The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-10-27

A Fearful LeOlI-s-The Ruin of n Young
GirI--.Attempta at SeIE.De4tPuctiOn-.-
She Jumps from Third-stOry VIM
dow---;The Tn Story Of Her y Wrongs and
t.ts tiitlllS5se CHICAGO, oetober25.
Few cases have of late occurred in
our city so well calculated to excite
sympathy with the sufferer, and intig-
nation against tho betrayer of inno-
cence, as one which was enacted Mt tho
headquarters of the police yesterday.
In the last issue of the Republican we
gave the particulars of the arrest of u
young woman named Blackburn,
charged with stealing the sum of $500
from n man named Isaac.I Niles. The
parties had been stopping at the Wayer-
ly House, on Kinzie street. The money
was given to'the girl for safe-keeping,
and She told Miles one day upon his re-
turn that the room had been entered,
the trunk robbed and the money taken.
Shortly after she was arrested by officer
Douglas, at Aurora, on suspicion of be-
ing the guilty party, and upon being
brought back to. this city $3.50 were
found. neatly sowed up in the skirt of
her dress, while q watchl was also re-
covered for which she had paid $50.
She was consequently lodged in the
W .llNtlll
which was to have taken place yester-
day afternoon. n
In the upper story of the central sta
tton is n comfortable room supplied
with two beds and furniture, and in this
room Miss Black burn was placed in
stead of being confined in the lock-up,
in the basement. Here shc remained
quietly enough until five o'clock yes
to-day morning, when the station
keeper, Mr.. Gillespie, knocked at lher
door and asked what she desired for
breakfast. The girl had already arisen
and dressed herself, and, aSSshe bade
the officer enter, she told him she was
not hungry, and desired nothing to
Gat3 sAklsoon ashe hnd turned the key
in the lock, the girl turned TO the win
:dowg remoVeda the sash; threw out n
mattrnss from one of the beds and
wrapping blankets about her head leap
cd to the ground "a distance of more
than forty foet beneath. AT the foot of
tho wall underneath tho window luy an
old counter Mt least twenty feet in
length and fragments of boards piled
across it. Upon these the poor girl
struck with a terrible shock, and for mn
instant lay upon the ground apparent
ly IileleSS.j How She escaped instant
death seems almost miraculous. Re
but in an instant nfter fell to the ground
fainting. From this place she crawled
nsdistance of some twenty-five feet and
hid beneath tho sidewalk, which atthis
place is about five feet above the level
of tho area Into which she precipitnteq
herself, and my there nearly two hours
before sho was discovered.
The officer missed her within half an
hour after first summonfng her in the
morning. IIt+was yet scarcely light, and !
he. Mt once Instituted search, which was
prosecuted nearly two hours before she
was discovered. The method of her
flight WINS OF course apparent from the
position of thematt atttass and bed-cloth-
Ing, but all believed she had clambered1
down by the ligh timing rod which hung
in close proximity to the window.
2 She was carried into the station, re-
placed in the room which she had pre-
viously occupied, and medical attend-s
ance Rt once summoned. An exnmnia-1
tion proved that no bones We're broken,
but her internal injuries were SO severe
TINT the attend ling p hysiciap ppron nounced
her situation very Precnrtops and her
recovery exceedingly doubtful One
ankle was bndly sprained and her back
and LEFT side severely bruised. Yester-l
day afternoon she Appeared much bet
ter, md though suffering at times SCI
we're agony, told. her pit ttul story : >. a I
Her name Is Ellen blackburn, and
her age 10, Her parents reside in Du-