The record-union., 1897-10-31
AN UNFORTUNATE
LOVE AFFAIR.
Results in the Suicide of a Girl
Student at Berkeley.
Anna B. KOIyweIl Ends Her Life With Nor
phine Poisoning.
Ended Her Life After Receiving
Message Informing Her of the
Death of Her Lover, With
Whom She Had Had an Es-
arrangement.

OAKLAND, Oct. 80. - Miss Anna
Blythe Hollywell, a comely member of
the class of 1901 of the University OF
California, whose home is in Red
lands, committed suicide in her room,
No. 2105 Center street, Berkeley at an
early hour this morning by means of a
dose of morphine.
The young woman for the past week
has been in detected spirits, but she
studiously concealed from her associ-
ates all knowledge of what had caused
her depression.
Last night about 8 o'clock she was
heard breathing heavily in her room
by Miss H. E. Durgin, the sister of
the proprietor of the house. Miss Dur
gin entered the girls room and found
Miss Hollywen unconscious.
Miss Durgin saw that the girl was
in a dangerous condition. Mr.. Durgin
ran for several physicians but the first
to appear was DR.. Hoagland. The
doctor pronounced the case one of pois-
oning, and this fact was substantiated
by the finding of partly used bottle of
laudanum and a box containing NOR
phine. The people worked on the girl
until 1:30 O'Clock this morning, when
she died. The remains were then taken
to the Morgue.
The suicide was probably occasioned
by an affair of the heart. This is
shown by a letter which was dated at
| San Francisco on the 23d inst, which
| told of a love affair between the girl
and q young man named Arthur, but
| the family name is not given. 1t shows
that Oh the day in question Arthur
died, and the writer of the letter asks
the girl to bear up under her sorrow.
The note shows that there must have
| been an estrangenaent between the
young people, because the writer, who
signs the name of Ellis r, King, says:
He wanted to ask you himself if you
would not; now he is dead. Wear the
ring you refused to wear while he was
alive as a token of forgiveness and
reconciliation. He wished to say there
would be nothing binding in it He
freed you from all promises, and asked
to be remembered only as a friend"
Last Monday she received a tele-
gram from San Francisco which was
signed by r. J. Blythe, and read as
follows: "All is over. Do not come
now. ried yesterday"
| That night the girl was found uncon-
scious in her room from a dose of NOR
phine, but she was taken out of the
stupor soon after she was found.
The parents of the girl have been no.
| titled by the Coroner, and the father
wired that he would come to Berkeley
this evening.
Professor Paget of the State Univer-
sity, who is mentioned in the letter
says he knows nothing about the affir
and has not heard of any young man
dying recently. He did not know Miss
HoHywelI. Paget has no brother Louise
| Gardner, an intimate friend of the dead
girl, knows nothing of any love affair
of Miss Hollywell.
The suicide had obtained morphine
from Kelsey's drug store under the
name of Miss La Blanche Morphine
which had been obtained by an un-
known elderly woman from another
drug store was also found in the girls
room. A package arrived at the Berka-
! ley rostoffice to-day for Miss Hollywell
/ which presumably contains the ring.
! There is no doubt that the girl COM
mitted suicide.