The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-02-26
Deadly Dose.

A sympathetic instance Of u woman'H
devotion aud mans frailty, OF depth
aud sincerity that only recognizes death
as panacea, was displayed in the shape
Of corpse yesterday forenoon. Hattie
Keys was found, cold in death, with an
empty morphine bottle by her side, in
Meistorhan's pavilion, on East Bryan
street. Her stiiiened corpse
was detected ON the stand
erected for the band which
furnishes music for the large dancing
hall. The hall Ii only opened on sun
days for the ontertainment OF guests,
although visitors are permitted To enter
Ing the week. The garden Is \ pretty
place and the surroundings are admira-
ply adapted TO the conveniences OF adj
miring couples. On the afternoon of
Thursday last the gardener, John Ball,
noticed three women ana one man
enter the hail. Az the time he WAS
Framing trees, and paid but littlo heed
10 them. The party remained in the
hal. about 80 minutes, when they lett.
Miss Keys was among the number.
About an hour atterwaru she returned
aud entered the pavilion alone. This
was the last seen OF her until her corpse
was discovered yesterday morn
ing. AT the coroner's inquest, facts
were CLEANED, which point conclusively
TO II suicide, and tho causes which
prompted 10. The deceased claimed TO
be The lie OF Sam S. Sweeney, the
night Waterman Of the San ia into
Street railway car stables. She had
been residing in Fort Worth, and on
Monday and Tuesday wrote him I'M
plOring letters, buJ OF what character Is
not. known. On Tuesday afternoon she
came to Dallas, repaired 10
the Office Of the Man
Street railway company and inquired
T.. sweeney. He was absent, but she
left "A note Tor him, in which the declar-
alton was made that she would commit
suicide at Meisterhan's pavilion on the
Saturday afternoon following. Prlor 10
this event, however, she addressed u
note TO Sweeney, asking Tor money with
which to sustain herself, and complained
that ne had been neglectiDg her. O'to
Gl0iser, an employee of the road, READ
the note aud states that on its reception
Sweeney threatened suicide. Subse-
guently she cent little boy To him for
money, and again Sweeney was absent
She came in person again and wept hit-
terly, he stated, and further remarkeu
that Sweeney had admitted to him That
she was his vito and had intro
duced her rs such. Hattie Keys,
as will be remembered by the readers
of tho HERALD, IL the woman VINO at,
TEN pted suicide last summer by jump
ing from the road bridge into the river,
and was prevented by stranger. she
has several times swallowed morphine
with deadly intent,a memorable occas-
ion being on the San JacinIo
street car line in December last,
when it was thought that she had
only tainted. She was OF morose dis
position, her main hobby being her re-
gard for Sweeney. 1t seems that he han
tired of her and become Disguised, and
as lotion for her wounded feelings, she
ended her life in the manner described.
About two weeks ago snU wrote MIN that
she would die where they bad last
parted-at Meisterhan'S pavilion.
Justice Schulz was notified, and
Jury OF inquest was summoned. Seve-
raj witnesses were examined, When an
adjournment resulted until this morn
ing.
x local notice appeared in the HERALD
Yesterday morning OF the death OF Hattie
Keys, at Meisterhan's pavilion, on
sunday afternoon. 1t was also stated
nat Justice Schulz had summoned a
ury of inquest, to sit in Judgment upon
he cause of her death. The following
s their verdict, delivered yesterday
afternoon:
VERDICT.
We, the jury, after investigating the
cause of the death of Hattie Keys,
whose body we viewed in Meisterhan's
pavilion, on Sunday, February %, 1885,
lind q verdict rs follows:
That she came to her death from
some cause unknown to us, but we
have strong susuicions that she died
from opium poison, whether adininis-
tered 10y herself or some other other per-
son we cannot determine from the evil
dence before us.
Signed.l j. W. WRIGHT.
IL. r. PROPER.
A. GUBLER.
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