Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-10-04
A GIRLS DESPAIR
CAUSES HER TO ATTEMPT SELF
MURDER.
Abandoned by Her Lover and Cast Off
BY Her Friends, She Resorts
to a Dose Of laudnum
and Receivers.

case OF q young WOlnaH, weary vi INV
attempting self.murder. As usual, a
love affair was at the bottom oil 1t.
Jennie Martin, a young Island girl,
frowned on by her lover, attempted a
short way through her troubles, under
the following circumstances:
Last night about seven o'clock a gen.
tleman who resides on the Island was
going west on Zane street, when oppo
site Lyda's drug store noticed a woman,
about a square ahead OF him and coming
towards him, fall to the ground. She
regained her feet and started on again.
When the gentleman passed her it was
in the shade OF some trees, and he took
the person for a drunken woman who
resides on the Island. He called her
by that name, and the woman stopped
and said, sits not Annie, its me-" The
gentleman stepped up to her and found
il to be Jennie Martin, ayoung woman
who has been employed as a servant.
and whose parents reside at No. Is
South York street.
The question was asked as to what
was the matter, and she replied
that she was not well, was
feeling sick and was going to the drug
store TO get some medicine. She ex.
planned her fall by saying that she had
tripped on some loose bricks. She then
started on towards the drug store. Tie
gentleman was not entirely satisfied
that all was right and strolled slowly
back. He watched her step up to tine
counter, ask for something and saw the
clerk hand her a small bottle. .
The girl then came out and started
west on Zane street. The gentleman
went into Lyde's anu found out that the
girl had obtained a panel ounce bottle,
holding about l20 grains, Of laudanum.
He made the remark "she is going to
drink that" and started out just i'll
time to see the bottle thrown down
empty to the ground. fastening to her
he found her already fast becoming
drowsy and Immediately escorted her
to the residence OF Mr.. John Rose
borough, where she Was employed as a
domestic. DR.. Jepson was then teIe-
phoned for and was soon there, when
he administered emetics which caused
vomiting, and also gave her j hyper
dermic injection OF atropine.
During all this time she was rapidly
sinking and giving away to that deadly
slumber from which there is no awaken
Ing. She was, however, at length
aroused from her l~etherage,
and with friends on either
side and under the direction Of the ply.
sician conveyed to her parents home:
Orders were here given to have cold
baths provided, and some black coffee,
to produce nausea, was also admins.
tered. Another injection vas made, and
also an examination Of the eyes, pulse
and tongue. Then, as she did not seem
to grow brighter, the hall dozen gentle
men present took turns, n on either
side. walking her up and down the pave
ment.
A reporter for this paper was present
and during the time be was walking
with her he questioned her. Although
her remarks were rather disjointed, he
learned that she had been in Martins
Ferry during the afternoon visiting her
aunt, and that she wanted to die because
she had no home to 60 to and her father
and mother were against her. She re-
peated over and over again that the
only dose she had taken wa the one at
Lyda's drug store.
In response to the question as to
whether she had ever been married or
not, she replied that about four weeks
ago she went to West Alexander with
Jake Deiters to be married, but that
Squire Mayes was not at home. When
.zIol ,,ky thax, hal mot haAn pnorripI
since, she said that Jake was angry with
her because she had been walking one
night with another young fellow.
After these questions had been an
swered, the reporter interviewed the
gentleman who picked her up, and he
said: 'She told me when | was taking
Der across the street that she had taken
a dose in Martins Ferry; that she then
met John on Front street, and told him
she had taken the dose because he had
served her a mean, dirty trick. She
told me positively that she had taken
two Doses" The girl admitted all but
the fact relating to the two doses.
The girls father and mother were out
of the city visiting, but her brother and
younge sister were at home. They
said that Jennie had not been acting e
actly right for a long time back, and
that her father and told her that unless
she behaved better she could not come
there.
Jennie is a girl about twenty-three
years old, and about the average height
OF a woman OF that age. She has not q
handsome face nor an ugly one, and
there seems to be nothing vicious about
her, only at nj time when asked II
she knew where she was, and replying
in the negative, she was told she was in
her mothers houae, she scowled in a
terrible manner but became treasured
when informed that her mother was not
there.
As to the girls reputation, then were
various stories afloat, some knew moth
ing about it and others limited in a mys'
terious manner.
When the reporter left she was better,
and there was every hope for her recov'
cry.
irhe clerk on duty at Lyda's said that
she walked in there in a perfectly com
posed manner, and asked for some
laudanum to be used for the toothache,
and he did not for an instant suspect
her suicidal intents.