Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-01
JILTED BY HER LOVER
Lizzie Miller Ends Her Life With an
Ounce of Paris Green.
SHE REPENTS HER RASH ACT
And Fights the Agonies Of Death for
Nearly Nineteen Hours.
A ROMANTIC sOUTHSIDE SUICIDE.

"Miss Lizzie Miller died at the South
side Hospital, at 2:30, from the effects OF
paris green. She was % years old, and re-
sided at 2414 Carson street. Her parents
live at Springdale." The above ap-
peared last night on the reporters s
docket" at the Twenty-eighth ward
station-house. In those few lines there
rests tale of rom antic suicide that yester-
day caused a stir Of ex citement all over the
Southside. and is seldom paralleled for in
teresting details.
Lizzie Miller was we'll known on the
Southside, and had an excellent reputation.
For some time she lived with the family of
Mrs. Al Boise, South Sixteenth street, and
later was employed in the Southside laun-
dry. Last Monday she left the laundry,
and was employed by Mrs. Budee, of
Friday morning she left the lat
ter place about 7:30 o'clock, and
said she was going to picnic at Kinney's
Grove, and as she left she told Mrs. Budee
that if she should be brought hack with her
head broken, Mrs. Budee must not be sur
prised. She also said, earlier in the morn
ing, that she was troubled over some stories
that had been told about her. She did not
return, and when the news was spread last
evening that girl had committed suicide,
Mrs Budee laughed and said: "Maybe it's
nv girl; she has not returned" And sure
enough, it was. ... &c. -
NOT A PICNIC FOR HER.
Instead of going to the picnic, Lizzie went
to her former boarding place, Mr.. A. Herbs,
2414 Carson street, and said she had come on
Il visit She seemed depressed in spirits all
day, and in the evening said she wanted to
write some letters, and sat up after the others
had retired About II 80 o'clock the young
people of the house came home from the
picnic. John R. Daniels, one of the picnic
goers, also a boarder in the house, saw
Lizzie in the dining room and went in to
borrow a pen. She looked deathly pale,
and he noted the fact, but she refused to tell
him what was the matter, until about IL
o'clock, when she admitted that she had
taken paris green. She cautioned him not
to tell, and said she was homeless and for
saken, and had wanted to die.
After she had taken the poison she re-
GREETED the act. She had vomited and told
Daniels she would soon be all right. She
got an ounce of paris green about 7:45 in
the evening at nearby drugstore and took
it soon after in water.
Mr. Daniels LETT her in the dining room
and went to another room for moment.
When. he came down he found
the door open, and rushing out
side found her lying insensible in
the alley. He carried her into the house,
and on her calling for water, gave her some.
He then got her rocking chair and quilt,
and she said she would be all right and
would sit up. -. ..
Daniels went to his room, aud about
o'clock screams awoke the girls Of the house.
They went down and found Lizzie writhing
in agony. She had fought grim death with
all her strength, but it was mastering her.
DIED IN GREAT AGONY.
DR.. Kerr was quickly summoned ard did
what he could. About IL o'clock yesterday
she was taken to the Southside Hospital.
She was wholly conscious until the time OF
her death, at about 2:30, and suffered in
tensely. . .... -.-.
At the hospital she said that stories had
been circulated about her and they had
reached the ears of her lover, and she had
received letter from him; he had forsaken
her and she wanted to die. .-...-
August" the young man, boarded at the
place where she took the poison. She had
loved him dearly. and went back to see him
once more before she left him forever.
She had written two letters and mailed
them, one to her mother, Mrs. Meyer, OF
Springdale, and one to her brother. The
mother and a sister visited Semmelrock's
undertaking rooms last evening, where the
body was removed, and an affecting scene
was witnessed by those present. The crowd
of people that had been passing through,
gazing with morbid curiosity on the girl.
was dispersed and the relatives given the
room. -. p"
The girl lay in plain coffin, her eyes
partly closed. and smile on her lips, as
though her last thoughts were of her lover.
Her mother said the letters read that she
had no one to care for her, and was home
less and forsaken, and ere they received the
letter she would be rid of her troubles by
the aid of paris green. -
Mrs. Meyer had married a second time.
Her daughter did not like the arrangement,
and LEFT home. She could not stand the re-
ports which had been falsely circulated
about her until they came to her lovers ears,
and had taken the poison. .-,. ...t.,
The body was viewed by deputy coroner
last night, and will be inferred in the
Sharpsburg cemetery this afternoon.