St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-05-20
SHAME AND POISON
An ATTRACTIVE SHOP GIRL SUE
CIDES BY SWALLOWING /
/, ARSENIC.
SHE WAS NETTIE ORDEMANN
DAUGHTER OF A RESPECTABLE
MECHANIC LIVING ON THE
WEST SIDE.
DISCARDED DY HER LOVER.
She Seemed Determined to LeaY0
Her Home and Go to the
Bad Entirely.

Tilted by her lover, pretty Nettie
Ordemann, Of West st. Paul, took a
dose of arsenic Saturday night that
sent her spirit to the realm beyond
at o'clock yesterday morning. 1t is
the old, old story of a woman's fall
from her first surrender to tempta-
ton until she winds up in the grave,
or that more abhorrent place, the
gutter
Nettie Ordemann was twenty-one
years of age, and her goods looks were
not confined to her face alone, but
were heightened by a very attractive
form and lively manner. Her fathers
name is Fred Ordemann, and he lives
at 346 South Robert street. Previ-
GUS to year ago Nettie clerked at
Schuneman & Evans store. Just
about the time she left the store Alex
ander Walter, a clerk in the store,
began keeping company with her, and
has continued to go with her ever
since. Previous to this she had been
living at home, but as soon az she
found her lover deserting he's SAD left
home.
Walter finally induced her to return
to her home, and he continued to pay
attentions to her against his own per-
sonal desires. Waiter admits that
he was watching An opportun-
ity to break with her, and it Is
probable that the girl understood this,
for Saturday she left home again and
went to the room Of girl named Ada,
who stops at the Velo house.
Before going to the Vclo house she
met Walter and told him she had left
home again. Walter advised her to re-
turn, and she promised to do So He
was surprised when he went to Ada's
room about 8 o'clock in the evening,
Nettie having sent him word to come
and see her there, and she informed
him that she had changed her mind
and was not going home. Walter says
this made him a trife angry, and,
without parleying with the girl, he
went out and told her he was done
with her. He then went across the
street to Mason's saloon. About II
O'Clock Nettie went over to the saloon
and found him In the wine rooms.
Pulling theNlabel of bottle of arsenic
from her bosom, she informed him that
she
HAD POISONED HERSELF.
II told her she must go home" said
Walter in relating the story to a
G o b reporter, "but she still said
she would not. She made NE quite
angry, and we had some hot words.
finally got her to consent to get into a
hack and go home. When we reached
her home, she was getting very sick. I
got her into the house and summoned
couple of doctors. L waited some
time after the doctors got to work on
her, and she seemed to be getting along
pretty well. / then told her would
come back to town in the hack, but
would go over to see how she was get
ting along In the morning. I did not
get up this morning until clock and
was just dressing to go over when the
officer came in and told me she was
dead.''
Walter said he found a bottle of CO.
caine in her stocking when she reached
home, and she confessed that she had
also taken some. of this drug. He was
satisfied that she was not given to US
ing cocaine, but had taken it so that
her suffering from the arsenic might
be less.
Sergeant Hanft took Walter over to
the Ducas street station yesterday
morning, where he was questioned re-
garding his knowledge of the affair."
His story being satisfactory, he was re-
leased.
The dead girls body was taken to
the Hurley undertaking rooms, on
South Wabasha street, where an au-
topsy was held by Deputy Coroner DR..
Mcnamara and DR.. Finell. Her
mother was almost distracted by the
sad end of her child. The father, who
runs a little paint shop. was in Mime
apolis when the affair happened, but he
arrived home before the end came.
NETTIE WAS INCORRIGIBLE.
Appearances at first were rather un-
favorable to Walter. But story
told to Clio e reporter last
night by a young fellow who is well
known to incline to the Sporty side
of life relieves Walter of all RESPONSE
bility for the girls fall. The young
man referred to does not even know
Walter He said:
81 have known Nettie for over two
years, and she has been wild as long
as | have known her. Only a few
days ago L and friend met her on the
street and my friend said: Hello. Net,
where are you keeping yourself these
days% She replied, oh, l have been
stopping at home, but 1 am going
away pretty soon. L am going to
Chicago 1t did not surprise me to
hear that she had committed suicide.
L have known her to take as much as
an ounce of chlorOfo1.m -