The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-12
CAME HERE TO END LIFE
MISS JENNIE DOTY. 4 HANDSOME
YOUNG WOMAN. ATTEMPTS SUICIDE.
shoots Herself in n Room at the rand
Evidently Had "a Quarrel with
Her Ohio Lover.


CO. to which she retired at once. She had
been in her room but a short time when
she sent for writing materials. Mr.. Ell
lott sent her the necessary articles by the
bellboy. and no more was seen of her
until she was discovered yesterday after
noon with "A bullet hole in her head and
note asking that she be buried in her
wedding clothes
II was not thought strange that the
young woman having arrived so late at
night. should sleep late in the day, and no
attempt was made to disturb her until
afternoon. Then the chambermaid tried
to get into the room. She found it locked
and no one answered her knocks She re-
ported the state of affairs TO Mr.. Elliott
who ordered bellboy to effect an entrance
by some means. thinking perhaps the
woman was sick and i'm need OF aid. The
boy crawled out on to the narrow ledge
which surrounds the second floor and got
into the room through the window. He
saw the woman in bed, the coverlet pulled
up close under her chin and her face deadly
white. He did not stop to examine fur
Their, but let the maid in at once and ran
downstairs to tell Mr.. Elliott to send for
doctor. In the meantime the maid had
discovered what she thought was a suicide.
small twenty-five caliber revolver on
the floor beside the bed. and a tiny bullet
hole in the right temple were what she
found. The pillow was stained with blood
and the thick hair was clotted with it,
showing that the shot must have been fired
at least two hours before.
THE NOTE SHE LEFT.
The young woman had gone to bed with
out undressing, taking off nothing but her
shoes. By the side of the bed was the fol-
lowing note:
ITO whom it may concern: Hold no au-
topsy. but bury me in my wedding clothes.
as as | am now Notify r. Alice Doty, 10
Clinton street. Middletown, o."
Sealed letters were also found addressed
to Miss Alice Doty and to Mrs. Levy Ell
lott. Woodbridge Ontario. Canada
When DR.. Gray arrived he made ex-
animation and found that the woman was
not dead, as supposed. Her pulse was still
strong and he thought she might live. He
sent for an ambulance and she was at once
conveyed TO the City Hospital.
At the hospital it was soon discovered
that the woman's wound not of a very
serious nature. Superintendent Ferguson
dressed the wound himself. He found the
bullet had entered the right temple, and
that it's course had been in a direction
away from the brain. He thought at first
that the ball might have lodged close TO
the point of starting. and a probe was run
into the wound a short distance. 1t was
discovered that the ball did not enter the
brain. but just where il slodged could not
be determined. There was large swelling
of the right jaw and this was taken as AN
indication that the ball ranged downward.
However, the ball not located. DR..
Ferguson said late last night that the
wound would not prove fatal.
almost tn
that inflicted upon himself several years
ago by John Bloom. Bloom was insane at
the time he attempted TO end his life. He
shot himself and jumped off the White
river bridge at Washington street. He was
sent TO the City Hospital and his physical
health was restored. He was then trans
ferred TO the insane hospital. and is now
well. mentally and physically. He called
at the hospital not long ago and learned
for the first time the true account of his
own attempt at self-destruction.
HER RAVING AT THE HOSPITAL.
Jennie Doty is evidently a married
woman. When first taken to the hospital
she was diirious and talked in her raw
ings. This is the only information aside
from the note left at the Grand Hotel by
which TO identify her.
"Oh. Minnie; you know 1 did not deceive
Oliver" she would say at one time. and
again. You used to be always kind to me-
Oliver, and then she would scream and
say:
Don't strike me, Oliver. oh. how can
you. when you were always so kind to
me-"
nurses at the hospital to signify that she
Is q wife who has been falsely accused of
infidelity by her husband, and the charge
preyed upon her mind until she became
desperate and came away from home to
The note left by the woman at the Grand
Hotel requesting that she be buried just
as she was, lin my wedding Clothes" must
have been written by a person of unbaI-
anced mind. Her dress is far from a wed
ding gown, thought ii might have been the
black serge, made UP for street wear.
From her clothing and jewelry it would
app pa that she is woman of not above
neat enough. but of cheap material and
ineXpensively made. She had filled gold
of cheap rings. Two of them are '' aoId
plated, and one is made of a piece of old
silver coin.
In appearance the woman is rather hand
some. She Is about twenty-one years old
and OF medium stature. She has "a heavy
head OF light brown hair, hanging to her
waist. In spite of the abundance of nat
ural hair she wore large switch. AS she
lay upon the white cot at the hospital
sleeping IL would never be surmised by a
stranger s that she had but a few hours be-
fore shot herself in the head. She was
dressed IN white gown and there was no
sign or blood. simple bandage about the
mead was all there was TO indicate the
presence OF the wound. About o'clock
yesterday evening the opiates administered
TO the patient affected her and she fell into
restless sleep which lasted until after
O'Clock. When she awoke the drug still
aHected her and she remained in q semi
stupor Tor several hours. Her condition
was pronounced hopeful The physicians
think II Will only he a short time until she
will be herself again.
In Room 81 at the Grand, next TO the
one occupied by the young woman. was a
travelling man named Morris Lacey. He is
totally blind and from that cause his sense
or nearing Is perhaps more acute. Mr.
Lacey says That about ocl0ck yesterday
morning he heard what he now thinks was
pistol shot. He thought nothing of the
matter at the time, but is confident now
that II was the shot he heard. No one else
about the place heard a sound of the ex-
plosion.
The bellboy who took the young woman
| TO her room and afterwards took heI
writing material, says he noticed something
| peculiar IN her manner. When he took
| her 10 the room she seated herself at the
| hands. saying not a word When he took
| her the paper and ink she In the same
| position, and he thought then she was
grieving about something.
| two persons for whom the woman had lef
| letters. and last night received "a dispatch
from Ollver Cousins, Middetown, O. The
| telegram read as follows
| WIRE: my expense. particulars of suicide
| 81 Jennie Doty. Is she still livingP II so
| how long can she live? Answer quick"
| Oliver Cousins Is doubtless the oliver
| about whom Miss Doty talked i'm her de
| lirious rawlings, but just what Relationship
| he bears TO the young woman is the ques
ton.
An Associated Press dispatch from Mid
| dleton received last night said;