The San Francisco call., 1897-07-15

that he thought that if he spoke 10 the
| woman at that Iime of the night and in
| that lonely spot she might think that he
meant TO insult her.
There is no doubt that the woman was
insane when she committed the rash act.
She had been injured on the head about a
year ago and was taken to st. Mary's
Hospital for treatment. Ever after that
occurrence she had flighty and despondent
! spells
Miss Cowles roomed at the Sapphire
House DIT Ais Jones street, having gone
there a month and five days ago, paying
$50 in advance for a month S rent, and
seeming to be in good spirits. She in
| formed the landlady that she was taking
| music lessons and created quite good
| impression by her ladvlike ways, and
other evidences of refined and gentle
| breeding. From the end of her month
until the time of her death, which was
| five or six days, she was in arrears for the
rent OF the coming month, but she vas
! not dunned for it. She told the landlady
that she was following the stage for liv-
| ing, and that she had been singing in the
chorus al the Tivoli. She left the house
al about O. clock on Tuesday evening but
there was nothing in her manner that
would indicate that she intended 10 make
away with herself.
Iate dt uisHt, however, continued
the land ady, "a girl friend of hers, whose
name | don't know, called and said she
| wanted package of letters that Violet
had left in her room. She got them and
went away, and | then noticed that the
girls trunk had been packed az if she in
| tended going away for good. Up to that
time had expected her back.
"She had few visitors while she was
with me, and none OF her callers were
men,"
Miss M. d. Wheeler, superintendent of
the Young Women's Christian Associa-
tion, 1921 o Farrell street. says that Miss
Cloves came to that institution on March
f. 1886. and represented that she had come
from Petaluma. She was a skilled trained
nnrse, having graduated from some South
ern State. Here she remained about
week. after which she returned on April
IL. On July % she received an injury and
she was taken to ST. Mary's Hosp for
treatment.
Shortly after her arrival at the Y. M. C.
A. home Miss Cloves announced that she
was going TO study for the stage; tn at had
always been her ambition. Miss Wheeler
tried 10 dissuade her from this idea but
she was determined.
One day while rehearsing, piece of gas
fixture fell from the ceiling and struck
her on the back of the head. inflicting a
serious injury. She was treated a. ST.
Mary's Hospital, and while there en-
braced the Catholic religion. and placed
around her neck the Agnus Del and seal D.
ular which were found upon her body
when she was taken out of the water.
Miss Wheeler remarked that the injury
had i'm paired Miss Cloves reason so that
at times she was fighty and queer"
The young men, whose names Miss
Wheeler did not learn, used to visit Miss
Cloves at the Y. N. c. A. Home under
al ha L.. -
Wheeler saw OF Violet was after she had
returned from trip TO the country and
had secured EN- pley ment as a governess
Leo Cooper said last night that Miss
Cloves had been pupil OF his for some
time, ard that she turned out 10 be very
c.ever soubrette. He secured en- engage
ment for her with Rose Coghlan during
that lady's engagement at the California
Theater, ana Miss Cloves was a success.
She afierward went to Los Angeles with
the Kiralfy company, and when she re-
turned and was waiting for another en-
gagement she secured position as gov
erness in private family. d
There seemed 20 be something the
matter with her," said Mr.. Cooper "She
the time. She seemed to get fits of mel
ancholy and despondency a times
Some time after Miss Cloves received
the injury to her head she attempted
suicide while resident of the Y. M. G. A.
Home by taking morphine and chloro-
form. the doctors worked on her for sew
eral hours before they succeeded in neu.
tral.Zing the effect of the poisons. Alter
that she had frequently complained OF
pains in the head.
Deputy Coroner Mccormick took DOS
session OF the trunk of the unfortunate
woman. From papers found therein il
was learned that both her parents were
dead and that she had a brother named
w. +. Cloves residing at 2213 North
Eighteenth street. Philadelphia
There were found also several communi.
cations purporting 10 be messages from
tie spIrit land. Among them was the
following:
often write for you to right your wrong,
How manv times your lives are burdened by
unwillingness 10 acknowledge mistakes on
your part and ask forgiveness. AS long as
life lasts on earth in your weak, erring
human nature Will make mistakes and give
IF .nse. Faith and dependence on the good
spirits will lessen the number of these mis-
takes and offenses, but this is not all that is
ne cessary. There should go hand with this
willingness 10 acknowledge mistakes and ask
forgiveness Perhaps there is no other duty
in your lives thst co mes hard 10 the ma
jority of you as 10 say, was in the wrong
you were in the right
Please forgive me, and yet how many heart
aches would be spared, how many friendships
would stand the test Of time. How many