Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-03
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH,

NEW YORK, September 2.-All OF Little
Italy, in Harlem, is agog over the suicide
yesterday of 16-year-old Elizabeth Troia. The
evident determination OF the family to frown
down gossip by tomb-like silence on the
whole subject has availed little or nothing.
Elizabeth was not only the daughter OF
wealthy parents, and OF family on the top
notch of Italian upper tendon, but she was
the belle of Little Italy, and the Juliet of q
recent romance with false and sordid Ro-
meo. This is her story, as gathered by the
police from neighbors with wagging tongues:
Elizabeth's sweetheart was a contractor.
The verdict of Little Italy fits him out with
person small and mean as his soul, a
single eve, which he kept firmly riveted on
the main chance, an ugly face and we'll
filed pocketboOk. Despite it all, the fair
Elizabeth loved him with womanly con-
trariness, all the more, doubtless, because
her people opposed the match. EliZabeth's g
elder sister married a Harlem aristocrat, a
land owner in Little Italy, and the cOntrac-
tor, despite his pocketbook and his qualif-
cations for the rapid acquisition of wealth,
was viewed Win QlS3aNof.
HAD PLANNED TO ELoPE.
The lovers had planned to elope. The
fair Elizabeth's trunk was packed and all
was ready, when a letter from her to the
contractor fell into her parents hands and
let them into the secret. Knowing their
man, perhaps, they sent for the contractor.
He came, and after protracted interview
with the old folks consented to 'let the
thing slide" and SO told his afianced bride.
His desertion, more than the baking of her
desires, broke her heart. She shut herself
in her room and would see none Of her peo-
pie. This morning she went to confession
in the new church at One Hundred and
Fifteenth street. She told the priest that
il was the last time she should see
him, and went straight to neighbor'S
house, within three doors of her own home,
at No. 22O4 First avenue, upon coming out
of the church. There she swallowed fully
an ounce of paris green. Hours later, when
the agonizing pain of the poison made her
weak and sick, she dragged herself home to
die. Her father sent for the family physi-
clan, DR.. Felix Amabile, but she would
not tell him what the trouble was. Soon
the green stuff, rejected by her stomach,
betrayed the truth, but it was then too late.
The girl fought with determination against
the administration of an antidote. She had
her way. In the evening, after II hours
suffering, she died.
A DEATHBED INTERVIEW.
There had been deathbed interview, so
it is said, between the girl and her cravenly
lover, from which she came out with dry,
hot eyes, and more determined purpose 10
die than ever. He went away Struggling
his shoulders and saying that he was sorry.
The dead girls parents refuse absolutely to
speak. They claim that their daughter had
no love affair and no reason for suicide. The
facts of her selt-nurder and the universal
verdict of Little Italy contradict them point
blank. 1t is said that the real reason of her
parents for opposing the girls blind infatu-
alton was their better knowledge OF the con-
tractors mean caliber and the superiority
of their high-spirited, intelligent daughter,
that would inevitably make an, unhappy
marriage.