The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-12-03
JULIA'S ESCAPADE.
Gossip Drove Her to Take
Paris Green But She
Will Live.

Julia Mara, a pretty young girl OF
twenty, lies his morning in the City
Hospital recovering from the effects of a
dose of Paris green, taken Tuesday night
in a fit of dependency over the fact that
neighbors gossiped about her, and that
she had lost her position as a result of
their gossip.
Julia lives with her sister and brother
in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. John Quinn. at No.
116 Beacon avenue. but until last week
she was employed as a servan by Mrs.
Keller. of No. IA Laidlaw avenu On
Saturday she lost her position and re-
turned to live with her bro~ther-in-law.
Quinn noticed thai Julia seemed heart
sick Respondent over something, but
supposed she felt chagrined at losing
her place. On Tuesday night she went
out about six O'Clock and did not return
until half-past eleven. She was pale,
trembling and hardly able to stand from
the agony she evidently suffered. Quinn
carried the girl to bed, where she gasped
OUT
1T is no use. John. I can't stand the
scandal. I " taken poison. 1 think
that God win forgive me-"
Quinn questioned her and she told the
following pathetic story:-one evening
about six weeks ago a girl friend, whose
name she refused to give, invited her to
meet two unknown men. Julia at first
objected. but the girl friend persuaded
her by arguing that the men were re-
spectacle and that they could have a quiet
drive and a supper. Julia consented and
the two girls met the two men at a point
on the outskirts of the city. Julia recog-
nized the men as George Harrington, who
lives on Jefferson street near Oakland
avenue, and the other as a man named
Gallagher, who works for Daniel Tully.
a peddler.
The four entered a closed carriage,
which the men had in waiting, and drove
across the meadows toward Secaucus.
Stops were made at road houses, but the
girls declined to drink. The men began
to make improper advances. which the
girls resented. Finally the men with
brutal force put the two girls out of the
carriage on the road and drove away.
The girls found themselves on the
lonely road bordering the Hackensack
cold. They did not know which way to
turn and so walked in the direction of
the nearest lights. 1t was daylight when
Julia and her companion knocked at the
door of a road-house and half dead with
exposure and fright asked for shelter.
The landlord was touched with pity and
drove the girls home.
The details of the escapade leaked out
in a few days and the worst constructor
was put on the night of suffering the
girls had spent on the meadows. 1t
reached the ears of Julia's employer,
Mrs. Keller, and the poor girl was dis
charged. She returned to her brother
in-law's, at Beacon avenue, and was
taken in as one of the family. But scandal
with busy tongue still assailed her ears,
and everywhere she heard sly remarks
and i~nsinuations even among her friends.
On Thanksgiving night she attended a
ball and the treatment she received nearly
broke her heart. She could stand it no
longer and on Tuesday she resolved to
end her suffering.
she says she was guilty of no wrong
and would never have accompanied these
fellows if she had not supposed all was
right.
Prompt attention at the hospital has
saved her life and in a few days the doc
tors say she will be out again.
Harrington and Gallagher are keeping
out of sight and cannot be found.