The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-22
DIED ON STREET.
Mrs. Mary Rose Found Nearly
Lifeless in Parking.
WOrkmen Discover Her Dying
at Eighth and Lane.
HAD MONEY ON PERSON
Evident That Death Was Due
to Natural Causes.
Supposed to Have Come Here
From Leavenworth.
Had MONEY ON PERSON

Mrs. Mary Rose was found in a diving
condition at the corner of Eighth ave-
nue. and Lane street, an old yalise w.
ing beside her on the grass of the
street parking where she had sat
down. DR.. A. B. Jeffries was called
and the police headquarters notified
by unknown passers, but the woman
was dead before aid arrived. Epilepsy
is the cause assigned.
That the unfortunate woman felt
the approach of an epileptic fit and
left the home of w. G. Dickey, at Ss5
Lane street, where she had been
working, in order to avoid the alarm
which such an attack would cause
members of the family, is now be-
heved- Those who first beheld her
plight were at a loss to know why a
woman, apparently prepared for trav-
elling, should be violently ill at such
place and at such an hour.
AT the Dfckey home it was stated
that 1t was supposed Mrs. Rose, who
was devout Catholic, had gone out
for early mass and would soon return.
Not until her death was reported
there was it found that she had re-
moved her small personal belongings.
There is little doubt that the wo-
man who died in the street parking
was mildly demented..
past" said DR.. Jeffries, who took the
trouble to investigate her case, "but
from an examination of the diary that
she kept it is certain that her mental
processes were erratic,. to say the
least. AS she died after an attack of
epilepsy I am inclined to suspect that
could her history be ascertained it
would be found she had at some time
been an inmate of an asylum. If such
is the case it would be easy, to account
fNv- H. H.
of her 1ife.''
From Rock Island, Illinois.
Although Mrs Rose once told her
recent employer that her mother lived
in Rock Island, ILL.,, and that her fam
lily was well to do, she had been a
in her diary. She kept it on leaves
torn from a cheap tablet and sheaf
of these records was found in her
shabby valise with her scant ward
robe. She carried also Catholic
prayer book aud purse with SIS.
| Her quaint diary, tumble of ac-
counts OF expenses, references to st.
Louis, Kansas City, Leavenworth,
points, contained curious comments
| upon her experiences but made no
reference to the purpose of her jour-
neying. Probably she had none all
though at once place is found, Mrs.
Mary Rose, California" Perhaps she
| thought of going there.
She had walked here-from Leaven-
worth six weeks ago. In her diary is
this itinerary:
"st. Louis to sedalia. From Leaven-
worth to Lawrence. To Leavenworth
Junction. From Junction to Lansing.
From Lansing to Hoge. From Hoge to
Grand stranger From Grand
Summit to Tonganoxie to Rend. From
Rend to Six Corners. Six Corners to
Lawrence"
In one place she says: 81 left st.
Louis Thursday, September 23, 1 left
st. Louis. Mo-
In another she makes the quaint
comment: October. 1, 1909, reach
| ed Usage this a. m. from Bonnotsville,
Mo-, and believe it, it was very nice
morning"
She must have stayed in Kansas
i City, whittier she went from Sedalia
ION the -2:30 train,'' for ten days and
| had a hard time there for she tells
a quarter form man on a street car
and being rebuffed by others. One
note reads.
! Henry Taylor. Kansas City. Mo-.
| 911 Hickory street. was hungry and
you gave me to eat. Thanks"
Worked in Leavenworth.
That the woman was the house,
keeper for three months for a Leav-
| enworth family was her statement at
the place where she worked in To-
|
the diary relating how she went to
work January % for a widower with
three children. She told Mrs Dickey
the mans name was Fred Lang. 1t
| was perhaps aunder the spell CT one OF
her recurrent attacks that she left
ILeavenworth afoot, wandering to Law
renee and thence to Topeka. In her
diary are mentioned Lecompton, Grow
| er and Tecumseh. She reached here
about six weeks ago.
The account of her service in the
Dickey home is a good one. She was
quiet and attentive, but peculiar She
had little to say of herself and was
not pressed for information. She did
her work well and the matter of look
ing up the reference she gave was fin
church attendance and It is evident
from her diary that religious matters
occupied much of her thought for she
kept account of attendance at services
of all sorts and of expenditures for re-
ligious purposes. The price Of her
prayer book, S1.10, was carefully noted
lon the fly leaf, with her name and ad-
dress.
Somewhere she had purchased an
assortment of playthings for children
dolls, a skipping rope and toys. Per-
haps these were for the children OF
the Leavenworth family.
No Indication of Foul Play.
The body is being held in the Shell
labarger undertaking establishment.
where an examination was made by
lCoroner H. H. Keith this morning.
There is no indication of foul
play" said he this morning. '"The
| woman was evidently seized with an
the street. Probably immediate medi-
cal aid would have been of no relief. as
she died before Police Officers Eng
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