Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-05-17
A Woman Hangs Herself With n
Sheet-The Trngical End of a
Life of InEilmy and Crime, SC.

! About four o'clock on Saturday after
noon prisoner in the county Jail, named
Adaline Grishaber alas Ada Mcdowell,
hung herself in the corner of the part de-
voted to the female convicts. A brief his
tory of the life OF the suicide and her tragi-
cal end, as we learn them from sheriff Mic
ola, is as follOws:y -lE aa ,ray.. ,ali Il
% Sometime overa year ago she was seduced
at her home in Salem, Columbiana, county,
in this State, byia married man from this
city,. She was afterwards brought to this
city by the same man, and placed in the no
torious house of Augusta Fay. q She subse-
quently worked as q servant girl for Mrs.
Butterfield and Jim Green. Sometime in
February she was arrested by the police on
charge of stealinga a gold watch and chain
from Mrs. Buttertield, but on protesting
penitence and surrenderiDg the property
she was taken back and remained about
| two weeks, when she was again arrested for
| stealing furs, bed-spreads, and various other
| articles, from Mrs. Butter6eld. She had an
examination befOr Justice Brand, and was
bound over to court on charge OF grand
larceny. Charges of theft were. also pre-
ferred against her by Jim Green. 4 .rra5
She was placed in Jail on the 10th of
March, and since that time, with the excep-
ton of few days, has been the only fe-
very much of being lonesome, and often eN-
| pressed the wish that the officers would
catch some other hard case, so that she
could have company. u.. ...rt .t.-"
! On Saturday afternoon about four o'clock
Mr.. Smith, the turnkey of the Jail, was
| going his rounds, putting in coal and fixing
| up for the night. As he opened the door to
the ward for females, he discovered Ade-
line suspended by the neck by sheet. AS
soon as possible he took her down and placed
her on bed in her room. DIR. Reeder was
called in and every eXertion made to resus-
citate her, but it was too late. She could
not have beemlong dead when discovered,
as she was quite warm.
From the appearance OF things in the cor
| ridvr and room occupied by hcr, IL 10 evI-
dent she went deliberately to work to take
her own life. She took sheet from the
bed, and mounting stool had fastened one
end of 1T to the iron grating under the sky
light over the corridor, and on the other end
| OF the sheet she made aslipping moose. The
sheet was, so long that when she put her
neck in the moose she was forced to get
down on her knees to draw it tight enough
to strangle her. !'' Q .pH'iH All u. 1919
4 When discovered she was on her knees,
her body thrown forward, and the knot, of
the moose at the back of her head.
| She had never been heard by any one con-
nected with the jail to express a desire to
take her own life, and generally appeared
very cheerful considering the s,circum-
stances. During the day she was talking
andlaughing with persons outside the jail.
Her father visited her day or two ago,
2 and, 1t is said, abused her in d most shame
full manner. He advised her, if she thought
she would have to go to the Penitentiary, to
make Way with herself. He mad been sum
moned here as witness before the court
against her, as she had sent some of che
stolen articles to him. Shortly after she
had committed the fatal deed her father
called at the Sheriff's office and asked If he
/ could see his daughter again. The Sheriff
| informed him he could, but that she had
4 hung herself. THE oldobrute remarked,
j without heleast showpf paternal affection,
or shadow of respect, for his dead child,
that it was good thing, she was now out
| Of the way, and would not trouble him any
more, and added, "Pve been here twoidays
! at my own expense, and now won't get any
witness fees,n Sheriff Nicola ordered the
inhuman wretch ont Of his office in no mild
| terms. Az 'i'-si"' =" " s'iAHPy A.
The suicide is a large well-formed wo;
man, about twenty-five years OF age, and
may have been, before her career OF infamyI
4 'tbossessed' Of an ordinary share Of beauty
j but herllife of crime has left sad. traces or
i Coroner Prentice was notified, but di(
not think 1t necessary to hola ah Inquest