The daily sentinel., 1907-06-15
Morphine and Carbolic

DR.. ]. p. Halstead was summoned
at once and was soon at the room
/ ing house. He quickly ascertained
the girl had taken curbolc acid and
he also believes that she had swallow
| ed a potion of morphine. He found
/ that her throat and mouth We're burn
/ ed In q terrible manner and the awful
| fluid was eating away her stomach
and intestines.
Horrible Suffering
Blood flowed profusely from her
I bowels and she vomited time and
again. DR.. Halstead did everything I'M
/ his power TO relieve the dying girls
suderinEs. He was assisted by DR..
| c. NJ. Kett, who came later in the
morning. She had one convulsion
after another. she would give abso-
lutely no assistance to the efforts be-
/ ing made to save her. declaring that
she wanted to die. She was fully
conscious until just a few minutes
before the end.
She Answered Another Call
Just ut five o'clock an alarm clock
which the girl had in her room and
which she had evidently set when she
went to her room expecting to get up
early for her work at the restaurant,
, sent IT'S shrill cry upon the air. Less
{ than five minutes later the girl an
/ swered not this earthly call to human
Iabors. hut answered the summons Of
1.-THE Death Angel whom she had sum
[ imoned i'm such q frightful manner
/ and her soul took its flight from earth
! to appear for judgment in the presen-
ce of the Maker and the Giver of the
| life which she had so rashly ended.
! Dr. Halstead states that he has
Incvcr seen such acute suffering The
agonies of the dying girl cannot be
described. She declared to the doc
/ tor she had not taken carbolic acid
I but it was easy for the physician to
! tell that she had.
Cannot BE Found.
one remarkable feature of the sui
eide is the fact that the vial that
! must have contained the death giving
1 duid could not be found. The girl S
room. the hallway, the back porch,
the toilet, the back yards and nearly
/ every conceivable place about that
| portion of the house in which is To-
! Gated the girls room was searched
but the vial never found. 1t is
vial was never discovered. 1t is
! mystery what disposition she made OF
lit. Mrs. Peck who came to know the
I girl quite well states that there was
m blue bottle In the girls room for
4 several days before she Killed her
I self and this morning the bottle was
missing. This would indicate that
1.-The girl had been contemplating sui
eide for some time.
She had evidently mixed the
IcarboIic acid with morphine thinking
THAT the latter would. ease her suffer-
Il lnrs but naturally It failed to do So
, Had Not Retired.
If ia not believed that the young
voman had retired at all during the
night. She had removed her shirt
! waist and outer skirt. Sc dld not
lhave on her night gown. She evident
j lIv sat I'm her room through the long
hours brOodins over her troubles IN
3 5ItH finally, becoming desperate She
] took the poison. ..,....,
] from time to time in several OF the
? local hotels and eating houses as a
. ,yaitress She worked at the the La
. Cont Cats Restaurant the u. q
I p Il eating house and at Cady s.
{ She wore nice clothes and always
O. made a handsome appearance. 9he
e gcened TO be q girl of good charac-
q Letters From Home
o Among her effects We're IouAG q. d
e number OF letters and telegrams. On One
Ifalerram was from her mother, MT5. >.
r. NJ Brown. of Foutaneue' Io"a, ~
/ WAS ~ sent to the girl while the lat lat
,er was in Delta. IT instructed her
10 60 at once to Fruita. where a pTE- TSI
tbsr. clayton Brown, was very III.
she came here and found her prom. lII tt-
| lTr 81 Narv's hospital He was llI ioI
III, v,esI.s The girl watched over MN
1anderiy and after he had recovered
| me- ne 'f- from her mother indicate that the
| ggsmiiy is well to do. At one time
| draft for 500 was encloseu, a. -, ,,ji
ati1sr lime $50 was sent and asal.
| On On rbis was during the period thai
~ ~ b-5tber was H. The letters , lead
| her .ta o.otsIi 5eIief mat the young woman
| God 10 ~" domestic troubles in her Iowa wa
bome nom and came west. She was con
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