Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-05-23
A TREASURY rYPEwrrrER
Found In IN Unconsci0us Condition In Her
Room In the Aston House.

| Found I'm IN Unconscious Condition In Her
Room In the Aston House.
Miss Kate r. Pike Of 2016 @ street, this city,
twenty-five years old, clerk in the customs
division of the Treasury Department, was found
unconscious in a room in the Aston House, New
York, last Saturday, with a cash in her left
wrist and the gas pouring from several open
burners and filling the room.
A physician called, and after Miss Pike was
resuscitated she was removed to Bellevue Hos
pital and placed in the ward for female prison.
ers, charged with attempted suicide, which in
New York is q criminal offense.
When she recovered consciousness she stoutly
denied that she had attempted to commit
received the cash in her wrist or why the gas
was turned on.
Miss Pike went to New York about two weeks
ago, being granted leave of absence from office.
She was not well at that time and was suffering
from insomnia, probably due to ayerwork
sisters house at Bayonne, a New Jersey suburb.
Last Wednesday she went into the city to have
her return ticket to Washington extended and
afterward made visit to a friend at Port
Richmond, Staten Island. She saws that she
returned to New York on Thursday, but felt so
bad that she concluded to go to the Astor House
and try to get the sleep which she needed so
much. She took some laudanum to quiet her
nerves and as her head was aching concluded
to have her hair cut off, which she did. She
does not remember anything after this
TYPEWRITER IN THE CUSTOMS DIVISION.
Miss Pike is typewriter in the customs divis-
ion, and is said to be most efficient one, and
moreover very practical young woman with a
large amount Of good sense. The duties Of
typewriters in this Office are onerous, and Miss
Pixies constant labors were beginning to tell
upon her health. Her most intimate friend in
the office, also typewriter, has been living dan
rgerOusly i'll at Garfield Hospital for three
weeks, the result of overwork. Work at the
typewriter is said to be peculiarly trying upon
a woman's nerves and cases of prostration from
1t occur almost daily among department clerks.
DR.. Muncaster of this city has been attending
Miss Pike for several weeks, and it upon
his advice that she went to New York, as he said
she was threatened with prostration.
Miss Pike lives with her widowed mother and
young brother. Mrs. Pike left for New York
yesterday to see her daughter. She was very
much overcome by the news Of her daughters
a ieged attempt at suicide and could assign no
cause for it.
WHAT DIR. MUNCAsTER SAYS.
DR.. Muncaster said to a STAR reporter today !:
" Miss Pike went to New York upon nv ad-
vice to get little rest. Her physical condition
was good with the exception Of extreme
nervousness brought on by overwork She was
threatened with nervous prostration if she
did not have a cessation of work for few DAVIS"
Mr.. COmstock. chief of the customs division,
confirmed the statements of Miss Pixies devo-
ton to her department duties. The typewriting
in his division is very hard, he said as the
correspondence conducted by the division is
voluminous