Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-05-14
HOME AFFAIRS.
AN ALLEGED SACRAMENTO GIRLS
PROBABLE SUICIDE.
Devastating Floods in the West
A Fatal Fist Fight-Great
Oil Fires-Etc.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE RsooRD-uS1os.
MISS GRIsWOLD
Anxiety Regarding Pretty California
Copyist Who is Missing.

Anxiety Regarding Pretty California
Copyist Who is Missing.
NEW YORK, May 13th.-Jessie Griswold
the pretty young copyist, who has been
boarding with w. II. Maclachan, at 137
West Sixteenth street, informed Mrs. Mac
lachan Thursday night that she intended to
commit suicide, and disappeared. She was
arrested at the Westend Hotel, where she
had taken room, but was discharged, as
she said she had told Mrs Maclachan an
untrue story in a fit of passion She said
she had been to Baltimore to aid in put.
ting her lover in an insane asylum. This
statement it has been learned, is false.
Miss Griswold, born of wealthy parents
and reared in luxury, at an early age be-
came infatuated with man many years
her senior, and went with him from Sacra-
mento to Baltimore. Here her lover proved
unfalthful. She came to New York, and
being expert with the pen, secured work as
a copyist. She soon became a victim of
the morphine habit. A week ago she went
to Baltimore to visit man who had paid
her frequent visits during her stay with
the Maclachan family. 1t was after her re-
turn from this visit that she said she would
take her life. She is again missing.
MORE ABOUT THE GIRL.
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New YORK, May 13th-Jessie Griswold,
the young girl recently from Sacramento,
the daughter of wealthy people, who came
East to wed the man she loved, and who
left her clearinghouse in this city, saying
she intended to commit suicide, is still
missing. 1t transpires that she has been a
morphine slave for years. Her trunks re-
main at the boarding-house They contain
many letters, probably throwing some
light on her history.
Recently, by the advice of DIR. Albert s.
Ashmead, of this city, she entered Bellevue
Hospital for treatment, but was soon dis
charged as incurable. Ashmead says he
was summoned by q messenger on the
night of February Z, 1887, to attend the
lady in the Cosmopolitan Hotel. He found
her IN cheap room on the top floor.
MORPHINE VICTIM.
She said: Doctor, | have neuralgia,
and am suffering great pain. want some
morphine" He examined her closely, and
told her he could not give morphine as the
pain was not so great as she imagined
She begged me-" he says, 1" to give her a
hypodermic injection of the drug, but re-
fused. asked her to show me her arms,
and found them covered with the little red
spots so easily identified BY physicians
This confirmed my suspicious. | found
she was chronic morphine-user. | told
her she had told me falsehood, and she
broke down and cried like child. In q
conversation she related much OF her past
life, which | shall consider a secret. She
gave her name as Jessie Griswold. She
said
SHE WAS OF WEALTHY PARENTS
And highly educated. h ruin was caused
by young man who had induced her tc
use opium. ! advised her to go to her
friends, tell them of her condition, and
make an endeavor 10 break herself of the
habit. She said her friends would no Longer
receive her, and even if they would she
did not dare TO go back, as her courage had
all left her through the use of opium. /
told her TO so to some hospital She said
she would, aud make last attempt to save
herself She referred to q Wail-street
broker for the pay for my trouble, but /
never got it,
1.-THE statement that the subject of the
above dispatches is a Sacramento girl is ey-
identity incorrect. Inquiries made here fail
to elicit the slightest information OF such a
person, although she may have been in this
city at one time. There is no family here
of that name, but one, the members OF
which lay no claim to riches. The girl
whose misfortunes have giyer the tele-
graphic reporters so much to write about is
probably sailing under an assumed name,
or has otherwise concealed her IDENTIFY
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