Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-06
FRUSTRATED BY
Jh[ER BOYLE
Tenderloin Woman Tries to
Kill Herself.
SEVERAL VAIN EFFORTS
Tried Hanging, Burning and Strarg-
ulation to Accomplish Self
Destruction.
SEVERAL VAIN EFFORTS

Anxious to cross the dark river Cora
Larger, a young Tenderloin woman,
made half a dozen attempts to commit
suicide in the city Jail his morning.
Each attempt was frustrated by the in
defatigable efforts ON Jailer Thomas
Boyle, whose time for several hours was
devoted the rescue work. That the wo-
man is alive is due entirely to his vigil
lance. He got little for his pains, how
ever, except the consciousness of duty
faithfully done, as the woman furious
at the Illustration of her plans, fought
him tooth and nail, and although he
bears the scars of many wounds received
on the field of battle. and a a record
of having participated in innumerable
general engagements and skirmishes.
never in his soldier days. did he engage
in a fight so fast and furious, and come
so near being vanquished.
The girl was arrested early this morn
ing on Galena street. She had fought
with a French woman named Lizette,
in which LizZette had hurt her feelings
more than her flesh, had called her vile
names and the sting of insults received
vas more h she could hear. A short
time after h was put behind the bars
Jailer Boyle a occasion to go into the
woman department. He caught her
W 4A0A6 0lC a
torn her skirt into ribbons and had
twisted it into a very serviceable rope,
climbed on top of a sell, tied n end
OF the rope around an iron bar near the
ceiling and was adjusting the moose at
the other end of the ROPE around her
neck, when the jailer interfered. A few
minute later woul nave been too late.
She resisted his efforts to save her and
the jailer was compelled to call in assist
ance.
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jailer for a match, with which, she said,
she wanted to light a cigarette. She
was accommodated. Almost immediate
~ afterwards the jailer's attention was
attracted by a fire in the woman's de-
partment. He rushed in to find that
the girl had set fire to her clothing. The
fire was put out by h jailer and an
other officer, both of whom received
burns on their hands for their trouble.
The. girl was badly burned. She tried
to fight them away, Dut they OverpOw-
cred her and tore the burning clothing
from her.
Its no use. TIL get there YETI was
all the comment h made.
: Then she subsidized and was quiet for
some time. Half an hour or more after
the girls cell. He found her half dead
from strangulation. She had tied a
garter tightly around her ..eck. and had
the jailer not discovered her she would
nave uleu III d very SuOTL time. Inc
garter was SO tight that it had sun
deep in the flesh, and she was black in
the face. While one man held her the
TALLER cut the garter away. Then the
girl promised to make no further attempt
to kill herself and told the jailer hel
story. -
She said hat a few years ago. she was
married and lived happily with her hus
band in Kansas City, where her husband
was a physician. One day proof was
put in her hands of her husbands infidel'
ity, and she decided to kill him.. 81
went to his Office and shot at him, and
thinking she had hit him turned the CUR
on herself and sent a bullet into her side
She wasstaken to a hospital. After sew
eral weeks she and left Kan
sas City, and has not seen her husband
since. She has since learned hat thu
bullet intended for him went wide Of tn,
mark.
l.. About noon some friends called at tn
Jail, and promising to take care of tn
girl took her away.