The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-12-06
RAsnLY IMpoR1uNArE,
nut Not Gone 10 Her Death-FutIle At
tempt OF Mrs. Ellen Medleu TO Ihro"
Down Life's burden.

mt Not Gone 10 Her Death-Futile At
tempt OF Mrs. Ellen hedleu 10 Thro"
Down Life's burden.
1t was gossiped around the city yes
terday, that a woman living in Centre
Wheeling, who was q wife and mother,
had yainly attempted to end her life by
swallowing poison.
During the afternoon reporter called
at the "Parker Block" a.large brick tene.
meut house on Main street, opposite the
Belmont mill, where it was said the
woman resided. He was shown through
an open RrChway in the north side OF the
building, which he entered from an alley.
This led into wretChed, dirty, squalid
looking courtyard In the centre OF the
tenement, The paved court was as wet,
sooty and smoke.begrimed as any dissipa'
ted town pig would wish TO see. Ascend.
ing one oil the wooden stairways which led
to the second story porch, while many
windows and doors were oil stuck full oil
the eyes and faces OF the inmates, and some
rude youngsters romped below, the re-
porter was directed to No. 10. The room
was a small, dismal, unexpected one, and
was half filled with two beds. Upon one
OF these lay the would.be suicide, while
her eldest daughter, girl OF about Jour
teen, sat sobbing upon the other, anC
calculating. "Mother, you bad no business
i to do it, 30 you hadn't"
The woman gave her name rs Eller
Medlen. Her age is Sc years. Her bus
band, William Medlen, said he worked a
the ash business in the La Belle Mill, ant
, earned 81 80 per day. They have three
children.
. Said Mrs. Medlen: ~ bought dime
worth OF laudanum at Moenkemellor'
/, drug store, about O'Clock on saturda!
. night, and took about half OF it. want
/ ed 10 die, but 1t wasn't poverty that mad
3 me do it. The Sunday Leader said 1t wa
t poverty; that's lie. 1t is trouble in thu
. family. Well, may as well tell you wha
il is. 1t is an intimacy between my hus
a band and my sister, Miss Elizabeth Coon
2 rad alias Lizzie Zoarn. This sister live
at Mr.. Mintons, on Judge Thompson
, place out in the country. Her real nam
y is Elizabeth Conrad, but she is now goin
under the name OF Zoarn. That's he
picture there above tho mantel. hav
: known about this intimacy TO a certaint,,
for about week; and had suspected
J. even before that. Why on last Sunday
!. laid out on the porch all night while the
were together. could not stand tn
: trouble any longer and so | thought
would end 1t by taking poison. didn'
:, succeed this time, but I'll do it again
d Some OF the neighbors came in when the
d. heard was SICK and gave me strong col
= fee which made me throw the poison uI
; There haye neutrality-suspicious. to SCENE.
;. The family has been in the city abou
two months, having moved from the coun
9 try near Elm Grove. When Mrs. Medle
Q was asked to give her maiden nam
!. she refused, saying that she did not wan
, her people TO hear about this trouble. Sh
;. gave the name, however, without knowing
9 i, II she gave her sisters true cognomen
. The woman talked in sort OF griml
cheerful manner and appeared in fai
n way to recover. The husband, William
n did not exhibit much emotion about tn
! business. He made vague referenc
to drug stores in general, and said he wa
\ going to put the law in force against then
Q for selling poison.
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