The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-11-13
GIRL ENDS
Her j CAREER
BY POISON.
Unrequited Love May Have Bean the
Cause of the Suicide Of Miss
r Nettie Ramsay.
SHE TOOK ROUGH On RATS.
Was Domestic in the Employ of the
Family Of J. T. Goodwin on
Sixteenth Street.

At the City Hospital a few minutes
before s o'clock last night, occurred the
death OF Miss NettIe Ramsey. I twenty
six year old girl, the result OF dose
OF POISON administered by herself at the
home OF Mr.. ]. T. Goodwin on Sixteenth
street, about o'clock the morning OF
the same day. The cause OF the girls
rash act is not known, but it.is supposed
to have; been the result Of . love affair
In which there was 4 case Of unrequlted
affection.
Miss Ramsey was q domestic In the
employ of Mrs. Goodwin. She lad been
there only aweek and told Mrs. Goodwin
yesterday morning that II anything &C.
CURED to notify her grandfather. John
Keene. who. she said. resided at Pow
hatan. Neishbors saw her In the laun-
dry at o'clock In the morning and n,
ten minutes Of O'Clock she raped q,
the door OF Mrs. Goodwin and ,cxclaim-
ed, "oh. Mrs. Goodwin, an, sick"
When Mrs. Goodwin asked her what the
matter was she said she felt funny
and asked her to listen 10 her heart. Mr.
Goodwin was called and. feaIing her
pulse. could ind nothing wrong. She
was given water and hot coffee. Then
the girl told than che was too sick &c
take anything. AT o'clock she begar
to vomlt. The family sent for Dr. Be-
about. who was not at home, but upon
the advice OF his wife the girl was
given salt water to drink. II was moi
until then that the family had any.ink-
ling of the truth. She told them she
had taken poison. but the family
thought she was delicious and they did
not believe her.
Took Trough on Bats
When asked what she had taken 'shs
replied that she had taken spoonful
Of Rough on Rats" and threw the res,
into the IRE. She said she had gotten
it from druggist with the long whis-
kers." from which It was inferred sh1
had secured 1t from MI. Graham. who
keeps 4 drug store on Chaplinc street
When asked abou. the matter. Mr.. Ora
ham said he could not remember the
girl.
When the girl began TO grow worse
and the family realized that her stor,
was true, DR.. Billiard was summoned
and he called three or four times. She
suffered untold agony during the after
noon and everything possible was done
to ease her suffering.
At o'clock. on the advice of the at
tending physician, she was removed to
the City Hospital where, in spite OF
every effort. she expired an hour later,
1t was not thought necessary to hold
IN inquest over the poor girls remains
and this Formally was dispensed with.
The dead giri came to the home OF ],
T. Goodwin on the night OF November
6. She was employed as a domestic and
had worked three hours earlier In the
day for Mrs. Peter Cassell, on Four
teenth street. from which place she was
discharged for some reason unknown.
Before that she had been in the employ
OF Mrs. Noah Beck, on Fourteenth
street. Mrs. Goodwin says the girl was
not out Of the house except once while
she was in her employ and that was
last Thursday morning, at which time
1t is thought she secured the poison.
Sunday she asked permission tc go TO
Moundsvillc and afterwards stated she
would postpone her visit until the fol-
lowing Sunday She said she had two
cousins living down there.
Perhaps n Love Affair.
The only motive for the girls rash
deed that could be surmised was dis
appointment over love affair. She
told Mrs. Goodwin she had \ sweetheart
and Sunday night she dressed and ex-
pected him, but he did not come. Later
during the same night she asked for n
pencil and said she wanted to write n
letter. Whether she wrote the letter or
not is not known, as no trace Of tho
missiye could be found. though 1t was
possible for her TO have written and
mailed it without tho knowledge Of the
other members Of the household. Yes
terday when shewas asked II she de-
sired to see her sweetheart she replied
that she did not.
The family thought the girl not to
have been OF altogether sound mind.
Her eyes were sunken and had q vacant
look In them. She appeared to be
thoroughly honest and the members Of
the household had no hesitancy In
trusting her. She said she WINS twenty
six years OF age. but looked older. When
asked why she took the poison she re-
piled that 1t was because sha was In
popr hralth nd hna n hartl time r-pttipr