St. Paul daily globe., 1895-07-01
NEVADA LANGTRY, A DUsKY
MAIDEN, GREW TIRED OF
LIVING.
SHE SWALLOWED POISON
But DIR. HANEEY AND POLICE
MAN NEWCOMBE SAVED
HER LIFE.
TRAGEDY TURNED TO COMEDY
The WouId-Be Suicide Joins IN
Hilarity Produced by Her
Condition.

Nevada Langtry is the name of a
young colored woman who tried to
poison herself last evening at 123h
West Third street. She did not sue
ceed, because DR.. Hanley. the city
physician, and officer Pat New
combe were close at hand.
Nevada is a maiden of twenty
one, slender and real dark, not at
all bad looking except for the rakish
manner in which she wears her hair.
1t is not put on so securely, either,
that it cannot be shaken off. She
has been complaining of sickness
lately, and for part of the time has
been confined to her bed. Katie
Sutton, landlady of the fiat where
the Langtry woman rooms, is a
working woman herself, and it is
supposed she had told her roomer
that she could not keep her any
longer.
Langtry became respondent and
downcast, and about $50 yesterday
afternoon, while Miss Sutton was
present, she swallowed an ounce of
laudanum,a at the same time announc-
ing her intention of quitting all
earthly troubles. Use gwine to leave
yo' ALL" she said, resignedly; but
Miss Sutton wouldn't have it that
way. She called Officer Newcombe,
and he sent word to DR.. Hanley. A
few friends of the women also
dropped in, and, despite the danger,
the subsequent proceedings were
funny enough to make an under
taker smile.
DR.. Hanley found Miss Sutton
lecturing Nevada in a style vimful
enough to keep her awake, notwith-
standing she was full of laudanum
and a determination to die.
II hope when yo' go to heaven
yo'll tell Gawd jess what yo' ben
a-dpin' down yere."
"SDeed I won't" retorted Nevada
sleepiIy, " 'kase he nevah would fo'giv
me then" But the deadly drug was
at work, and she was fast becoming
dead to the world and her troubles.
The doctor and the policeman
tackled the languishing lily and began
a course of heroic treatment. Hanley
gave her a powerful emetic, and
then. one on each side, they marched
her up and down the small room.
They swcltered but they persevered.
An old slipper was used to reinforce
the offers club in keeping the sense
of feeling alive in the willowy form
of the respondent maiden. DR.. Han
ley's emetic kept getting in it's work
all this time, and the impromptu
guides stood at arms length while
Nevada unwillingly gave up the laud-
anum and everything else.
Ever and anon she would slip from
the tired grasp of the physician and
the peeler and sink dejectedly to the
floor, a picture of misery, but with
a look on her face that is simply in
describable. Two stout young col
ored men relieved Hanley and New
combe, and several friends of Miss
Sutton patted juba for the walk
around. There was plenty of SYM
pathy for the unfortunate girl. but
her utter righteousness in her half
sleepy movements was too much. Sol
emnity could not exist in the same
room with the Langtry's tragic COM
icality. At times she would brace up
sufficiently to join momentarily in the
hilarity, and then the situation was
akin to a cake walk on a holiday
night.
When Nevada was sufficiently re-
covered to sit upright on a chair DR..
Hanley ordered her sent to the city
hospital. She rebelled, but Miss SUIT
ton gave her face a cold water bath
and made her get into a street dress,
even while she protested. A hack was
called, and soon the would-be suicide
was landed at the hospital. At a late
hour last night she was reported out
of danger.