The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-14

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| ever had about the house.
! Dr. Minick said he had known Of hel
, in families where he practiced, and had
| heard her spoken of as good girl.
| Mrs. Lane, l52 North Market street
| said to a reporter for the Eagle yes
| terday: Lizzie Thomas stopped with
her for a time. but she has not been
here TO stop for about six weeks.
''She was just a good. honest girl, so
far as know, and she told me that she
came here from Ohio several years
ago.
4 sometimes thought her mind was
| alittle unbalanced. She would talk
against the churches and said the peo-
| pie at the Carey tried TO poison her
| because she had found a piece OF glass
in her cup.
'She told lady here at nv house
| one day that she had always been
| honest, and that she would die rather
than live anyother way. She also said
| that at one time she had a mind 10
| throw herself into the river.
| Il seemed to have a presenta ton
after that that something was going TO
| happen TO Lizzie, and 1 wanted to go
out and hunt her up
My own family occupied my time
| and | did not know where to find Liz
zie. but one day l rode over on Law
renee avenue and / saw Lizzie passing
| along the street.
Il called TO her from the carriage
but she did not seem to hear me-. got
| out and ran after her and put my hand
on her shoulder.
she turned around and I said: Liz
zie. L want you TO keep up your cour>
age; you VIII get work and people Will
Ike you and respect you
when l said, that she turned back
her head in disdain, and said: oh.
the church people do not care for me
and with that she left me-
Then the tears sparkled in the good
Woman'S eyes, and she said she wish
ed she had made another effort to save
POOR Lizzie Thomas.
Mrs. NJ y. Hayden lives at 619 North
Main street and Miss Lizzie used
TO come there and the family al times
thought she was slightly deranged
Last evening Coroner McCollister
learned that the young lady had room
in the Stem building. He went there
and got trunk that belonged to the
dead woman.
The coroner said she had plenty of
good clothes in the trunk and lying on
a book in the room he found a letter.
which reads as follows and written
with lead pencil:
Dear Cyrus-Remember the hepDy
times We spent together when I was
grandma's little girl. and used to take
you driving. Good by all my dear
ones. / viii never meet you more. /
can endure this life no longer I have
done nothing wrong. You need not be
ashamed Of me; would sooner die"
On the reverse side Of the sheet of
paper on which the above was written,
was the following:
viii some kind person please send
this back to my nephew-Cyrus NJ.
Hale-Celina. Ohio, Mercer county"
When DR.. W. d. McClees received his
mail at noon yesterday he opened one
letter and it was from Lizzie Thomas.
who al that moment lay dead at I'm
dertaker Dunbar's.
The envelope was stamped 1880 A.
m, and ii was supposed that Miss
Thomas dropped il in the office just be-
fore she went TO the river.
Miss Thomas had come to Dr. Nc
ClesS one day when she worked at the
Carey, and asked him to prescribe for
headache or neuralgia. DR.. Nc
Clees had prescribed for the young wo-
man before and never made any |
charges because she was poor.
On this occasion he said: Lizzie /
will just write down what you want. |
and you call for the drug and it will |
not cost you as much as if / fill out a |
and he wrote down |
'anti-kamnia pellets"
She had stoppage in her speech and |
DR.. McClees told her how to pronounce
the words. The letter to DR.. McClees
was written on the same sheet Of paper
on which he had written the name of /
the medicine, and commenced directly
under the word and read as follows:
do you remember when you learned
me TO read that word? | will never
meet you more; you good, noble heart.
You were always kind and tried to
help me. I can endure this life no
hbn !
gain I wbill be dead. Bood bye, Dr.
oIcCless.
II tried very hard 10 get work but
failed / have no more money, and
would rather die than do wrong"
These were doubtless the last words
ever written by poor Lizzie Thomas.
and these letters and one or two wit
nesses was all that jury. summoned
by Coroner McCollister. wanted, and
they returned the following verdict:
An inquestion holden at Wichita,
Kan. on the 18th day of July. 1895. be-
fore. NJ NJ. McCollister. coroner -of
Sedgwick county, on the dead body of
Lizzie Thomas, there lying dead, by
jurors whose names are hereuDtO sub
scribed. The said jurors. upon their
1athS, do say that from the testimony
given. the deceased came to her death
rom drowning, with the intent of sui
tide.
W. A. FRANCIS.
JOSEPH BAILEY,
JACOB McAFEE.
s. c.. CORWIN,
J. r. DUNSON,
J. v. JONES.
Jury.
In testimony whereof. The said jur-
,rs have hereunto set their hands the
iay and year above written.
Attest: N. NJ. McCollister.
Coroner.
FUNERAL OF ALFRED BASLEY
sermon at the Presbyterian Church by DIR.
Winters. Buried 10y the Masons.
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