New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-08-24
YOUNG ACTRESSES DESPAIR.
SEEMING TO END HER LIFE BECAUSE DESERTED III

SEEMING TO END HER LIFE BECAUSE DESERTED III
4 MARRIED M,N-TnE ATTEMri UNSUCCESSFUL
A young woman tweGty- tbrca years oil age, w's
taken TO the Fifth Street Police station oun,'aN
night partly unconscious from he effects Oh ""r
of morphine. She had taken tins in the siree'. a,o
had then gone on the piazza of mouse u. ~ ~,
1OS East Fourtl-st.. where she was iou',t ~
a policeman. She gave her name rs verona W hic
meu hack. and SAID that she German nc,l'ss
although she declined to state what theatre sie vac i
connected with. She was taken lmnicu'g,.caA
TO Bellevue HOspiial, where she WAS Pinac'u
under the charge of DR.. Anderton. She was Ntp.
walking around the ward all right, ana III ..r
morning she was somewhat better me doctor s"".
Yesterday, however. that she liad , nna ~
very narrow escape. She said nj tne hosP,,aii
that her name Eloise Lindau. and that she nau
taken four grains of morphine. winch shc hao o.
tanned nj Fo;man's drug store, in Second-ave, pe-
tween FIRST and Second-ss., aud ut oruR stoir i
F,st-ave. She said that had mad grea, uea, ~
trouble and that she didn't care to 1--we, although
she promised not 10 take any more morphine
In the morning the young woman was Visitneu ny
two women aud the stage manager OF uhe lsoi.
Theatre. In the afternoon, she ieit better
cordingly about o'clock she went away
IN company with Mr.; Scelis ana ana in I tnc
Ragetsdy, the two women who visited ncr III 'he
morning. She was taken to the latter. ioo,s, os ~
No. 81 Stuyvcsant-p ace. Mr.. Ragetsdy, no SeVef,
was intoxicated, and told Miss Lindau that ms
wife aud himself only had one room between,
them and that he didn't wish TO be distuTped
by her. Such his wlf's version OF ms CONQUER.
Mr. RaGetsdy HIMSELF however insisted mat nc M'ts
rs,
during the day and did not care In lose MS Steep:
He said that Miss Lindau was ''crazv over man,
and he knew she would cry III the night;
Miss Lindau then SAID that she would go PACK 10
the hospital and Mrs R8gefsdy GIVING her some
money, she took Thlrd-aye car for twenty sixth
ST. She felt weak. however, and got on NJ twenty
second-st and went to the Twenty-sccond STREET
Police station. She taken from there to
the hospital about 1880 p; III. j. seems that her
attempted suicide was caused by the hckenesS OF
Adolph Seclig, the handsome young headwafer OF
the Hotel List Mr.. seelig has been married abont
three years but as his wife did not grow hand-
some with age he soon tired OF her,. A
few months ago lie met Miss LIN
dau and fell in love with her. She was
brunette, rather pretty aud had a halo Of romance
about her, as she had played at different times Mt
the 1ivoli "A l}Owerv theatre. and at the mana.
She had given her attention at first to tableaus,
hut had afterwar1 been assign1d 10 MINOR paris.
ton This affair finally terminated III Seeligs leav-
inc his WIFE after Miss LIndau had gone 10 his house
at No. lS2 Esscx-st. once or twice ana abused DIS
wife for having married him. SeeliG then took rooms
in Four.h-ave., while Miss Lndau lived AT No. 81
East Nnth-st. under an assumed name. seellg had
grown tired of her, however, by fhs time. an1
wished to get nd oi her. she knew nm, ana varied
for him as he came out Of the Hotel List sun
dav night He told her that ho didn't
wish to see her and that lns ASSOCIATION win her
had been simply of business character. lie sad
that he didn't intend TO lave anything more To 90
with her Stung by tnIs answer after Scelig lett
her she procured some morphine and took 1t i'm
mcdately aftcrward.
One of the most singular things about the case is
the TACT that as soon rs n IS Lndau taken To
the hospital SHE cent for Mrs. Sccig, from whom she
had stolen a husband, and asked her to take her
away. to get her some clothes, and TO send Tor
"Adolpl" Mr.. Selig
Miss Lindau last nj ght entered the Twenty-second
street Police station and informed the Sergeant at
the desk that she had again taken morphine WIN
Bellevue Hospital. 1t Thought that she will re-
cover,