The San Francisco call., 1897-11-02

The girl in the effort to ease her suffer
| ings had become addicted to the use of
morphine. Everything tended to prove
| it, even TO her own confession TO DR.. East
man and the drug clerk from whom she
! once purchased a small quantity of the
drug. The fact was so fully established
at the inquest yesterday that even her
father admitted 1t afterward.
The Coroner s inquest on the dead girl
was the feature of the case In Berkeley
! yesterday, for the peoDle had had two
! days in which to discuss IL and had be-
come fairly we'll convinced that Miss
/ Holywell had ended her own life, but
there were still mysterious features which
it was expected The inquest would dissi-
pate. The sudden ad jOurnment until this
evening prevented all the facts beln :,
! brought out, to the keen disappointment
] OF the crowds that gathered in and bout
! the little room where the proceedings
( were held.
After the session of the Coroner's in
quest the body OF the unhappy young
! girl was prepared for the journey home
home TO the mother and sisters in far
away sunny Redlands, where lhey were
waiting to receive her.
A Jew friends of the girl aided the dis
tracted father in this last Office. Robed
in the pure white dress she wore when she
was graduated from the Redlands High
/
black clotn casket, which was eEcased in
a pine box.
By 4 O'Clock everything was in readi-
ness, aud Mr.. holywell went to the Dur
/ gin residence 10 superintend the removal
of his child's effects 10 the depot. Two
! trunks and as many hand-satchels wAre
loaded on a truck and uundled down
10 the station. Soon alter the rough box
| arrived on another truck and was wheeled
! alOn gSlGe the first.
haIf-doz.n waiting passengers stared
| curiously at the case, beside which stood
the lone mourner Poor unhappy parent
| His has been terrible ordeal, and one he
has had TO bear it unsupported. As he
stood beside all that remained OF his
loved one, bent with the weight Of his sor-
row, even the stran ,ers as they gazed un-
consciously mu NJ u ed words of heartfelt
| sympathy.
Box ana baggage were loaded on the
train that left Berkeley at 4 80 o clock, the
father standing guard over them until
they we're safely on board, then he
elm bed up the steps and the long jour
ney was begun.
AT Sixteenth street a transfer was mad G
to the Los Angeles express, and to-day
the dead will be with those whose every
| thought was for her.
During the afternoon Mr.: Bolywell
spoke OF his daughter and ner atftIctlon
an l1c CfIuCHCc W LIZ
contrary. Mr.. Holywell still cherlshes the
belief that his child took an overdose o1
morphine by accident, ard not with sui
cidal intent.
'She has been great sufferer fol
years" sid the bereaved parent, mo-
from one bu: from many causes Ex'
cessive application 10 her books so affected
her nervous system that sne could not
sleep. This, in addition to her other all
ment>, 10 which DIR Eastman referred In
his testimony to-day and which she has
suffered from almost ever since she
reached womanhood, has caused her un-
told agony.
''As if this were not enough the poor
child feet have troubled her so for wears
that she has been little better than g
cripple. Twice she has had 20 undergo an
operation for ingrowing nails, and the
pain caused by waking was so great thai
she stepped in most peculiar manner
placing her feet fat upon the ground in
stead of bending the ankle and raising or
the ball of the foot.
My daughter undoubtedly took NOR.
phine to alleviate her sufferings, but it
only since she came to Berkeley that she
became addicted 10 its use. While she