Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-09-26
4 Nife's Insanity .
NeE York sun, September %
Harriet OsbOrpe. or aa she SOM Ell

fthfTlet O5DOTDet OF dA rhe sOAuebiA'' >
calls herelf. Hester Jane Morrill,, has at
tempted a. commit suicide seven times
since Ju'y sth. A lew months ago
Sue lived IN tenement on sl1tn
street, aad supported her aged mother
by working e. n sesmstrsss- She was then
twenty-thTee years Of age and very beautiful ;
her long golden hair flowing 70 her WslNtr ana
her ligbt blue eyes dancing with happiness
In June Inst, despite ner mothers objections,
she gave her hand 10 marriage 10 Jonu MOT
u J, a young man who lived in the same block,
and an old schOOlmate and friend Of her child
hood. soon after the marriage several young
women In the house HTIau ged 10 have a small
parrv aud celebrate Ig- event Harriet was
tle lie Of the part ... . beer having been
provided, the party vas continued until q
late hour, aud when the young husband
reached home he Teprimanded his wIic FOR
drinking. but she uid not heed him, anu the
party 1ad u be broken up. Morrill, went 10
MS room, aud according to his wife'S story,
beat her until shc was Olack anu blue. soon
Ritcr HaT-lal was taken III ana heI IN M De-
c me afic ted. Then her husband abandoned
her and weut y Virginia. The young WIFE
Oa her recovery, euueavOTed TO obtain EN-
piCymeBt, but without success. The abeT-
alto Of mlI returned, and her mO5her W, 5
Obliged u lock her IN her room. On the
morning Of July 2gtn, Harriet escaped from
her lOOn a1d wsnds dsTed aDsenty in the
str, els, and late Ia the evening, strsylng on
the pier a. the loot Of Delaney street, she Was
about TO leap into the river, but hOundsman
WanIty prevt nted her. Having been taken
TO the DelinCcy.ktrett police station, she gave
her name Rud residence, and her mother was
rent lOT. buI previous 70 utI ulOLLel aEIl-
val she was detectet in the act o! dTiu king
from q small Vial, sud on iCarchinE her The
TOllce found two small bottles Of laudanum.
[ nder the advice OF Captain Jlinchy, heT
mother TOOE her home, with the intention OF
sending her 10 the BiackWelIs Island asylum
fOI ne insane. On the next day Harriet sgain
escaped, and late in the evening was rescued
by a civilian as she was about TO Jump into
the river, near Clinton street. CAP tain 81 ri
vain sent her home, and she was again locked
in a room. Two days later she again escaped,
and at about ten O'Clock in the evening was
taken TO the Twenty-secOnd street pOlice-sta-
on hy OffiCeT Quigley, to whom she had been
hanuJd over by two young men who said she
bad tried To- ump into the river from The foot
OF Eighteenth street. She was sent 10 Belle.
vue hospital. In that institution she escaped
from the night watcGman, but was
caught as she was tOttering on the edge
Of Lha wharf about TO plunge in the Tiver
Theu IN her room in the Hospital she tried 10
open "a artery by biting her wrist, and the
attendants hs 4 trouble with her while they
We're dressing the wound as she tore Of the
banuages a. fast as they We're bound on. 1t
was deCiC C 10 be dangerous to leave her to
herself, and she was bound hand and ioOiraud
consigned ID q guarded cell. Dn the next day
she was sent TO the blackwells S Island asy Ium
for the insane. A fOrtnl ght Ia er she was sent
home as cured. ON the morning OF September
Sth Harriet went out and in tie evening an
Off cer took her 10 the Charles street police
stat on. she told the sergeant, 8tt,r cOnSid-
cradle queSti ming, that she had taken Paris
green in the morning, sui phste OF zinc in the
afternoon, and dose OF lsudanum just bsfOre
her arrest. She was sent to Bellevue hospital,
and stomach pump saved her lie. After
two DAYS treatment she was discharged. A
week ago Harriet escaped rom the custody Of
her mother, and was found late in the even.
ing wandering in he streets. The physician
of the Eldnoge street pOlice-station asCeT-
tanned that she had taken an excessive dose
of lsudanum. AutidoteS were administered,
and in the morn ing she was taken home by
her mother. she still says she will yet COM
NIT suicide.