The morning call., 1894-07-06

minutes before she died and told me that
she was in trouble. told her to sit down
and she tainted. Then l called in DR..
Pugh and DIR. Agnew. The girl died
while they were present. and one of them
sent word to the Coroner. Now, | don't
know anything more about it.
Il think you do know more about II.
was the answer, but the woman would say
nothing further.
The dead girl was of medium height-and
wore neat travelling dress OF gray cash.
mere. A pair Of gold earrings, plain
gold ring, ring set with red stone and
ST. 10 in a steelbound purse were found on
the body when il was searched at the
Morgue.
Dr. Pugh was seen last night and said
that girl called upon him about 20
minutes past II to go TO Seventh street
10 see a woman who was dying. When he
got there he saw at once that she was
dying, but he poured some spirits OF am
mona down her throat to revive her II
possible. Then he gave some directions TO
Mrs. Laphame and hurried tor DR.. Agnew.
When he returned with Dr. Agnew the
woman was dead. He never saw Mrs.
Laphame before. Mrs. Laphame told him
the woman had been about fifteen minutes
in the house when she tainted. He and
DR.. Agnew were simply physicians called
in to see a dying woman, so they did not
examine carefully into the case, as that
was the duty of the Coroner
DR.. Kelly, Market street, says he has
no recollection of having any patient suf-
fering from la grippe or pneumonia, such
as the woman described. But he would go
to the Morgue and see il he could Identity
her.
Detectives Egau and Gibson spent some
hours in pieciug together the letters found
in the kitchen stove, along with two rings.
There were two letters and telegram.
The two letters were written in peRcil and
did not bear any signature. One was
dated June % and the other June 27, both
from this city and in the same haDdwrI-
ing-a woman's. The second was in the
form of threat. telling her not to be too
independent. The detectives did not think
they had any connection with the dead
woman.
The telegram, however. they think may
have some bearing upon the case. 1t is
dated Vancouver. B. c., July 4. night"
and was received here at $40 yesterday
morning. 1t is signed &c. Drysdale," and
reads as follows: Have received no reply
to registered letter 18TH June. Answer"
The envelope was addressed mrs. ID.
Goodwin, Seventh street." The steamer
Umatilla arrived from Victoria yesterday
morning, and the police think that the
victim may have been passenger by her
and the telegram from Drysdale was 10
see il everything was right prior to the
woman making her appearance at 3 Sew
enth street. Be this as II may, Mrs. Lap
hame was seen by Mrs. Morse to tear up
The telegram as soon as she thought the
woman was dying.
Mrs. Laphame first came into Dotoriety
about fifteen months ago, when she was
arrested on the charge of poisoning the
infant of Lottie Watson, young girl from
Haywards, who was an inmate OF her es-
tablishment during her accOuchement. She
was tried and acquitted. A few months
afterward, while practicing on Howard
street as Mrs. DR.. Godfrey. she was ar
rested and charged with performing 8
criminal operation upon Amelia Donnelly,
a pretty girl. in the house Of the girls
stepfather. She was also acquitted of this
charge.