The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-06-14
WOMAN IN CELL:
HUSBAND DIES
Mrs. A. A. Stops Faints on Street
and Is Arrested for Drunkenness.
NIGHT OF DREAD IN JAIL
WOMAN RELEASED AFTER IDEN-
THY is ESTABLISHED.

While her husband lay at the point of
| death in the l. d. s hospital and her
sick child was being cared for by
friends Mrs. A. A. Stops spent Monday
night in the city Jail upon the charge
of drunkenness. This. despite the fact
that Mrs Stops was not intoxicated,
and is not addicted to the use of liquor
According to the information gathered
last night, Mrs. Stops condition was
/ consequent on hysteria following a
fatal accident TO her husband. Alfred
! A Stops The latter jumped off a
Lagoon train Sunday evening at Fourth
| North street, when he discovered that
| the train would not stop at that cross
| ing He was evidently bewildered when
he saw that the train would not stop
at the crossing, and passengers say
/ that he made a rush for the door. 1t
| Is further SUTmiSed, by those who wit
messed the accident, that he hesitated
! for a moment. and then, believing the
/ train was moving at a low rate of
| speed, decided to hazard the jump. In
| stead. however of jUming on the clear
side. he went the contrary way. and
/ his head came in contact with a pole
| between the tracks.
Never Recovered Consciousness.
| Persons on the train who witnessed
| the accident promptly notified the
! tralnmen, and the train was backed
! down TO where Stops was lying be
| tween the tracks. He was lifted on
/ board and the train was further backed
/ to the depot. where DIT. :. c. Baldwin
was summoned. He attended the in
| jUred man and directed his removal
to his tStoops) home at 500 West
! Fourth North street
| Monday the condition of the man be-
| came SO critical that George f. Mer-
rill, Of the Morrison &, Merrill Lum-
| Der company requested that he be re-
| moved to a hospital This was done,
| and DIR. Baldwin attended him at the
| l. D $ institution Everything that
! science and the human mind could de-
| wise or suggest was done for him. but
| he remained unconscious until he
passed away at s O'Clock last even
! ing
Mrs. Stops. according to her own
| story. spent Monday afternoon with
| her husband. In the evening she re-
! turned to her home and was nursing
| her sick baby when she began to feel
! weak Believing that she was about to
| be attacked by fainting spells, to which
| she IS subject she left her home and
/ started to go for some ice to put on
| her head.
Faints on Street.
She had gone but a little way from
| her own door when she fell in the road.
| A pasSerby saw her lying there and
| called the police. officer G. A Carlson
picked the woman up and took her to
the station. There she was placed in
| the wOman's ward.
The officers thought that she was in
| toxicated. The woman herself. how
| ever, yesterday morning was emphatic
/ in her declarations that she was not a
| drinking woman and was not drunk
when arrested. Many of her friends
called at the station yesterday and
| supported her statements and il was
upon the representations of the latter
/ that the case against her was con-
| tinued indefinitely and she was re-
! leased.
With tears in her eyes the woman
told this tale of her night within the
walls of the Jail.
Night of Horror in Cell.
= must have been unconscious for a
long time, for when I awOke I saw
/ colOred woman bending over me. 1t
took me some time TO realize what had
/ happened and where l was. Then the
horror of the situation came over me.
, There was a white woman i'm the cell
with me besides the darkey. The lat
ter. / understood is an opium fiend. and
she must be crazy also, for l thought
! from the way she raved and tore
around the cell that she was going to
murder me I presume that my nerves
were unstrung- When l could not stand
1t any longer I shook the grating and
the jailor came and took me out into
another cell That was almost as bad
as in with the crazy coIOred woman
The stencil from the kitchen arose. and
mingled with the damp. unhealthy air
Of the cell It seemed as though L
would faint again.
Finally I managed to get TO my
feet and crawl to the bars at the win
dow From there I could look out over
the city The night wind was COO! and
1t helped to revive me I can hardly
blame the officers for thinking that
was drunk, although l dreaded the
thought of spending another such
night"
As soon as she was released, Mrs.
Stops went to the hospital and re-
manned at her husbands side for the
greater part of the day, but she be-
came so hysteTical during the after
noon, when it became evident to her
that there was no hope of her hus-
bands recovery, her relatives and
friends prevailed upon her to return
home. As a consequence there was
no one at the bedside when he died
except the nurse. but soon after Mr.
Merrill was present. prepared to look
after the disposal of the body. but il
is believed the funeral will be i'm charge
of the local order of the WOOdmen of
the World.
Mr. Stops had been a trusted en-
Dloye of Morrison. Merrill & Co. for
the past two years. and during that F.!
time had charge of the yards. He was
always faithful and devoted to the in /
terests Of his employers. He is sur /
viYed by his widow. one boy. the lat /
ter IA years Of age, and the infant /
above mentioned.
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