Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-12-10
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A Pitiahla Death.

On Tuesday morning last, Eva Wilson.
a pretty blonde. about twenty-one years
of age lay dead in q house in Gas House
Lane. She was dressed in white and on
! her wrist was handsome gold bracelet.
| Around stood some of the girls OF
TIE house speaking in low tones,
| police officer, and one or two newspaper
men. Her straw colored hair had been
banged by some of her companions as she
J had worn 1t in life. and there was nothing
save sharp compression OF the upper lip
to tell that she was not only sleeping. In
| the silence of death she awaited reply
| to a telegram sent to those who had known
| her in better life, which would decide
whether her body should be sent TO tne
! home she had left or be buried here by
/ her comrades. Her death had been a ma
tural one-to one of her avocaJion. -Four
months ago she came to Staunton from
Richmond. Like most Of her calling, she
had history to tell. she said she hao
not lived at home since her mother had
married again which made that place disa-
SiOO1OlO w aCls AuO oNiN cAU" "ASA
became twentY-one years of age she would
receive several hundred dollars of a le-
gacy, and that she bad a husband in Dan
vile aud child somewhere else; that her
brother, whose name she gave, kept store
on Main street in Richm0nd. How true
or untrue all this was, or even her real
| name, none but herself knew.
On November 23i, she moved from the
house in Stanton in which she was
boarding, to that OF Fanny Ford in which
she died. The story OF her end as related
by her companions and the mistress OF the
house is about as follows: Last Tuesday
week she had been drinking some and
complained of being i'll. Sac went up
town and got some morphine. 1t made
her wild, aud before getting home again
the police took her to the jail. After she
had remained there some time it was
found that she was sick and physician
was called in. On Thursday Of last week
the keeper of the house went to the Jail
with carriage and took her cut and car
rled her home. There she was shown
every attention and besides the visits of
a physician, the keeper and women of the
house sat up and nursed her by turns.
Last Tuesday morning 1t became clear
that her life was fast ending. 1t was as
clear to her as to the rest. She spoke tC
the girls around the bed and entreated
them to take warning by her example and
lead a better life. She tried to think Of
some long forgotten hymn, and then re-
membering verse, tried to sing it. She
begged that God would Just keep her
alive until He could forgive her," and
then as her vision clouded, with sudden
Cry of ':Oh, hold mel am going," ex-
PRED.
The telegram sent TO the relatives of the
dead woman was answered Tuesday night
by the arrival of a gentleman from Rich
mond who had been sent by her mother
for the body, which he took back with him
Wednesday morning. He went to Under
taker Wilks' to settle for the funeral ex-
penses, but they had already been paid by
the girls comrades here. What the dead
woman had said of the responsibility of her
family proved to be true; she came from
excellent people whose names it would
not be proper 90 give. AS for the rest OF
her history as stated by herself, the gen.
tleman who came for her remains said
nothing of it.