The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1879-02-07
ATTEMPTED Suicide.
Girl AttCmpss 10 Take Her own EIFo aud
IL Very seriously wounded.

The suicide mania seems TO bo spreading
at fearful rate all over the Pacific Coast,
and il is not confined TO any one slass. but
all, both rich and poor, take this method Of
getting out of their real or fancied troubles
This week We have to chronicle an attempt
made by girl only sixteen years Of ago to
terminate her existence. She is tho daugh.
tor of Mr. Gady, who lives on John Isom's
place, near Muddy Station, in this county.
IL seoms that some time last summer she be-
came enamored of young man up in that
region whom her father did not think was
just tho sort Of person for his daughter to
keep company with. and 80 no forbade her
associsting with him. For tho purpose of
making sure that his commands would be
obeyed his neighbors inform rs that he locked
his daughter up in one of tho rooms of tho
house. and placed iron bars over tho win
dows, and in this confinement abe has boon
kept until week or so ago. On Thursday
evening OF last week the girl received sever.
al severe rebukes, and having borne about all
that she thought she could. and seeing no in.
dications OF a change for tho better, sho OBJ.
tanned revolver, and stepping to tho door.
she placed it with tho muzzle to her breast
and fired. The lock not happening to work
easy, tho mu4zle was drawn down, and tho
ball, instead OF passing through the heart, as
was intended, penetrated her body just un-
der the ribs and came out at the back. Her
mother ran TO the door and asked her what
the boys were shooting at out in the yard,
and tho girl replied that it was not the boys
that she had shot herself. She was taken
in and DIR. Williams, of Harrisburg. called.
He examined the wound. but could not tell
at that time whether death would result OF
not Passing in the way that the ball did, the
wound must be serious, and it will be almost
q wonder il the girl RECEIVERS. We under
stand the feeling in the neighborhood is very
bitter against tho girls father on account Of
his infamous and almost inhumAn treatment
Of his daughter, and were il not = law-abid.
ing community he would have had at least a
coat Of tar aud Feathers ere this Although
| the man with whom tho girl wished to keep
company was probably not what he ought 10
be, tho father had no right whatever To act
in the almost brutish way in which he has to
enforce his authority. II is said that even
the mother Of the girl ably seconds her huH.
bands acts. and takes fully ~ much part in
the persecution. What can DO their object
in rendering the gisl's life miserable, no one
can tell; il cannot be for the purpose Of pro
teoting her from the man for whom sho had
formed the attachment. for ho has been IN
Eastern oregon for months. but certain it il
that they have prosecuted their daughter uA'
til life is burden TO her. This ia shown by
the fact that this is the third time abe has
attempted suicide. They probably regret
their action now, and in case their daughter
dies, hers VIII be the most desirable lot oi
all, for her parents cannot help but realiz'
the fact that their own heartless and Grimm
al conduct was the cause Of her rash act.