Cause of death: suicide by drowning in Niagara Falls
Disappearance of Storm V. Boyd still Niagara whirlpool mystery
No trace of Syracusan's body results from investigation at Falls
Clothing is found
Relatives, prostrated over loss, lay possible suicide to business worry
The suppositious death of Storm V. Boyd, Syracuse architect, university graduate, former army officer, happy husband and father whose body is believed to be in the whirlpool of Niagara, is doubly inexplicable 24 hours after the finding of his top clothing at the brink of the American falls.
His wife, Mrs. Hazel Cady Boyd, daugher of the late Judge William G. Cady, is prostrated at the home of her mother, Mrs. Jennie L. Cady, 729 West Onondaga street. His sister, Miss Margaret Boyd of Ovid, is united with his wife's relatives in the saying his family relations were ideal.
Dread of impending physical and mental debility, or possible unknown business worries, are conjectured as motives that might have driven him at 34 to take his own life.
He is admittedly missing, although report of the fact did not become (unreadable) at Niagara Falls Tuesday. E.L. Jones of Pittsfield, Mass., a tourist, picked up a raincoat and a gray fedora hat on the lawn a few feet from the edge of the river bank just above the falls. In the pockets of the raincoat were found cards and papers indicating the identity of the owner.
Immediate investigation by police officials followed the find. Shoeprints led to the guard rail on the river bank.
It was assumed that the owner of the clothing had jumped from the rail and been swept over the cataract. Watch was at once instituted over the whirlpool, and maintained today, but no signs of the presence of a body in the swirling waters were reported in 24 hours.
The Boyds recently returned to Syracuse. He planned to start in business here following a vacation in the country. Apprehension concering his health caused him to submit himself to obervation by Dr. O.H. Cobb, superintendent of the Syracuse State Institution.
Dr. Cobb says his patient was entirely himself Sunday before retiring. Monday morning the household has alarmed to find the guest room vacated. It was apparent the occupant had left at an early hour. The hunt for him was commenced and conducted quiet, as it was thought possible the patient's nervousness had led him to seek surcease in a long walk or an impromptu jaunt to the country.
The ravages of influenza and the confinement of nearly two years as a personnel officer in the service are blamed for the nervous reactions recounted. In February a sister of the young officer and another inseparable friend both succumbed to the epidemic. The brother was attacked a little later, and he did not win back to his old vitality and buoyancy after the triple blow.
Ostensibly the victim of the tragedy went to the falls undercover of night, divested himself of his outer garments and threw himself into the awful flood to his death.
His sister at Ovid entirely rejects the idea that Storm would resort to subterfuge of suicide in order to hide himself and drop out of the world that knew him.
It is only a fornight since she had a letter from him. Every line of it soudned with good cheer, she said. Plans of a vacation of some extended length in the country and news of his adored wife and baby filled the pages.
The only possible reason to which she can ascribe his hypothetical suicide, unless to collapsed health, is financial worry, with which he did not acquaint her.
Mrs. Jennie L. Cady, showing traces of the effects of the news, saw a representative of the press at her home, and said she could not understand the fate of her son-in-law if it is borne out by developments. He and her daughter showed unmarred devotion toward each other in their home lives, she said, and idolized their baby.
The husband and father made no secret of his apprehensions concerning his health, but seemed to regard the subject from an entirely normal viewpoint.
His visit with his friend, Dr. Cobb, to confirm or banish his fears is pointed to as indication of his healthful view-point personally. Friends are at an absolute loss to account for the headlong rush to his death indicated. There is absolutely no hint of a dark mystery in the case.
Just prior to coming here a fortnight ago as director of an industrial employmenht program in Springfield, Mass., the ex-officer subjected his faculties and his physique to severe and sustained strain. It is believed he simply reached the breaking point Sunday and resisted no longer.
Storm Vanderzee Boyd was graduated from the Department of Architecture in Syracuse University in 1907, and shortly afterward married Miss Hazel F. Cady, daughter of the then county judge, since deceased. He had high intellectual ability and social gifts in a marked degree.
Syracuse Herald, Wednesday October 15, 1919, pages 1 & 6
Disappearance of Storm V. Boyd still Niagara whirlpool mystery
No trace of Syracusan's body results from investigation at Falls
Clothing is found
Relatives, prostrated over loss, lay possible suicide to business worry
The suppositious death of Storm V. Boyd, Syracuse architect, university graduate, former army officer, happy husband and father whose body is believed to be in the whirlpool of Niagara, is doubly inexplicable 24 hours after the finding of his top clothing at the brink of the American falls.
His wife, Mrs. Hazel Cady Boyd, daugher of the late Judge William G. Cady, is prostrated at the home of her mother, Mrs. Jennie L. Cady, 729 West Onondaga street. His sister, Miss Margaret Boyd of Ovid, is united with his wife's relatives in the saying his family relations were ideal.
Dread of impending physical and mental debility, or possible unknown business worries, are conjectured as motives that might have driven him at 34 to take his own life.
He is admittedly missing, although report of the fact did not become (unreadable) at Niagara Falls Tuesday. E.L. Jones of Pittsfield, Mass., a tourist, picked up a raincoat and a gray fedora hat on the lawn a few feet from the edge of the river bank just above the falls. In the pockets of the raincoat were found cards and papers indicating the identity of the owner.
Immediate investigation by police officials followed the find. Shoeprints led to the guard rail on the river bank.
It was assumed that the owner of the clothing had jumped from the rail and been swept over the cataract. Watch was at once instituted over the whirlpool, and maintained today, but no signs of the presence of a body in the swirling waters were reported in 24 hours.
The Boyds recently returned to Syracuse. He planned to start in business here following a vacation in the country. Apprehension concering his health caused him to submit himself to obervation by Dr. O.H. Cobb, superintendent of the Syracuse State Institution.
Dr. Cobb says his patient was entirely himself Sunday before retiring. Monday morning the household has alarmed to find the guest room vacated. It was apparent the occupant had left at an early hour. The hunt for him was commenced and conducted quiet, as it was thought possible the patient's nervousness had led him to seek surcease in a long walk or an impromptu jaunt to the country.
The ravages of influenza and the confinement of nearly two years as a personnel officer in the service are blamed for the nervous reactions recounted. In February a sister of the young officer and another inseparable friend both succumbed to the epidemic. The brother was attacked a little later, and he did not win back to his old vitality and buoyancy after the triple blow.
Ostensibly the victim of the tragedy went to the falls undercover of night, divested himself of his outer garments and threw himself into the awful flood to his death.
His sister at Ovid entirely rejects the idea that Storm would resort to subterfuge of suicide in order to hide himself and drop out of the world that knew him.
It is only a fornight since she had a letter from him. Every line of it soudned with good cheer, she said. Plans of a vacation of some extended length in the country and news of his adored wife and baby filled the pages.
The only possible reason to which she can ascribe his hypothetical suicide, unless to collapsed health, is financial worry, with which he did not acquaint her.
Mrs. Jennie L. Cady, showing traces of the effects of the news, saw a representative of the press at her home, and said she could not understand the fate of her son-in-law if it is borne out by developments. He and her daughter showed unmarred devotion toward each other in their home lives, she said, and idolized their baby.
The husband and father made no secret of his apprehensions concerning his health, but seemed to regard the subject from an entirely normal viewpoint.
His visit with his friend, Dr. Cobb, to confirm or banish his fears is pointed to as indication of his healthful view-point personally. Friends are at an absolute loss to account for the headlong rush to his death indicated. There is absolutely no hint of a dark mystery in the case.
Just prior to coming here a fortnight ago as director of an industrial employmenht program in Springfield, Mass., the ex-officer subjected his faculties and his physique to severe and sustained strain. It is believed he simply reached the breaking point Sunday and resisted no longer.
Storm Vanderzee Boyd was graduated from the Department of Architecture in Syracuse University in 1907, and shortly afterward married Miss Hazel F. Cady, daughter of the then county judge, since deceased. He had high intellectual ability and social gifts in a marked degree.
Syracuse Herald, Wednesday October 15, 1919, pages 1 & 6
Cause of death: suicide by drowning in Niagara Falls
Disappearance of Storm V. Boyd still Niagara whirlpool mystery
No trace of Syracusan's body results from investigation at Falls
Clothing is found
Relatives, prostrated over loss, lay possible suicide to business worry
The suppositious death of Storm V. Boyd, Syracuse architect, university graduate, former army officer, happy husband and father whose body is believed to be in the whirlpool of Niagara, is doubly inexplicable 24 hours after the finding of his top clothing at the brink of the American falls.
His wife, Mrs. Hazel Cady Boyd, daugher of the late Judge William G. Cady, is prostrated at the home of her mother, Mrs. Jennie L. Cady, 729 West Onondaga street. His sister, Miss Margaret Boyd of Ovid, is united with his wife's relatives in the saying his family relations were ideal.
Dread of impending physical and mental debility, or possible unknown business worries, are conjectured as motives that might have driven him at 34 to take his own life.
He is admittedly missing, although report of the fact did not become (unreadable) at Niagara Falls Tuesday. E.L. Jones of Pittsfield, Mass., a tourist, picked up a raincoat and a gray fedora hat on the lawn a few feet from the edge of the river bank just above the falls. In the pockets of the raincoat were found cards and papers indicating the identity of the owner.
Immediate investigation by police officials followed the find. Shoeprints led to the guard rail on the river bank.
It was assumed that the owner of the clothing had jumped from the rail and been swept over the cataract. Watch was at once instituted over the whirlpool, and maintained today, but no signs of the presence of a body in the swirling waters were reported in 24 hours.
The Boyds recently returned to Syracuse. He planned to start in business here following a vacation in the country. Apprehension concering his health caused him to submit himself to obervation by Dr. O.H. Cobb, superintendent of the Syracuse State Institution.
Dr. Cobb says his patient was entirely himself Sunday before retiring. Monday morning the household has alarmed to find the guest room vacated. It was apparent the occupant had left at an early hour. The hunt for him was commenced and conducted quiet, as it was thought possible the patient's nervousness had led him to seek surcease in a long walk or an impromptu jaunt to the country.
The ravages of influenza and the confinement of nearly two years as a personnel officer in the service are blamed for the nervous reactions recounted. In February a sister of the young officer and another inseparable friend both succumbed to the epidemic. The brother was attacked a little later, and he did not win back to his old vitality and buoyancy after the triple blow.
Ostensibly the victim of the tragedy went to the falls undercover of night, divested himself of his outer garments and threw himself into the awful flood to his death.
His sister at Ovid entirely rejects the idea that Storm would resort to subterfuge of suicide in order to hide himself and drop out of the world that knew him.
It is only a fornight since she had a letter from him. Every line of it soudned with good cheer, she said. Plans of a vacation of some extended length in the country and news of his adored wife and baby filled the pages.
The only possible reason to which she can ascribe his hypothetical suicide, unless to collapsed health, is financial worry, with which he did not acquaint her.
Mrs. Jennie L. Cady, showing traces of the effects of the news, saw a representative of the press at her home, and said she could not understand the fate of her son-in-law if it is borne out by developments. He and her daughter showed unmarred devotion toward each other in their home lives, she said, and idolized their baby.
The husband and father made no secret of his apprehensions concerning his health, but seemed to regard the subject from an entirely normal viewpoint.
His visit with his friend, Dr. Cobb, to confirm or banish his fears is pointed to as indication of his healthful view-point personally. Friends are at an absolute loss to account for the headlong rush to his death indicated. There is absolutely no hint of a dark mystery in the case.
Just prior to coming here a fortnight ago as director of an industrial employmenht program in Springfield, Mass., the ex-officer subjected his faculties and his physique to severe and sustained strain. It is believed he simply reached the breaking point Sunday and resisted no longer.
Storm Vanderzee Boyd was graduated from the Department of Architecture in Syracuse University in 1907, and shortly afterward married Miss Hazel F. Cady, daughter of the then county judge, since deceased. He had high intellectual ability and social gifts in a marked degree.
Syracuse Herald, Wednesday October 15, 1919, pages 1 & 6
Disappearance of Storm V. Boyd still Niagara whirlpool mystery
No trace of Syracusan's body results from investigation at Falls
Clothing is found
Relatives, prostrated over loss, lay possible suicide to business worry
The suppositious death of Storm V. Boyd, Syracuse architect, university graduate, former army officer, happy husband and father whose body is believed to be in the whirlpool of Niagara, is doubly inexplicable 24 hours after the finding of his top clothing at the brink of the American falls.
His wife, Mrs. Hazel Cady Boyd, daugher of the late Judge William G. Cady, is prostrated at the home of her mother, Mrs. Jennie L. Cady, 729 West Onondaga street. His sister, Miss Margaret Boyd of Ovid, is united with his wife's relatives in the saying his family relations were ideal.
Dread of impending physical and mental debility, or possible unknown business worries, are conjectured as motives that might have driven him at 34 to take his own life.
He is admittedly missing, although report of the fact did not become (unreadable) at Niagara Falls Tuesday. E.L. Jones of Pittsfield, Mass., a tourist, picked up a raincoat and a gray fedora hat on the lawn a few feet from the edge of the river bank just above the falls. In the pockets of the raincoat were found cards and papers indicating the identity of the owner.
Immediate investigation by police officials followed the find. Shoeprints led to the guard rail on the river bank.
It was assumed that the owner of the clothing had jumped from the rail and been swept over the cataract. Watch was at once instituted over the whirlpool, and maintained today, but no signs of the presence of a body in the swirling waters were reported in 24 hours.
The Boyds recently returned to Syracuse. He planned to start in business here following a vacation in the country. Apprehension concering his health caused him to submit himself to obervation by Dr. O.H. Cobb, superintendent of the Syracuse State Institution.
Dr. Cobb says his patient was entirely himself Sunday before retiring. Monday morning the household has alarmed to find the guest room vacated. It was apparent the occupant had left at an early hour. The hunt for him was commenced and conducted quiet, as it was thought possible the patient's nervousness had led him to seek surcease in a long walk or an impromptu jaunt to the country.
The ravages of influenza and the confinement of nearly two years as a personnel officer in the service are blamed for the nervous reactions recounted. In February a sister of the young officer and another inseparable friend both succumbed to the epidemic. The brother was attacked a little later, and he did not win back to his old vitality and buoyancy after the triple blow.
Ostensibly the victim of the tragedy went to the falls undercover of night, divested himself of his outer garments and threw himself into the awful flood to his death.
His sister at Ovid entirely rejects the idea that Storm would resort to subterfuge of suicide in order to hide himself and drop out of the world that knew him.
It is only a fornight since she had a letter from him. Every line of it soudned with good cheer, she said. Plans of a vacation of some extended length in the country and news of his adored wife and baby filled the pages.
The only possible reason to which she can ascribe his hypothetical suicide, unless to collapsed health, is financial worry, with which he did not acquaint her.
Mrs. Jennie L. Cady, showing traces of the effects of the news, saw a representative of the press at her home, and said she could not understand the fate of her son-in-law if it is borne out by developments. He and her daughter showed unmarred devotion toward each other in their home lives, she said, and idolized their baby.
The husband and father made no secret of his apprehensions concerning his health, but seemed to regard the subject from an entirely normal viewpoint.
His visit with his friend, Dr. Cobb, to confirm or banish his fears is pointed to as indication of his healthful view-point personally. Friends are at an absolute loss to account for the headlong rush to his death indicated. There is absolutely no hint of a dark mystery in the case.
Just prior to coming here a fortnight ago as director of an industrial employmenht program in Springfield, Mass., the ex-officer subjected his faculties and his physique to severe and sustained strain. It is believed he simply reached the breaking point Sunday and resisted no longer.
Storm Vanderzee Boyd was graduated from the Department of Architecture in Syracuse University in 1907, and shortly afterward married Miss Hazel F. Cady, daughter of the then county judge, since deceased. He had high intellectual ability and social gifts in a marked degree.
Syracuse Herald, Wednesday October 15, 1919, pages 1 & 6
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