The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-10
END OFALIFE OF SHAME
Dying An Outcsat aad Deserted by Her
lsetrayer-Her M0thers Futile At
tempt tai Reclaim Her Fan-
len Child.

SEATTLE. JAM 9-The other afternoon
Officer Chas. Phillips was hastily sum-
moned to the Elliot lodging house, on the
corner of South Third and Jackson
streets, where a woman was supposed to
be dying. The person turned out To be
Gertie Montrose, who has been here about
two weeks, playing n violin i'm the differ
ent saloons of the city. She was lying i'm
her bed at the Elliot house apparently
dying when the officer her. He at
once summoned physician who roomed
i'm the house and the unfortunate woman
was given all the attention possible. She
only yesterday, when the officer was sum-
moned, did the people of the house think
she was dangerously i'll.
DIR. Grant, the city physician, was sum-
moned tn the woman's bedside. He cx-
an,ined her and shortly found n morphine
bottle, almost empty. concealed in the
betl-clothing. DIR. Grant says that the
woman's condition is no doubt caused by
am overdose of morphine taken with
suicidal intent. The woman has been
tlownheartcd for several days, il il said
i'm consequence of the man she was living
with deserving her. She is said to have
Threatened, frequently, tn take her own
life. DIR. Grant expressed but little con fl
ience i'm the wonan's ability to- rally from
her illness and recover.
The history of this latest unfortunate to
close life of sin and shame within the
confines of whitechapel il peculiarly
sad one. Gertie MOI trose is "A name as
fled from her home to- enter upon u career
of licentioiisness and sin.
Nellie T.. Dugan was a pretty, vivaciolis
| and Intelligent school girl in San Fran
cisco, back i'm 1885. Her mother, n most
estimable woman, conducted "a cheap bu I
eminently respectable lodging house in
that city, n place resorted to by young men
| who toiled in and about job printing and
newspaper offices. Nellie was attending x
| the high school i'm that city when she firs
met Billy Reillcy, IA pressinan. Reillcy
| had taken lodgings at Mrs. Dugan's
| house. An acquaintance that, upon the
| part of the girl, quickly ripened into a
| warm affection, sprang up between her
| poor girls trust, betrayer's crime
Reilley and the girl suddenly Disappeared
| They went to- Fresno. where Reilley forced
| her to- enter upon life of sin. He was
| arrested there as IA vagrant. She paiti his
| fine, and, forced to- work, he went to bar
| tending. She in the main supported him
off the earnings of her shame.
| From Fresno the pair went to Sacra
| mcnto. thence to Portland and this city
| For the past six months Reilley has lived
| entirely oil the earnings of tii.. woman hs
| seti,Iccd and forced tn sin. Two weeks
| ago Nellie Dugau took sick. i hen Reillc.
deserted her. Where he is no one of hi,
companions know. IL is believed. how
ever. that he is i'm Portland. Ii is sup
posed that, sick. deserted, tired of her life
unfortunate Nellie Dugan took the deadl.
drug in the hope that in death she wouls
find long sought relief.
Old Mrs. DuRan died "a heart-brokeI
women at San Francisco i'm 1887 afte
making strenuous efforts to reclaim heI
fallen child.