The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-11-28
LEAPS TO her
DEATH FROM
BIC BUILDING
Miss Maude Van Duesen, Nebraska
School Teacher, Ends Life
In Chicago

from the twentieth story of the Nc
Cormick building and was crushed
to death on the stone paving of an
alley at the street level. She jump
ed from an alley fire escape nearly
ESQ feet above the ground in view
OF many pedestrians. Her body
struck another fire escape at the first
floor and bounded into the alley way
nearly every bone being broken.
Miss Van Deusen according to pa
pers found In her pocketbook which
she carried with her was school
teacher in Humboldt, Neb. From her
papers it appeared that she had
been seeking position here and had
been obessed with the idea that she
had been in danger from white slav-
ers. She wrote that she had been
driven to appeal for protection to
Chief of Police McWeeney, to the
federal department of justice and to
social settlement workers.
death Before Dishonor"
Dne udu pfepdTeu lOT Her uedln
by pinning across her bosom a strip
OF white linen which had been stain
ed crimson at either end and on
which she hau printed in large let
ters:
Death! Death before dishonor"
She had tied around her neck
copy of the new testament in which
she had marked passages in st.
John. She held her hand bag in her
hand as she jumped and 1t was pick
ed up near her body. In it was an
other marked bible and a typewrit-
ten statement of several thousand
words which she had entitled Part
of My Lies History"
Il will die clean If have to kill
myself" Was written at the head of
one of the sheets.
The landlaay of the house in
which Miss Van Deusen had been
rooming said the young woman had
been without employment for some
time.
Leaves Statement
Il am trying to write this without
She least emotion" her typewriter
statement began, land though the
following statements may seem dra-
matte, your reason will assure you
that they contain only common sense
First, l have very little money
and am not allowed to hold a posi-
ton.
Second, / will accept no money
but that / earn.
ITO be without money is to be
exposed to any amount Of insult and
to fall into the hands of the spirit
ualist white slave trade,
IF / do not get help it will be a
certainty that I cannot escape fall
ing into the hands of the spiritualist
white slave trade, and that will force
me to self destruction.
The police do not understand what
Miss Van Deusen meant by spirit.
uanst white slave trade"
Letter to Jane Adams
A copy of letter in her hand
bag addressed to Miss Jane Adams
read:
Il wonder II this note will ever
reach you at all. Good people nova
days are protected by secretaries SC
that it Is hard to get to them. II
you have as | understand, clothed
a number of harlots with respecta
bility and refuse to help girl who
has to be right / shall not even thank
you for helping me. But l shall love
you il you are good really or intend
to be as you determine"
A letter apparently written by
Miss Adams in reply stated that
she was too busy to see Miss Val
Deusen at that time, but would max,
a later appointment with her.
Miss Van Deusen it is said wa!
the daughter of DR.. Lydia Van Deu
sen of Falls City, Neb.
She is said to have told friends
that she worried great deal owe
a Hindu cult.
The young woman is said to hav,
been harrassed by an hallucinatiol
that she was pursued by the repre-
sentatives of this cult.
Had Mental Allment
Falls City, Neb,. Nov 25.-Mis
5Iaude Van Deusen was we'll know
in Falls City where she grew to VIC
manhood. She taught school in Fall
City and in Richardson county dis
tricts for a number Of years.
About six years ago Miss Van Der
sen suffered from some peculiar mel
tai ailment and became estrange
from her family. She imagined the
n l. Il.