The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-02-17
SLAVE TO MORPHINE.
PisifuI Condition Of the Would
Be Suicide.
4 wanDgRER FROM cLALLAM.
Mrs. Burnside Tried In Vain fo Drown
and Talked OF Staying Her Child
Pines For the Drug.

The woman zfss was rnenttonef e tie
5soss-frsel!sge ueer yesterday morning as
s,elru rescued FRESH the bay rear the
Iys.sor EIeetrsc eoszspanv's works IN =
x1t,ssl conditions Was nsone other than
Maks3 ps9ragsIe the Tuost pronounced q
,,,orr8hize and cocoaire fiends. who has
caused fne Bureau OF Associated Char
t;ses and the county commissioners M
scsa trouble.
Fer aesrsae time after she vas rescued
By william Jones and one or two otherz
anf had been placed ~ the hantis NJ
Police Matron Taylor ard cts T'hHsseiza
Palmer site aes@si su a Wild nugoYernabie
sslanner. When a ost-Iuf eIliCeHcer re-
porter saw Mrs. Taylor al : o'clock Sat
urasy morning sweat was rolling from
her face. caused by her efforts 20 keep
tho unhappy woman quiet. tn AID TO the
general CONSERVATION. Mrs Burnside an
noGHeed 81 her rawlings that shs bad killed
her beautiful ilifle child Eva THIS
caused the impression Ia prevail among
all tas people q. headquarters thar she
had thrown the child into the hay ct .he
came sieae sse tried 70 end her own nm
happy goad -farsnothins lie. Officers and
detectives we're travelling toward the
fnion electric light wgsks 10 search for
tls child when officer Dexter ieisphoned
70 headquarters that be had fosnd the
little one Ia rooTrl At the Garfield house
In BlacsehageI.
Police Matr0n Taylor was again called
into aeryiee aud soon had the child ar
her homo on y4aier avenue
Il haven't got any mamma now." said
80 esllid.
Where IS ssss7' asised the natron.
..she Jumped IN the bay"
WHO told yosi ihat7"
.'Manata sgli me before she went
sway"
Tho child had a correct l.iea Of what
rad happened, and aid not seem 10 care
what became Of her mother. for when
the lsafron asked wi1s, sac would 10 for
a new mother she replied ulssesitatlngiy:
''oh. will take YOU. guess''
During the day Mrs. Burnside admitted
that she nad made a deliberate attempt
90 XII hecssG. but miscaleulated the
Dept, Of the water. She chose a place
where sAe thought 1t VAS seven or eight
feet deep. bnt on Jumping IN found that
II as3 oss}s un 80 her waist SHE said she
wadfd around for over half an hour try
ing 10 nnf q deep place and then gave 1t
up During her stay u the water she evil
IDENTITY fan aeaiHsf logs and other ohsta-
.les. foT she = a very much battered end
bruised specimen ef wrecked humanity
Gratitude does not eater into her make
up. for as she lay tn her cell at heaaauar-
tiers she called J. ". Gilmer. superintead-
ent Of tiia Bureau Of Associated Charities.
ell the bad names the most common we
man OF the town would use. To a person
nnacanainted with the facts In the case.
she would make Ii appear that Mr.. a;n-
mer had treated her shamefuny. She
claims he Is keeping her clothes from her
when she reeds them. Every time She
usaAes those statements she knows she IL
aying anu that In truth she IL under ever
lasting obligations TO the bureau renre
seafee By Mr.. GlFqntF If II had nat heen
Tor TIE bureau and the kind people who
aivea near her In the Lake Union district.
before she was sent To- the county hoepstai
the last time. the child would have proba-
oily died from want and exposure while
she law Ia some gutter. Mrs. Burnside
pawned her clothes TO get food. which.
being truly translated. means morphine
or cocaine. The deadly drugs have be-
GENE part Of her being. Yesterday att
ernoon SHE ran around her cell Ike a mad
woman. yelling out;
WHO has taken my trunk and bureau
from this room. There was morphine In
the hareaa drawer, put Il there and
they have taken 81 away
Il guess sou don't know where YOU
ate. said Mrs Taylor
''oh. yes. yes. l remember now" she
replied. III WIS 81 the hotel that they
kept my trunk know nov where l
am
WHAT VIII he done with her Is quite a
problem She dropped tn on King com
~ from Ciallam county. where her
hrether-lu-iaw or some other relative
hves and during her stay has given more
trouble than any Ten ether persons during
the same time, Now she Will not 90 back
20 The county hospital and County Com
saissia1er Gaseh SAYS abe could no, II she
wanted 10. He IS tired and disguised with
her and wasts nothing more To 10 with
her. Through AIR Gasch. Mr.. Giirner re-
deemed Tire clothes Mrs Burnside had
rawnea 10 get money 10 satisfy her spfss-
ate. New Mr.. Glimer takes the Wise
stand that she cannot have the clothes
unlu she Il ir a place whore she will hl,
properly cared fer IL she got possession
II we'la net ne more than day ar SO ne
fore shry would le In PAWN again.
Y Ia ras4ihle that the superior caert
may lse called uron u examine her as 20
her sanity nr Whiting. the county phy-
stefan says Der mlud Is effected ara her
actions IN the cell ST headaaarters we're
peculiar az best.