The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-05
.DESPONOEN7 GIRL
T00 l I. ! | DRUG D. j
Heard That Lover Had Fore
sakcn Her and Also That
Sister Had Just Died. 81
BUGGY FALLS FROM BRIDGE; &c!
Old Man, Pii1ioned Beneath We
hicle, Was Drowned lii Thrieee.
Feet Of Water. Il;
.tspecIal 10 The Times Dispatch.

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NORFOLK, VA, April 4.---l5ditf 1trt,f--i
ner, better known here as Edit Anderson,
from Savannah, Ga. and twenty-five
years Of age, died early to-day from the
4 effects OF morphine. The. young woman
lived IN tho house OF Mamie Daley In
Avon street where she took q large9dosc
ofsmorphine and went. to sleep last nigh t.
Il She had heard that her sailor lover on
4 board the United States cruiser Calves.
ton had fOrsaken her, which, with q leic-g
gram from home announcing the death
or her sister. caused great grief and a
complete collapse. The. young Woman,s
loud breathing awakened the other IN
mates OF the house. This morning q
physician revived the girl partially and
4 sent her to St.. yinccnts, but she died
At i o'clock. She had been under the
Influence Of the drug too long to be re-
stored. She never spoke after she swat
lowed the poison It is known, however
& that she was respondent and grieving
Drowned From Bridge.
The body OF Isaac N. Eason, was found ~
by George Ansel u farmer under Beren
bridge in Norfolk county this morning.
drowned In three feet of water. He
was seventy years of age and a promi-
y rent farmer He was the father of l. w.
Ijason, a lawyer here.
Mr. Eason. who was in town yester-i
day. left Berkley In his open buggyS
about shutdown for his home, not Ear
y from the North Carolina line. In Butts
road district. When he reached the
K branch in which he lost his life his
horse went over a bridge some eight feet
wide and fifteen feet long, which had
= no rail.
AS The horse vert over the buggy
n ,,,.,xs
& pinned beneath It.
Jumped Il His Death.
Robert Brown, coIored.i died inatantly
after Jumping from a trolley car yester-5
v day. He was going to his home in Nor
folk county on the Norfolk Railway ard
Light Company's car and had nearly
reached his home, eight miles out, when
he jumped from the car before It stopped,
! He was sitting In the rear seat and was
Intoxicated He jumped without warning
and broke his neck In falling. He vas
thirty years of8age. jss
Dispositions in Suit.
Attorneys d. L. Groner, II. T.. 1owen-
berg. Walter II. Taylor and "A. p. Thorn,
or Norfolk. and S. Gordon Cumming. Of
Hampton. went to Baltimore tonight 10
take dispositions in the $4,000 suit Of the
Sanford and Brooks Company agalnststhe
d Norfolk and Atlantic Terminal Company
pending in the Norfolk City Circuit
81 Court. stss ttes
Sanford and Brooks built tho Terminal
y Companys electric line TO Sewell's Point
out from Norfolk. The Tennis CONSTITUTE
ton Company sued TO recover for ma
terial supplied and work done and Sc
cured Judgment for $4,000 against the
Sanford and Brooks Company. Included
T1-N~ Iva
q the Terminal Company Is an amount.
equivalent to cover the judgment secured
4 by the Tennis Company.
James G. West. colored. was acquitted
to-day by jury OF white men In the
q Corporation Court OF the CHARGE OF ma.
4 licious shooting, He went home recent
~ and finding Henry Foreman. colored.
v OF whom he was Jealous, visiting his wire,
e shot and wounded Foreman in the thigh
Two other shots went wild and Foreman
went 10 the hospital. He recovered and
appeared at the trial. sE
Eugene Mackcy. a young colored man.
was to-day held for Indictment before.
the grand jury by United States Com
missioner Bowdcn on the charge Of.
z forgery
Body Searched.
The body Of the drowned man sup
4 posed Dy some 70 nave pecH tnat u
Captain Tom Brown. the Gloucester
county soysterman, was dislnterred yes
terday afternoon by Undertaken ,sScottl
and the clothing searched. but the only
articles revealed were knife and so
cents. 1t was said that Captain Brown
: had In his pocket at the time he was.
& drowned letter that would identify him
Al and $50 in cash. Neither cash or letter
was found on the remains. Al