The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-09-24
ANXIOUS TO START LIFE AGAIN
Friends of Iowa Woman Who At
tempted Suicide Come From Chicago
and Arrange to Have Her Properly
Cared For--Planned Suicide Here.


err and library worker, who recently at
tempted suicide at Salem, was removed
from the county Jail to the Pennoyer
Sanitarium late Tuesday evening and
she is now seeking to recuperate her
health and forget She was much more
cheerful after she had met with some
of her relatives on Tuesday evening
and she gave them the assurance that
she wanted to live and that she would
make no further effort to end her life.
cousin of the woman, came to Kenosha
late Tuesday evening. He had known
nothing of her plight until he saw the
story of her attempted suicide in a
Chicago paper and he took the first
train for Chicago. "Miss Crawford is
a high strung intellectual woman" he
told the county clerk, "but ] can not
account for this kind of breakdown.
Until a month ago she had been EN-
ployed in the Offices of the Information
a Harvester Company in Chicago and
she had gone out to Evanston to rest.
We had a letter from her a month ago
in which she said that she was going
for a long journey and that if she re-
turned she would pay us visit"
Taft declared that he thought her
trouble was of temporary nature and
that after short time she would be
ready to begin her life and work anew.
The stricken woman smiled when she
saw her cousin and she wanted to get
away from the county Jail at once.
County Clerk Jones declared to her
that the county officials had no objec-
tion to turning her over to her relatives.
Many interesting facts have been dis
covered in connection with the case and
the plans which she had made to take
her own life were made with great
deliberation.
Her death, the disposal of her body
and the adjustment of her affairs had
been planed in minuetest detail before
she slashed the veins in her wrist while
in lonely wood near Salem Sunday.
Letters to her attorney, j. S. Dewell,
and her sister, Mrs. j. Purcell, both
of Missouri Valley, Iowa, were written
and registered in the Kenosha postoffice
Saturday. In them she told of her plan
to end her life and asked that her in
surance be expended for the payment
of several debts, worry over which
with lack of employment, is believed to
have impelled her to attempt her life.
In the letters Miss Crawford left a
complete list of her financial obliga.
tions and instructed Mr.. Dewell just
how to collect the insurance. She told
him she would leave no clew at Salem
by which she could be identified.
However, she gave minute details al
to the dress she would wear and in re
gard to certain small articles in hel
purse by which Identification could BIZ
made sure by those who knew her, il
order that insurance might be collected
Mr.. Dewell happened to be in the
Missouri Valley postoffice Sunday morn
ing when the letters addressed to hin
reached that city. Miss Crawford ha6
believed the letters would not reach
him until Monday.
The attorney Immediately got il
touch with the authorities in Salem and
notified them of Miss Crawford IS pur
pose to take her life. They already
were searching for the woman when {
party of autoists found her beside The
road outside the village nearly uncon
scious from loss of blood.
Miss Crawford had worked for sew
eral months as a cataloguer in tn,
Glencoe Library. She also had dom
some work for the American Librar,
Association of Chicago. She made he
home with Miss Katherine MADDEN o.
1714 Chicago avenue, Evanston, earl,
in the summer.
Recently Miss Crawford lost her 20
sition. Friends obtained work for he
in the offices of the Portland Cemen
Company, but she declined to accept il
She was employed at one time as al
expert cataloguer in the department o
agriculture in Washington. Men EN-
ployes of the office in which she work
ed made her position so unpleasant tina
she felt compelled to resign, her friend
assert. 1t was because she feared sim
liar unpleasantness in the office of th
cement company that she declined tn
position, her friends said.