The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1917, 1914-05-01
SUICIDE HAD NUMBER
OF ANDERSON FRIENDS
GIRL KILLED HERSELF IN
ATLANTA, GA.
RELATIVES HERE
'ather and Mother Of Miss Helene
Ebehardt Once Made Their
Home In Anderson
tTuesday's Daily

Cruesd8y's Daily
Many Anderson people were horri-
fed Sunday when the news was receiv-
Anderson people knew Miss Eberhardt
had taken her own life in Atlanta.
Anderson people knew Miss Ebhardt
and they knew her parents and such
report was hardly credited. How
ever, press dispatches later supplied
all the details of how the act was
committed.
Miss EbCrhardts mother was Miss
Cater, an Anderson county woman and
her father was also an Anderson man.
He was born In the building which Is
now known as the Imperial hotel,
just next door to The Intelligencer
office. Many OF the Cater family In
Anderson county now were related to
the Eberhardt family, among these be-
ing: Miss Helene Cater, Mrs. j. NJ.
Mrs. w. Frank Ashmore and
Leland Cater.
The following article from the AT
lanta Journal OF Saturday tells of how
the young lady, melancholy over ILL
health inally accomplished the deed:
Miss Helene Eperhardt, II years old
drank solution of carboiic acid Fri
day evening about 10 o'clock at the
Winnie Davis ice cream parlor, 217
Peachtree street. where she had been
employed as cashier for about two
weeks, and died In an ambulance be-
tween there and Grady hopital
1T Wa9 net known until size was on
Ter way to tine hospital that Miss Eber-
hard had taken poison t5hc was
thought &c IL suffering from nervn"a
collapse. After the ambulance left. &.
p. fOhertson. manager of the shop,
discovered an empty acid bottls be-
hind the cashiers counter, and de-
tecte1 the odor Of acid in the glass
from which she had taken her last
drink, Then he telephoned the hos
tpttai, but learned shc had arrived there
dead.
deliberate intent 10 kill herself is
said To have been manifested by her
during several hours before ah com-
mitted the deed.
"!delancho!ia brought on by contln-
ued poor hoalth is believed to have
been the cause Of tie suicide. Mrs. j.
B, Eberhardt, her mother, said ply
sieiana ordered her daughter to the
country; and they spent some time In
dartwell. Ga, coming back to Atlanta
Aboutga ritofltheago.
The immediate cause may hSSe
been worry over her brothers. pres
ence in the expedition against Vera
Cruz, Mexico. George Eberhardt, the
brother iSs o petty officer bf the United
States flavy,assigned to the tbattleahip
South Carolina, and has been taking
part in the seizure, OF Vera Cruz. Miss
Eberhardt had been reading newspap-
er extras little too intently, says her
mother.
Miss Eberhsrdt was the daughter of
the late DR.. ]. D. Eherhardt, ut one
time prominent physician in Atlanta.
For some time past she and her moth
ar had been boarding at 81 East Cain
street. Mrs. Eberhardt was informed
OF her daughters deed ana hurried To
the hospital &c aaa her dad
I'm addition to the mother and the
h=e.te:' :c s!::e-s 8. .s:'::se t1..c t1.c .ss,es
ed young woman. They are Mrs. ].
ri. Beresford and Miss Willie HDer-
hardt, of Brooklyn.
Coroner Donehoo held an inquest ut
Patterson'a chapel Saturday morning
at 10 O'Clock The funeral will be held
Sunday afternoon In Hartwell.
tSccarding TON. C. Mcdowell. soda
dispenssr on might duty 1.-THE Winnie
Davis fountain, Miss EherhaFdt took
the poison in a,tsoft drink which he
mixed for her. The flrst he knew. OF 1t
WAS when she came ont from behind
her acauntar end sat 81 3 table, com
planning that 1she wRs .Sli. Amoment
or two later she wFithed with pain
and asked that he call help. A. phyBi-
clan and the Grady hospital ambulance
were .iunimoned. Mcdowell said that
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