Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-09-16
DRIVEN TO DEATH.
DESPERATE ATTEMPT 10 END LIFE
OF MISERY.
Luiie Rogers, a Young Wife of Ten
Months, Tires of Existence and
Shoots Herself Three
Times.

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o;,b. o,o,ooL ,,st
Aooul quTi'ei III r., EoS, VI
night le,eP'ioio N". - ~,m,oI
Ing, stated llIat q =" rn ." ~" e.
to commit sI''t TSo"Tns s,roa,s ,a-
eh'e'nt" =" a~ h snot md fonnd a
sor.eI M wa who wero d;scnss;n"
cto"u All ,ho, couIJ hn Iaarnaj
tle "n"' ,hat man and woman had
nDaU S.en stanIing by the old Smith
ma,v ,oItino very loudiv tooether.
a., srjS"riv y uisioI shot was heard
.""' nam ran aysv and two more shots
vac @raI and thyp The woman sank TO
%t'o l',J p,r,ies in ,he vicinity inn.
'n' iia,sIy rushed towards her and found
,"., w',,,,n with a revolver held TIGHTLY
~ ,"y hand and bleeding freely from
,yn uyly wounds in her breast and one
in Nor arm.
C,o,ros r.moved n q nbvS;ciar,s of-
eaDnoar hy and a carrioga summoned
~ Iaarniny these particulars the re-
,'ar,ar zoe soon al he snryeonis office
rrhsrc he fopnd that the attemnted sui.
c;Js was a voung woman named Lulie
SL,,b.rt NEE Ropars At this finn, q car.
rae arrived from n neiJhborino stand
and tho woman was removed 70 il The
nhvsri,n and renorter entered and wera
ra,,",Jiy J,iynr ~ the home of the girI's
49,, f..har NJ G.orua Pnbar.s No
| ola N,,,oIpcn street. By the time the
r~aI,,, r,o,,,oJ III pla,., tha airl had
t,ir;od from luss ri blond She was
Ia mon a c6n,h aud ,oon r.gained
"" 49," omJ 49,. Lor Einnd.
oo',,i So ,.ol rronar-
.or. td m"G .ny an a~x.un;,,idn and
n,r;no ,I;, t;n,n ".. ronortor
ptoD A. ~Iniin.ir, fa,.,s.
r. oil i Nor anita tven.
III and varv
v oi"',Lin I., i, isri
ifLois whot could hS called GOOD look.
e. w,a Jra,snl I'm y,ri too,a i, a
~ - - - - , show.I IN
uS"t W. 80 " "ai -
'uc Io'ti =. N.''l''I' TI g '.1 S%rho.,
young IeI'o" i""leu "i,ta'n DI"'Su|
WIN "Hom sly was li'"'o'',u,
lharile' 80 NJ" i't "~"l"sI ".t Pa
W'Shes' ouI III 'hI'e "ceN9 ''T .our'e
h'su ,ose'''i III n'PpInc1', -
uhlreilllS an" nrU'at huso'h" ue o'io
tired oil ms vile ana one morning 'hIuo
the reqnes-I r'qnrst thnt carrier us.
may tome Young vile ) breast anu ma
made lie i harden ever ICE get
div roe aad leave hln. She' WIN wo,
mans DEVOTION sun cIuhS u MN anu
begged nam 10 aSalh 'aNc teii nc
seemed 10 ieIeht ana ior "MIll'e tl'lss
went on apparently S"ioU'inf' Apout
three months AZ ms P"'ch'S
prevailed on nm 10 renioVe
10 the country and i've WIN them' ms
he dill, a"d the poor G,r' was 80
badly treated that 1t was rendered I'M
possible tor Ter 10 mere any longer
she then came to the city, and since
that time has been living with her par
enls on M"Co!ioch street
Yesterday she received a note from
her husband, asking her 10 meet him
down street. Her parents opposed her
granting the request, butths heddStrong
girl let her love overrule her parents
desire, AMI she met hIm at the corner oil
Seventeenth and Chapl!ne streets
What occurred after that is only known
BY what cuGld be gathered from the
broken u]tter3nces OF the wounded girl.
She said: 'He asked me for II divorce,
and | begged him to take ne back and
treat me right, anj then he said, God
damn You. ii YOU do not
Get Il divorce | will make
things so hot Tor you in this town that
vou can't stay here, and then he treat
ri me 50 badly AM called me names,
that 1 could not stand it and | decided
to end things right then and there.
And then | pulled the revolver and shot
once. then the coward run as il he
,huuyht WAS going To kill him, God
LnnTs Jor't want him hurt. and OH!
I,u't ,at any one touch him. and then
.hnt twice"
There Was so much excitement at the
time, that the above were the only facts
that could he elected.
by this time the girls garment had
been removed and them the holes were
spcu. one i'm her left arm and two. right
under the left breast. The doctor, after
an examination, said that all three of
the wounds were dangerous ones. One
was right over the stomach, and he was
afraid had zone into that organ.
The bullet could not be found.
The second II had missed the heart
bv about q sixteenth OF an inch. 1t
glanced on Il rib and was found. The
third was in the arm, and had gone up
towards the shoulder. This bullet
could not be found. The shooting was
done with aseren ho0ter 2Z'lUo CallDre
whitney U. y revolver when was
heii right up To the breast the cio'nihs
being balIS s'orcneI' o..;,.
me Eir, nPPe"leu " po ,r', M
loiI!t! Nneu Wv ~ ~, ~
So. IA go Inno 70 ord har exist.
,ipS' n. nJ tha ,,;-l aoemeJ 70 ba sorrv
49, - not, su,.aadad T.
Iifa and can hardly he blamed, il the
har husband Il ,bay are correct. the