Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-15
SEATED ON CURB
ATTEMPTS DEATH
BY CHLOROFO ORM
INHALES AND DRINKS FROM
HALF-0UNCE VIAL
GIRL PICKED UP UNCONSCIOUS
ON TEMPLE STREET
travels to Ocean Park, Intending to
Drown Herself, but shrInks from
Ordeal When She Sees
the Crowd
RI oRrENsE PAsoUALINA, beau
III tiful 16-year-old girl, attempted

!" ORTENSE PASQUALlNA, peau-
tiful 16-year-old girl, attempted
II 10 commit suicide last night by
inhaling and drinking the contents OF d
bale-ounce vial of chloroform just
across the street from the drug store ol
II. Kalliwoda. 1869 Temple street. She
fell unconscious and was picked up by
Fred Mcpherson, an empioye OF tne
itdison Electric company, who was
oasslng and taken into the drug store.
r-here efforts were made to revive her,
pendins the arrival of the police am
bulance, which had been called.
Clothed in black, with her clear olive
eomnlexion changed to chalk white
ness and her raven hair flying loose,
the girl was hurried to the receiving
hospital, where Police Surgeon Wiley
administered antlCotes and stimulants
and soon had her out Of danger.
.yhen she recovered consciousness she
vas AIKEN to the matrons department,
where, as soon as she realized that her
efforts at self-destruction had failed,
she exhibited extreme anger and up
braided the surgeons for not allowing
her to die. She declared she was in
Heaven and was calm and eontented
until she regained her senses only to
find that she was back again in the
cold world of reality.
At first she refused to give her name
or discuss the motive that prompted her
to take the rash step. She would not
say whether she was disappointed in
love, or whether she was tired of liv-
ing and wished to end 1t all, maintain
ing stolid silence. Finally, when she
began to recover from the effects of
the drug, her mind became clearer and
she game her name. After several at
tempts to get her to give her reason for
wanting to die she finally told her
story.
Works in JeweIry Store
The young girl Is employed at the
tewelry establishment OF Brock & Fea-
grns, and Is In the stationery depart-
ment. According to her story she re-
ported for duty as usual yesterday
r-orning. She had been brooding over
imagined wrongs and decided to die,
because her mother would not allow
her to go to theaters at nights or keep
late hours.
She worried over this and soon per-
suaded herself that her mother was too
strict and that life was not worth liv-
ing unless she could do exactly as she
pleased. After she had been at work
an hour she finally resolved to end her
life.
without giving any intimation as to
r intended course she secured her hat
loft fba cfn
over to the station and boarded a car
for Ocean Park, intending to walk TO
the end of the pier ami jump into the
ocean, Upon her arrival at the beach
town she was deferred by the number
of people on the pier. She feared she
would be rescued as soon as She struck
the water and, instead of ending her
life. would be made ridiculous. So she
gave up the idea of self-destruction
that way and decided upon death by
chloroform.
Purchases Deadly Drug
After walking about the beach for
short time endeavoring to summon
courage enough to call for the desired
drug, she entered drug store and
bought a half-ounce vial of chloro-
form, signing her own name to the
book in which a record is kept of all
sales of poisons.
f1dVlnS StCuTeQ lHe uIuS Sift COuAu
not summon the necessary courage to
take the poison so she put the vial in
her pocRetbook and strolled ABOUT the
beach, remaining there until late yes
terday evening.
She was ON her way to her home at
3431 Temple street, and was trying to
bring herself to take the drug. She
had not decided on the most effective
way, and was mentally debating
whether or not to give up the attempt
When she reached point opposite
the drug store of II. Kalliwoda, at Tenn
pie and Beaudry, she sat down on the
curb, poured a quantity of the choloro-
form on her handkerchief and began to
inhale the fumes. Then. when she
was about to fall over in an uncon-
scfous condition, she placed the bottle
to her lips and drank the rest OF the
liquid. She was seen by a passer-by
and the police We're notified.
The girl has completely recovered
from the effects of the drug and is en-
tirely out of danger, although at first
it appeared as IL her case was hopeless.
The persistent efforts of Surgeon Wiley
saved her life.
Miss Pasqualina is well thought OF
by her employers She is at present
in the matrons department of the re-
ceiving hospital. where she probably
will remain until this morning.