The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-15
no HOME FOR Her
Chorus Girl Who Wanted TO Die
lis Inc0nsOlabIe.
Refuses to Return to Michigan
With Sister.
LEAVES THE HOSPITAL
Nurses Find Her Room Empty
This Morning.
Tells Her Story and Abont Nan
fin the Case.
LEAVES THE HOSPITAL

lima Moon the chorus girl who at
tempted suicide Tuesday afternoon by
taking laudanum and creosote left the
hospital today on her own motion. She
was taken TO the Keith & Rhodes hos
pttal as soon after her attempt Gu her
life as an ambulance could be secured
and has been there ever since until this
morning. When a nurse went to her
room she was informed that She had
left some time before and that without
the permission Of the authorities.
An hour later she was located on the
street making her way towards tie
Eells hotel which was the scene Of her
attempted suicide. Shortly aftersvard
she was Joined by her sister. Miss Ethel
Moon, who arrived this morning from
Dowagiao. Mich, 10 take her sister
home.
The story OF lima Moon is much the
same as that Of other girls c. her
class. She IS barely Is years Of ags,
large for her age and possessing more
tnan ordinary beauty although tha
marks Of the life which she has led
and its designations have left their
marks. She was born and reated in a
country town but the stories Of the
glamour Of the great world beyond rnre
more than she could resist and less than
year ago she left her home which
Af-aaaN1a1a more OF the comforts 1lSn
lne ofalnary home la a small ,itv The
protests Of her sister and parents were
OF no avail. Since then she has travel
ed with several theatrical aggreratfops
as cnoTus girl, her beauty Of face and
symmetry Of figure never failing tn Sc
cure her the coveted place beEcre the
1oOuiEhts, and even while her life was
hanging in the balance a letter from
theatrical manager I'm Kansas CITY was
awaiting a reply in which she was Of
LeE9u nUgfrI0n = rF
week
Ina Moon came to the city two weeks
ago with the chorus of the Buster
Brown company and it was while here
that she reached her 18th birthday and
the celebratiOn which followed was the
cause of her losing her position with
that company. 1t was then that she
sought employment at the Star theatsr
where she has been since that time
The rest Of the story is best told in
her own language:
"I had known Billie Palmer who is
a travelling man from Chicago. before I
left the Buster Brown company and he
persuaded me to take the place at the
Star theater and while we were not
sweethearts j. thought q great deal Of
him and so did he Of me. and we were
together a great deal of the time
He went to Kansas City last week
and before he left he told me that
must not - about the Owl Restaurant
and he threatened that IL he ever found
me In there that he would kill me and
so 7 did not go about the place until
one night, I think it was Saturday night.
after the show was over several Of the
girls from the chorus went In there to
get glass of beer and I listened to
their pleadings and accompanied them
and guess that I drank more than
should have The very next day some
of the party and am sure that it was
Eddie Rocker. who is the stage man
ager at the Star, wrote to Billie and
told him that I was in the Owl Restaur-
ant and he wrote me one of the mean
est letters that a man could pen to a
woman. and I was beside myself with
anger when I received 1t. and I don't
know what did after that for it seems
TO me that the time since then has been
a long night flied with bad dreams. I
can remember Of getting the poison and
swallowing 1t. and how 1t burned and
panied me and then seemed to get cas-
Ter and I must have been out OF pain
and sleeping when the policeman knock
ed at my door, for do not remember
Of getting UP and unlocking 1t for him.
What a pity it is that the police
man did not attend to his own bust
ness and let me alone and I would be
out of it all by this time, and IL am
compelled to go back home and stay
there ] viii have it all to do over
again But I am so sick and my stOm-
ach pains me so, my mouth is burned
and my throat is so sore that I only
wish that I had died"
Her sister pleaded with her to desist
from such talk and to remember that
the disgrace of the thing was killing
her mother and father. For the first
time during the interview tears
dimmed the eyes Of the girl who a few
hours before was raving in her anger
and attempting to take her own life.
AT the mention Of her mothers name
faarr rolled down her ahaairc ana cha
said, addressing her sister Sweet
heart I have been very bad and I
know it and 7 can never go back to
my home where I have brought dis
grace upon my family and I want you
10 so nome and tell the folks that I
VIII get along all right and that moth
ing or this kind viii happen again.
The sister. Miss Ethel Moon, said.
81 am going to take my sister home
with me and there she can have as
nice a home I'm which to live as any
girl need ask. She is young. far too
young to be travelling on the road as
an actress but she has chosen the life
and 1T Is not for me to say what she
8hall do She worked for a while ia
Chicago for Marshall Field and could
secure position there any time that
she would apply for one. 7 am going
10 take her back with me and take
care of her until she is herself again
for she has always been ms baby sis
ter and though 7 am but three years
older than she is she seems more like
my little girl than my sister She Is
Oh so sorry for the disgrace which she
has brought on us and know that
she VIII never do ANYTHING of this Find
again. We viii leave tonight for Chi
cago and then ] viii take her to our
home in Michigan where our parents
New York Stocks.