The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-03-13
TRASHY NOVELS DID 1T.
PRETTY SUSIE MURPHY MADE
CRAZY BY THEM.

The Suicide at the Fart House Traced
to Yellow Litersture-Ths Young
Girls Death After Thirty Hours OF
Suffering From the Fatal Poison.
Her Body Taken to Her Former
Home-The Suicide Deliberate Act.
How the Poison Was Secured.
Susie Murphy, the young woman who
took morphine at the Hart house Friday
afternoon. died at 9;4s O'Clock yesterday
morning Considering the quantity Of the
poison she had taken, IL 10 rather remarka-
bic that she lived 30 long.
Early yesterday morning she rallied
somewhat but did not recover consciousness.
and soon relapsed. Her brother-n-law, DIR.
II. r.. Mooney of Ellabell, arrived IN the
city at O'Clock and remained with her
until she died. DR.. Mooney heard
Of the attempt of his sister-in-law upon her
life about Q O'Clock Friday night from a
passenger on the night train and remained
at the telegraph Office until midnight en-
deavoring TO get word TO Savannah, but
the operator was unable 20 obtain connec-
ton. Mr.. Hart also endeavored to send
telegram to DIR. Mooney Friday night, but
was informed by the Western Union Office
at Savannah that no communication could
be Cotton with the Office at Eilabell and the
operator had probably gone TO bed. DIR.
Mooney took the first train to the city.
TAKEN HOME TO BE BURIED.
The body was turned over to Undertaken
Fox and DR.. Mooney left with it for
Halcyondale last night. from whence
church in Bulloch county to-day
for interment in the old family burying
ground.
DR.. Moneys account of the dead girl
and his explanation Of her action, which 10
evidently the correct one, clears her rela-
tives Of the impuration by the cIrcum-
stances surrounding her death and the notes
for her. Melancholia, resulting from
excessive reading Of trashy novels,
appears to have been the cause Of
her rash act. She was about Is
years old, DR.. Mooney said, and
daughter OF Henry Murphy, well-to-do
farmer Of Bulloch county. She had
good home and was under no necessity Of
working for q living. She also had an
uncle, two brothers-ln-law and several
other near relatives In Bryan and Bulloch
counties, all prosperous AID well-to-do, at
whose homes she was always welcome.
STRANGE DISPOSITION.
Oho WIS A1ob abthCAoQ Win tu6 I0dOlh
about four years ago. 1t manifested itself
In hts OF melancholy and by sudden and un.
accountable dislikes toward members OF the
family. She became restless, and would
remain only short time at one place, visit
ing about at the houses of her. relatives.
About two years ago she attempted
suicide by taking chloroform ct the house
Of her uncle. DIR. Holmes. at Taylcr's creek,
but was discovered in time and was
raeuaOifafaA Tho ms Eap
and was unknown to DR.. Mooney until yes
terday.
About the same time. also, she made an
effort to come to come to Savannah TO
work at Harris restaurant, but was pre-
vented by her relatives She seemed pos
sessed with the idea that it was necessary
for her to make her own living. Except
when having these fits of melancholy she
was of very pleasant and even lively dis
position.
Her self.destruction was evidently pres
meditated,. She was staying with her
sister. Mrs Mooney, in Ellabell,
and decided that she would re-
turn to her fathers home in
Bulloch county, or so Informed her sister.
She made arrangements to leave, but failed
to catch the train the first morning, and TO
make certain OF getting Off the next morn-
ing she borrowed an alarm clock aud placed
It'll her room at night. She left Ellabell FRI
day morning with some money, sufficient to
pay all her expenses home.
GETTING THE POISON.
Instead Of changing ,rs at Meldrim, the
junction OF the Savannah and Western and
Central railroads, she came on to Savan-
nah. She did not go directly to the Hart
house, upon her arrival, but evidently set
about securing morphine She is
thought to have tried eeveral
places without success, but finally
secured it at E. J. Kieffer's, on West Broad
street. She gave her name correctly when
asked, and said that she wanted the NOR
phine for her sister who lived in the coun-
try. She bought 50-grain bottle. for
which sue paid so cents. and of which she
took twenty-six grains on the day follow
ing. She went TO the Hart house about 10
o'clock and did not go outside the house af-
terward. The selection of her room showed
with what care she was planning her own
destruction, as it was upon the top floor and
to ITSELF
DR.. Mooney said there was no doubt that
the girls mind was deranged at the time of
her act. Her idea that she wac thrown
upon the mercies Of cold world, with no
means of making living, was evidently
the imagination of a diseased brain. Her
death is great blow to her relatives, by
whom she was well liked, in spite OF her pc
culiarities.