do A vvell’s watch, and there was a oar I dance program showing that out use 0i' twenty-four dances at a party I last winter ten had boon with hor. Ther0 wor0 also some oI her handkerchiefs, a rosette fromher dress and other remembrances.Professor Ladd told how it happened that Joseph Orosswell, the eastern college man, came to Holla in the southern part of Missouri, whore his life had such a tragic end.“In the fail of 11)00,*' said the director of the school of mines, “we wore disappointed in a man whom we had employed as instructor in shop work and drawing. There was a vacanay and I telegraphed to the Massachusetts School of Technology as Icing them to son d a m a n, T b eyreoommended Grosswcll. He hadjust been graduated high in his classes and ho was very young, n01 in0 r a than 22 years. H e was a very intelligent young f e How and very a a. ii s fa c to r y.I think that perhaps ho hadstudied a little too hard in college, being so young, but ho was recovering all right. He had. no friends or companions among men and none among women excepting in the family of | 5Mrs. .Powell/ I think his only confidant was Miss Power). fie was with her a great deal and I supposed th at h e wa s g oi ng to marry her before long, althoughhe never talked about it.“I presume it was his first love affair. He probably did not real to what it would be to him to be d Isappoi n tod i n 10vo. X th i n k h0 is to bo pilled rather than despised.” .5
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Moberly Democrat
Moberly, Missouri, US
Sun, Sep 29, 1901
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