The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-11-09
ANNIES FORMER LIFE.
Her Former Mistress in Philadel-
phia Gives Her a Good
Character.
Special to the Sunday Morning Mems.

Special to the Sunday Morning Mems
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 8. 1890. The
attempt of Annie Jones to shoot DR.
William L. Pyle. of Jersey City, and the
reasons which the girl gives for her
desperate act, have been a sort of two
days wonder in West Philadelphia,
where both were known. DR.. Pyle was q
student in the medical department of the
University OF Pennsyl vania and grad
uated three years ago in the class OF '87.
At the college he is remembe red as q
hard worker who att ended strictly to his
work. and at his boarding h ouse on Wal
nut street they say that as far as can be
remembered, there was nothing about
his conduct which would lead one to
crime which Miss Jones lays at his door.
In her statement to the JERSEY CITY
NEWS. Miss Jones said that she was
boarding at No. 433 North Forty-first
street / called at that number this
morning.
standing back some distance from the
street, with lawn ornamenred with
flower beds in front. was shown into q
cosey parlor and made known my errand
to a pleasant-faced lady.
1.-THE first l heard of Annie's trouble, -
saw an account of her attack on DIR. Pyle
in yesterdays papers. I was much sur
prised to read it, and could NOT believe
that IL was our Annie. During all the
time she lived with us there was nothing
in her conduct which would lead any
one to think that she would do such a
thing.
SHE WIS a SERVANT.
= Il see THAI Annie says'she boarded here.
That is not So She was with us about
fourteen months as a domestic. She
came here direct from Coatesyille, where
her father is employed IN the Houston
Iron Works. We have some relatives in
Gainesville and they recommended Annie
to us. This was about four years ago, as
remember Annie was then nineteen
years old and rather pretty girl. She
had plasant features and plump, attrac-
tive figure. She WAS of lively disposition
and full of life. She liked company
and although she went out often she
never staid out late. She had but few
girl companions that | knew of and no
gentlemen called upon her, except one
young man who, she said. lived in Coates
vile. and was friend of her family. I
never saw anything out of the way in her
conduct She was always ladylike in
her department. and never did / see her
do anything or hear her say anything
which aroused my suspicious.
If she was acquainted with DR. PYLE
and he visited her, it was never at our
house and we never heard her say any
thing ABOUT him except she FREQUENTLY
remarked that she had mash on one Of
the students. But from the manner in
which she alluded to this we never
thought anything Of it further than that
she was joking. She was taken sick after
she had been with us about fourteen
months. but we never suspected that it
was anything like what she says it was
She left us to go home to Coatesville, and
we thought that sne was there until one
day last summer my brother-in-law
thought that he saw her ia the yard OF
the Presbyterian Hospital. AT first he
thought it could not be she. She was SO
thin and emaciated, and. moreover, she
being Catholic he hardly Thought She
would seek admittance into q Presbv-
terlan institution.
"A few days afterwards he went by the
hospital again. and this time Annie
spoke to him. When he expressed sur
prise at seeing her there, she
said that she had left
Coatesville, and had come TO
Philadelphia IN order to receive better
treatment. She said nothing to him Of
her complaint nor did she drop any hint
concerning her sickness. feel very sorry
for Annie, for always liked her, and
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