The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-03-20
MRS. EVA TAYLOR, A YOUNG
WIDOW FROM ARKANSAS
THE VICTIM.

woman about four miles from Cnl
city walking towards Austin lead
ing two charming little chill
dren. She was brunette, will
hair black as the plumage of a Span
ish chanticleer; had fair clear com
plexion; her features very regular ant
marked with more than ordinary
beauty; she possessed dark and liqulC
eyes full of soul and expression
and withal she was woman so re
markable in her personal appearance
as to attract attention any where, fol
added to these charms mentioned shC
possessed a full symmetrical form
almost perfect in its contour. He
little girl is handsome blonde of per
haps eight years of age, bright
and sweet as a little girl car
be. The other child, little boy
is light compleXioned and about two
years and a half old. AS the gentle
man came up to her side she
ASKED FOR A RIDE.
and he took her and her children in
and brought them to Austin. The
lady and her children went to the
Hubbard house, which is over Weed
& French's livery stable, and engaged
room until yesterday, to which she
was assigned she and her children
entering it Immediately. In a short
time she came out and inquired where
she could find DIR. Mclaughlin, stat
ing she wanted to see him. 1t was not
far from IL o'clock when she
came to the Hubbard house and
was assigned a room. When the din
ner was announced, the two children
came out, but their mother did not
appear. The little girl was asked
where her mamma was and she re-
piled she was asleep and did not wish
to be awakened. She arose about a
quarter to three and wrote several
letters, after this she borrowed quar-
ter of dollar from the landlady and
about four o'clock went out to the
street and remained away from the
house for
AN HOUR OR MORE,
returning about five o'clock, an i'm
mediately went to her room again
Here she remained very quiet
until half past eight, when
she again left the house
returning just as the folks were get
ting back from church, probably about
nine o'clock. The little girl says when
she returned she emptied some white
stuff into tumbler, poured water on
it, auds drank it, taking a drink of
water after she had taken the powder
She then told her little girl she was
going to sleep, and if she should die
before morning to tell the folk at the
hotel to send her to her grandpa in
Pine Bluff. She then lay across the
bed without removing her clothing
Yesterday morning when the children
came to breakfast, they said their
mamma was asleep and they could
not wake her. On going to the room
she
WAS FOUND
lying across the bed in very como
toSe condition from the effects of
morphine. Physicians were sent for
at once, but before they arrived the
poor woman was dead. A STATES
MAN representative visited the cham
Der of death and saw the beautiful
woman in her last sleep; and indeed
she looked as though she were but
pleasantly sleeping. The girl was in
terviewed and the bright little
thing gave a clear account OF her
self and mother as far back as
she could recollect. Her story is this;
Her mothers name was Mrs. Eva
Taylor, and they formerly lived in
Pine Bluff, Ark. q city of commercial
Importance en- the Texas q st. Louis
railroad. Her father was carpenter
and at time when her little brother
was just old enough to sit alone. he
went to some place not far from Pine
Bluff and stick of timber fell upon
him. striking him in the head. Sht
says he was brought home with bad
headache and
IN A SHORT TINE DIED.
They lived about year after his
death with Mr.. Taylor's father, anC
then came to some place in Texas
1t was in the country, and the chile
could not remember the name of thu
place. While they were living at thi:
place a Mr.. Roberts came to see he
mamma, and they went to live with
him. She says they went on the carr
and they took the train in the morn
ing and left it about dark, getting of
at a station not far from where thi
Roberts lives. She says that Mi
Roberts and her mother had troubl,
about her and her little brother, an(
her mother took them and started tc
walk to the city. She was overtakel
by the gentleman we have mentioned
and he gave them ride to Austin
The little girls name IS Blanche Tay
lor and the boys nlmp, she says, is
George Felix Taylor, and the grand
pas name living at Pine Bluff is Gee
Taylor. Not paper nor anything
else could be found upon her person t.
give any clue to the motive tina
prompted this beautiful woman t.
take her life. She did not have &
cent of money and no doubt the TWEEN
ty-five cents she borrowed went 10 pa
for the poison with which she endeC
her beautiful young womanhoot
Doubtless the letters she wrote an
probably mailed, when she went on
at 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon tell tn
tale of her grief and when we hea
from her old home we may get tn
secret of her act.
NO DOUBT
there is a history connecte
with this beautiful woman, III
known to her little daughte
and which will perhaps come
light as the case is further i2vestigi
ted. Surely nothing can be saddle
than the facts presented by the sci
destruction of beautiful, health
and apparently accomplished youn
woman such as Mrs. Taylor surel
, was. Her death alone is sad, bI
.. when added to this is the fact tn;
. she leaves two bright and promisin
babes orphaned by her tragic end, tt
!, case becomes doubly sorrowful-let
too, thousand miles from home ar
= friends to the charity and mercy
! strangers. There must be some DEF
: and direful trouble gnawing
, a mothers heart when She can
, this-what that canker is, may new,
: be known to the curious world,
may forever lie buried with her crus
ed heart in the lowly pauper's gray
, where she was placed by the hands
2 public charity yesterday; but the s;
a It that quenohed her young life al
!, orphaned her children, speaks wi
\ positive terms in its silent eloquen(
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