St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-15
WAS TAKEN BY MRS. ROSI
GARDNER TO END HER UN- i
HAPPY LIFE
CAME HERE FROM MONTANA
TO VISIT RELATIVES, WHO RE-
CEIVED HER VERY
COLDLY.
GREW ILL AND DEsPoNDENTa
And on Sunday Morning Took
POisOn-Arrest of Her Only
Friend.


an of twenty-five years, who came
to this city a stranger on July III
lies dead in Mccarthy & Donnelly's I
morgue, the victim of twenty grains
of morphine alleged to have been1
administered by her own hand and1
evidently with suicidal intent.
Charles M. Shepard, young man
about whom little or nothing is [
known, but who was the last person
death, is detained at the centraIi
police station on instructions fronl:i
County Attorney Butler and Deputyi
Coroner J. G. Mcnamara, pendingl
the result of the post-mortem ex-
animation, which will be held at 8 {!
o'clock this morning by DR.. McNa- /
mara. Shepard is not really under |
arrest, for it is believed that the I
case is one of suicide, but the Off
until satisfied beyond question that
he had no hand in the woman's
death.
Little is known of Mrs. Gardner. I
Her career in this city was brief {
and shrouded in mystery. Despon- /
dency and poverty and separation I
from her husband are alleged as the I
causes which led her to take herI
own life. She claimed to have a hus- |
band in Demarsville, three miles [
south of Kalispell, Mont He was
poor, work was slack, and he man.
aged to rake enough money together.l
to send her here to remain a while
with either his or her mother, it is
not clear as yet which. The reIa-
tives here met the poor woman cold
ly and
REFUSED TO TAKE HER IN.
From that hour her wanderings
about st. Paul began and finally
ended in her tragic death at the
Hampton house, Isl East Third
street, early Sunday morning. She
had taken the poison early in the
morning, it appears, and attention
was attracted to her room by her
groans and supplication for aid. 1t
was impossible to secure physi-
clan. Half dozen were called, but
none were in, and the woman died
without having received any medical
attendance. 1t is thought she might
have been saved had a physician
reached her in time. 1t was 1910
yesterday morning when she was
discovered. Two hours later she was
dead.
While Mrs. Gardner died under
mysterious circumstances, there is
no one to say that her character was
not above reproach, although some
circumstances connected with her
stay in the city were unusual.
On the morning of July z she
alighted from a train at the union
depot, and reaching the carriage
shed she was besieged by a num-
Der of cabmen and hack drivers eag-
er for her patronage. Conspicuous
IN the crowd was a Frenchman
named Barbeau. To his request that
she ride with him, she replied:
Il do not care to ride; L am lookiu.
for some one"
For whom aee you lookinS?" was
Barbeau's inquiry
For a travelling man who promises
~ iic, was MfS. ~CTalQner s
somewhat startling reply. And Bar
beau was just as inquisitive as before.
for he asked:
And where does he live?"
Somewhere near Smith park ha
said was the woman's answer. She
looked vainly for the travelling man:
then Barbeau, seeing her perpIexity,
said he would take her to breakfast.
as she said she had not eaten any
thing that morning. Barbeau took her
to Wagner's restaurant, between Third
and jackson, and told the proprietor
to give her all she wanted, then he left
Mrs. Gardner got into conversations
with one of the mattresses, ate her!
breakfast leisurely, then departed. She
went direct from the restaurant to see
the relatives she had come to visit,
They gave her no welcome. Sick att
heart she turned away and
WANDERED AIMLESSLY
down street. Her steps led her to the
Lexington hotel, corner Of Fourth and
Wabasha- She stepped into the hall
way and the barkeeper came out to
serve her. She asked for a room and
he told her it would be fifty cents. She
drank two glasses of wine while she
stood there and then went to her room,
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