The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-09-07

Yesterday morning girl OF eighteen
years, known here as Bessie Moore,
died in Annie Keim's house OF i'll fame,
on Twenty-frst street, under peculiarly
sad circumstances. The young woman
is said by those who knew her to be
comparatively new in the career she
had entered. On Monday she and
another inmate OF the house, well
known as Dode Marshall, sent a girl
named Louisa Young, who 1t is claimed
is chambermaid at the house, to drug
store to get some opium. The girl went
to Ebeling's pharmacy, and told Her
bert Harrell, the clerk who sold her the
opium, that she wanted it to poison q
dog. All tho legal requirements sur
rounding the sale OF poison we're COM
piled with, and she got quarters
worth Of raw opium.
The poison was the more readily son
her as a member OF Mrs. Keim's family
had previously bought strychnine to
poison dog, and Mrs. Keim had re.
fused to allow it to be used because OF
the painful death it caused. It seemed
natural after that that an opiate should
be desired for the same purpose. :.
The two girls ate together about bali
the large chunk Of opium. The testi;,
mony yesterday was that they had
heard that eating OPIUM would give
them pleasant dreams, and they desired
to try it,
They appeared at lunch between 10
and ii o'clock Monday night, and Mrs.
Keim noticed something peculiar about
Bessie, butascribed it to drinking. She
told her to go to her own room, instead
OF to Dode Marshall's, and that was the
last she heard Of her until early yfster'
day morning, when she was told the
girl was dying. =,
Two girls had been in the room with
her, and had noticed her condition
and spent some time in trying. to
arouse her, but in vain, before they
called the landlady.
DR.. Taylor was ut once summoned,
but it was too late for his skill to save
her life, and she died about eight
o'clock.
The Marshall girl ate freely Of the
drug also, but was merely sickened so
that she vomited, which relieved her,
and yesterday she wos all right. :,
Coroner Phillips was notified, and
held an inquest about 8 o'clock. He
examined all who knew anything about
the case, and then issued a death certi-
ficate in accordance with the facts. lie
learned that the girls right name was
Ritchey, and that her mother lived at
Freeport, Pa, where the girl was high
" connected, He telegraphed her
mother, and later received response
saying she would arrive here last even
ing.
Only tho evening before, Bessie had
received telegram from her mother,
asking her to meet her last evening in
Pittsburgh, and the girl had made all
her arrangements to do SO.
The girl first came to Wheeling with
the woman Alice MCGOWAN, who came'
from Pittsburgh to Steubenville. and
being warned away from there by the
police, from Steubenville to Wheeling.
The day after they arrived the police
raided the house, Bessie then gave her
name as Maggie Mitchell, but said her
right name was Bessie Moore.
Since that she has alternated between
Pittsburgh and Wheeling. She came
here last TWO weeks ago with Dode Mar
shall. She said that before she first
came here with Alice MCGOWAN abe
lived at Lem Anderson's, No. % Cher
nv Alley, Allegheny City. She told
the girls that she had been with the
Wilbur Opera Company when away the
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