, 1885-09-30

Miss kleeberger's Error.
JOLIET, ILL.,, Sept pa sensational
attempt at suicide was made by a young
lady last evening IN the south bound
Rock Island passenger train, due here at
ll;60 p. m. The facts developed in the
case are as follows. When the train left
Chicago Conductor Morgan started
through, as usual, to collect fares. His
attention was attracted TO a young lady
passenger, who gave a ticket to Daven-
port, Iowa. The young lady wore an ex-
preston of anguish; in fact her face was
the picture of abandoned hope and utter
despair. Conductor Morgan's sympathy
was aroused, and he was tempted to in
quire into the cause of her apparent suf-
fering, but he desisted and resolved to
watch her. When about half way be-
tween Chicago and Joliet the conductor
missed her from her seat in the car and at
once began searching for her, fearing that
his suspicious of al attempt to make way
with herself had been realized.
He found her at length, in a dazed con-
dition, seated on the platform between
two OF the coaches. He removed her to a
place of safety, and telegraphed to Joliet
at the next station for medical assistance
to meet him at the train. In a short time
the lady was attacked with spasms of a
violent nature, requiring several strong
men 10 hold her. Many ladies at once re-
membered seeing the mysterious young
lady put some white substance on half of
a peach and eat it. 1t was now plain to
all in the car that the lady had swallowed
some deadly drug, and great fear was en-
tertained that she would die before reach
ing Joliet, On the arrival of the train
here the young lady was borne on a
stretcher to the Shurts hotel in charge of
Or. C. Ogden. The most herculean
efforts were made to a V the young lady's
life, and every expedient known to medi-
cal science was resorted to. At last the
patient dropped off into a peaceful SUM
Der, and the physician knew then that his
efforts were crowned with success.
On awakening this morning the lady
was b%ewildered, and asked in in anxious
manner, Where am I?' Being told that
she was in Joliet, she replied: We'll, |
ought to be in Joliet or some insane
asylum for the foolish thing | have
done. She gave her name as Miss
Cora Kleebcrger, of Chicago, and stated
that she was a stenographer for a well
known insurance firm on LaSalle street.
She is about % years of &C., is very at
t~ractive and intelligent, has a classic face
of superior beauty, and has a 1.-the,
elegantly proportional form. Her people
live in Nebraska, and her father, she says,
is dead. She regretted her foolish
act, and hoped it would not be made
public.
1t is a miracle that the girls life was
saved, as, according to her own acknowl
edgment, she took five grains of morphine,
and the drug had been at work on her
system from TIE time she left Chicago.
She thanked the physician for saving her
life, and told him her life at home in the
first place had been made miserable by a
stepfather, who abused the children and
made the house n hell. She stated that
she had had but one friend in the world
and that last Friday her friend sent her a
note which convinced her that he was her
friend no longer, and that this so worked
upon her feelings that she was driven to
the attempt upon her life. She took the
precaution to have her clothing and
effects so arranged that no one could
know her when found dead. She is well
educated and stated that this was the only
bad act of her life. She has a good situa-
ton in Chicago, and returned to go to
work again and forget her troubles il
possible.