The times., 1897-05-24
IDA JORDANs RASH ACT
Attempts TO End Her Life With
Laudanum and Sweet Oil.
FOR A BLONDE MUSTACHE
Found Dropping in the Street by
Two Young Men, Who Rescued
Her None Too Soon Taken to the
Emergency Hospital. Resuscitatas
and Tells Her Woes to the Doctors.

twas fortunatefor little Miss ida Jordan
That she chose 10 end her life upon the
public streets, otherwise she might have
succeeded in the attempt, and obviatel
the trouble of trying 1T again, as she says
She Will do if she recovers
Ida is very i'll, however. and IL she gets
well 1T will not be because her effort TO
do away with herself was mot desperate
Miss Ida is but child, not yet sey en-
teen years OF age, but she is pretty and has
love affairs, ana that is the cause OF her
swallowing two ounces OF Iaudanun
i6 was shortly after 8 o'clock last night
when two young men, Mr. j. j. Smith and
MIR. Clarence o. Maddox, passing along F
street, saw pretty young girl sitting
on the stone steps in front of Hugo s
lunchrooms Her head was bowed aud
she was reclining in the arms OF a friendly
lady, who had observed the girls distre IS
and sought to aid her.
The young men offered their assistance.
and one of them saw two bottles sitting
on the step beside the girl They were
both cumbersome yeast powder bottles,
and one bore u label marked laudanmn and
the other sweet oil, which had been pur-
chased at Prentiss' drug store, at New
York avenue and Ninth street
The two young men took In the situation
at once, and picking up the helpless girl,
carried her into Evans drug store. A
telephone call was at once sent for the
Emergency ambulance, and the would-be
suicide was removed to the hospital.
III was none too soon, for tie young
woman was already under the effects OF
the strong narcotic, and it was only the
prompt action OF Dr.. Turner and DR. Bohr
in applying antidotes and tile stomach
pump that saved Ida's life
When she had sufficiently recovered to
converse she told the story OF her love
affairs, umid and with hesitation at first
and then with flow OF tears, which made
everybody sympathize with her At first
she said there was no man in the case, and
then it developed there were two.
Ida is the daughter OF Harry Jordan, a
carpenter, living at No IT Myrtle street
northeast Her mother is dead, but her
stepmother is good to her, and it was
not because of her that the girl wished to
die. She has gentleman friend, so she
says, nice young man, too, with small
blonde mustache, He loves Ida, and Ida
famous in song. His name she does
not care TO tell, because that is nobody's
business
Unfortunately for Miss Ida, and cruelty.
too, she thinks her papa objects to her
keeping company with this young man
and is said to have frequently reprinauded
his daughter.
He is said to have chosen an old man to
be her lover, and many are the bitter tears
Ida has shed because OF this She says she
would prefer TO be a young mans slave
than an cid mans darling. The nei ghhors,
too. all know OF the girls love and her
fathers desire, and as Ida is regarded as
being far more beautiful than the average
nader of seventeen summers, she is also
regarded as the belle of that vicinity
Yesterday afternoon the Young man with
the blonde mustache called 1t is not
known whether there as then any parental
interference. Ida was blithe and gay
all day Sunday, and dressed up in her best
and started out about 7:3O last night.
She looked exquidtely sweet as she
tripped along down the street, and the
neighbors SO remarked. Her parents
thought she was going to visit her grand
mother. They had not the slightest init
nation that she intended TO commit suicide
The next heard of her was when Mr. Smith
and Mr.. Maddox found her at Tenth and
T streets, and when she, but for their
opportune arrival on the scene, would have
been past recovery in a short time
She was sent to a ward, and late last
night was reported as doing well.