Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-08
TRIES CHLOROFORM ROUTE
May Dillon Attempts to End Her Existence
with the Drug.
ACT CAUSED BY UNHAPPY LOVE AFFAIRS
Quarrel with Her Lover Induces the
woman TO Take Poison-Physician
Brings Her Around All
Right Again.
lcT CAUSED BY UNHAPPY LOVE AFFAIRS

I In a At OF dependency, because she
thought her lover did not intend to carry
out his promise to make her his wife, May
! Dillon, a young woman working in the fam
, lily OF F. p. Searle on Fourth street, at
tempted yesterday morning to end her life
| by means OF choroform. The attempt was
| made at the home OF her lover, Nicholas
] ]. Defries, car repairer in the employ OF
the Union Pacific, who resides with his aged
parents at $50 Fifteenth avenue. The at
tempt at self destruction was frustrated by
the timely arrival of a physician and the
administration OF antidotes
The young woman and Defries have been
keeping company for year or more and
he was in the habit Of frequently calling on
her at her employers house on Fourth street.
or late there had been frequent quarres,
at which times 1t is said that Defries had
told the young woman he had changed his
mind and he would no. marry her.
They spent the Fourth ot July together
and toward the end of the day another
quarrel ensued, Ever since the young wo-
man has been despondent and she evidently
decided that life was not worth living with
out her Nicholas. Early yesterday morning
she left the house where she works and
went to the house of Defries on Fifteenth
avenue Before entering the house she swal-
lowed the contents of large bottle of chic
roform. The aged parents of her lover were
alone in the house, their son being at work
in the Union Pacific yards The old couple
soon perceived that something was wrong
with the young woman and she admitted that
she had taken the poison. She said Mich
olas had beeL unkind to her and that she
had decided to end her existence In a
few mi lutes she became unconscious and
A Dhysician was hastily summoned he
same time the old couple dispatched a mes
senger to their son. who lost no time in re-
turning to his home.
1t was with considerable difficulty that
the young woman was restored to con-
sciouSness, owing to the large amount of the
drug she had swallowed. When brought to
she was very much annoyed that they had
not permitted her to die and she told those
attending her that there was something in
her trunk that would do the job and all
the doctors in Council Bluffs would not
be able to save her
Her sister, who had been summoned at
once fastened to the residence of the
young woman's employer and on searching
her trunk found revolver, fully loaded.
This is now in the possession Of Mrs.
Searle.
Unhappy i'm Love Affairs.
May Dlllon, for whom her employers en-
tertain tie highest regard, has been pc
ouliarly unfortunate in her love affairs.
When young girl she married man named
Dillon, who proved to be a worthless fell
low He took to gambling and when the
end Of his resources was reached commenced
to Systematically abuse his young wife |
Finally his treatment of her became such
that she was compelled to leave him and
secure divorce. Before her marriage to
Dillon the young woman had become ac-
quainted with Defries Three years ago De-
fries wife died and they renewed their
former acquaintance. The acquaintance
ripened into mutual love and about a year
ago 1t was arranged that they should marry. !
From the young womans friends 1t is
learned, however that Defries kept putting !
off the marriage day from time to time and
it was this that caused the frequent quar-
rels 1t Is believed that on the Fourth De- |
fries told the young woman that he had
made up his mind not to marry her and that |
she must consider the engagement as off. |
This made her despondent and her employers !
noticed that there was something wrong, |
but put it down to another quarrel between |
her and her lover.
The attending physician reported yester- |
day afternoon that Mrs. Dillon was out of
danger but that it would be at least two
days before she could be removed from |
the Defries residence. II was said yester- |
day that Defres had repented of his un- |
kindness TO the young woman and that as
soon she was recovered the services |
of a minister would be called into requisi- |
ton.
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