St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-24

both hips, her spine and several of the
ribs on her right side, as well as crush
ed her skull. Just slipping from the
left hand Of her outstretched arm was
| black fur muff. Still in place about
her neck was a muskrat boa Her
broad hat of black felt lay partly
! across the forehead Of a plump and
youthful face, whose hall, open hazel
| eyes and delicate lips, parted across
! small white teeth, were smiling at
death. Her dress was of dark dag
onal goods, her jacket dark blue, with
large bone buttons One overshoe had
| dropped from new buttoned shoe
The body was found by a youth
| named Frank Breen, the son of a Ia
| borer living in the vicinity. The young
| woman had fallen from the east side
| or the bridge at a point about 300 feet
distant from the Smith avenue ap-
proach, and some distance from the
river bank. Breen notified the central
police station, from which word was
sent to Coroner Whitcomb The latter
reached the spot within an hour. He
found no purse upon or near the dead
woman; no articles of any kind within
her pockets; no jewelry upon her, save
a small pearl-studded pin, which unit
ed her collar. The coroner sent the
remains to the undertaking rooms Of
| O'Halloran & Murphy, where an eX-
animation revealed the frightful frac-
lures already mentioned The girl, had
| weighed about 125 pounds, and her
| beauty harmoniZed with her evident
good health. Throughout the after
noon a multitude of strangers called
TO view the remains. Many had seen
| her before, but none could tell her
name. AT last, about 6 O'Clock, young
man named Benjamin Allen came slow
| ly~in and paused before the chair on
Which lay the dead girls clothing, He
took her blue jacket abstractedly in his
| hands, and then turned heSitatingly to
catch glimpse of her frozen face. He
was an intimate friend. Scarcely able
to control himself, he told the under
taker that the dead girl was Dottie
Lamb, dressmaker, twenty-five years
| old, who lived at the boarding house
of Mrs. James A. Cane 27O West Sew
enth street. Her father is farmer,
whose home is at Castle Rock, near
Pennington, in. this state. She was
| the eldest OF three children, and had
made her own living in st. Paul since
her eighteenth year. She had formerly
| resided with her aunt, uncle and ma
ternal grandparents at 173 South Wa
basha street, but had left there last
September owing to some trifling dis
! agreement.
Allen was formerly a clerk in tie
employ of the Northern Pacific rail
road and the Terminal Dispatch asso-
citation, and lives in the building at 173
| South WabaSha street. Said Mr. Allen
to reporter: I've known Miss Lamb
since last May, and we were very good
friends. l don't understand why she
| should have killed herself, but there's
no doubt she did do it, She's often
threatened to do something of the sort
| Where she used to work last summer
the other girls got to talking about
prussic acid. and she had it in her
| head after that that she would like
| to get some of the acid because it
kills so quick she would say. But if
I asked her why she wanted to die.
she would only answer I can't tell you
| that. She was never sick and never
complained Of her health. Her folks
| were always healthy and there was no
insanity, l think, in the family It's
true Dottie had some little trouble re-
| Gently about check she got from a
| dressmaker for some work. She had the
check cashed by groceryman near
| Seven Corners, and the bank would
not honor the check. But the dress
maker was going to fix it up, and the
| amount wasn't large. Then, perhaps,
| Dottie owed very little money for
| her board, but she had been working
quite regularly, and she had just got
a new place. Perhaps the trouble
was about Harry May. He is a tel
| egraph operator, and he lives at Moor
head. He met her about two years
ago. For more than O. year, though.
he's been up there and in Wyoming.
| He was down here to see Dottie for a
day or two about Sept. 1. have under
| stood from her that they had set the
date for the wedding once or twice,
but always changed it, and I don't
know whether she was really anxious
| to marry anybody just yet. Yes, 1
knew her perhaps as well as any man
| except May. Dottie and I used to go
| out evenings occasionally, and I called
! last Tuesday to take her to see the pa
| 1ade, but she said she didn't want to
| go. Why don't your / asked oh,
| I just don't, that's ALL You know
how girls are. Then said I'd come up
| last night or tonight-Thursdsy. She
said All right and when I left her
boarding house she was quite cheerful
| Well, Dottie was an awful good girl
very quiet and ladylike. But she was so
sensitive that everything discouraged
| her"
Miss Carrie Price. dressmaker at