The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-11-22
FALLEN WOMAN.
81 Have Only Lived This Kind of . Life
Four Months" She Said.


Oregonian: Fay Clifton. aged %
years. an inmate Of Emma Nelson's
house OF ill-fame, at Sc Sixth street.
made an Intellectual attempt TO commit
suicide last night. by taking a dose OF
anti-kamnia. The prompt arrival OF a
stomach-pump saved her life. though
the woman had a close call. as she
would have been beyond all medical aid
in a few minutes more.
A few minutes after 10 O'Clock the
woman sent a messenger to the drug
and Washington streets. for acme
chloroform; but Mr.. Weidler refused
to sell the drug except on the prescrtp-
tlon OF a regular practicing physician.
A short time afterward a man rushed
into the drug store and asked Mr..
Weidler to send a doctor Immediately
to SO Sixth street. as a woman had at
tempted to commit suicide there. Mr..
Weidler notified Coroner Cornelius. who
lost no time In reaching the house. and
as soon as he learned she had taken
anti-kamnia, he sent for a stomach
pump, and. after working on her for 1b
minutes. she was out OF danger. AT
nrst It was thought she had taken some
h1ostlsePtic seslets, ssss8y-up-of corrcSf~e
sublimate. a deadly poison. as a bottle
OF them was standing on the bureau:
but fortunately for her she had pre-
ferred the anti-kamnia.
Emma Nelson, who keeps the house,
said that Fay Clifton had been in the
parlor until about 1890 o'clock. when
she went UP to her room. A short time
previously she had sent a messenger
boy out several times for something,
but she thought the woman was send
ing for face powder. A few minutes
later one OF the persons in the house
heard groans coming from bed room.
and, becoming suspicious. advised the
landlady TO break in the door, which
was locked. When the door was burst
open. the unfortunate woman was
found lying on the bed. and. surmising
she had taken poison. a physician was
Immediately sent for.
When the woman had passed through
the heroic treatment by DIR. Cornelius,
and had sufficiently revived, she con-
scented to tell why she had sought %
kill herself. Before doing so she In
sisted that all others I'm the room leave
except the doctor and reporter. and
this complied with, she said:
II have only lived this kind OF life
four months. and have had enough OF
II. When / first came here. 1 went "a
Ida Arlingtons. then to Dell Bur
rough's, and afterward took a room a,
the Mikado. / could make no money
when 1 tried so hard TO get enough tc
go back TO my baby. A few days age
came to this house. but did not make
more than enough to pay my board
and made up my mind 10 end my
troubles by killing myself. woman
with child. yet not a wife, has nc
chance In this world. Every hand Is
against her. ! was betrayed by one in
whom had confidence. and my child
now pa years of age. Is now with my
mother In Eastern Washington. felt
so desperate. so discouraged. that I did
not care to live and so took the poi.
SON"
Before taking the anti-lSamnia. the
woman addressed two letters, one &c
her father. the other 10 her mother. heI
parents being separated. and intrusted
them TO friend to post. After her re.
suscitation. the thought OF these letters
came back, and they were returned e
her.