Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-07-19
oTTuMWA GIRL MAKES EFFORT
70 FOLLOW HER LOVER
FROM LIFE.
1T WAS TO HAVE BEfN
THEIR WEDDING DAY
Girl May Recover, Tho it Was Slow
Acting Toxin She Drank and Result
Is Yet in Doubt--szid Young Man
Had Talked to Her Of Suicide-Traeio
Incident in Undertaking Rooms.

Ottumwa, July 10. Miss Beulah
Ellis, OF this city, attempted to end her
life Yesterday at the Daggett undertake
ing parlors by swallCwi.g three two
grain tablets of slow acting poison.
Miss Ellis, who had been keeping
company with James Young, the young
man who died uader mysterious condi-
lions at the McElroy Hotel Monday
morning, had gone to the undertaking
parlor;, to testify at the inquest which
was being held over Youngs body. She
had been in the chapel where Young 5
family was gathered about his casket.
All morning she lowered in that vi
entity and kept mumbling that she
would soon bewith the young man. At
1915 o'clock she went into one of the
small rest rooms at the side Of the Of
flee and in few minutes called to
Mrs. E. K. Daugherty, wife of the
county attorney, who was assisting the
coroner with the inquest.
AS Mrs. Daugherty entered the room
the girl was struggling on the couch
and was crying out, L want to see jim
once more and then l will be with him.
The couple were to have been married
yesterday.
Seeing that Miss Ellis was in agony
Mrs. Daugherty called the three physi-
clans there as witnesses and specta :
tors. Antidotes We're quickly given the
girl and in little while she was some
what relieved. After a rest she was
put in the witness stand but became
too i'll to testify and had to be given
further attention. Finally just before
noon she was able to brokenly tell her
story and the inquest was adjourned
until future date:
Threatened Suicide.
Young died in commissions at the
hotel early Monday morning and in a
brief ante mortem statement he said
a man at the depot had given him bee"
to get even with him. No informatioi
as to who it was or what depot he re-
ferred to could be gained before he
died.
Sergt Alex johnson the United
States army recruiting officer. who was
with Young when he died, found
small bottle lying in the alley at the
rear of the hotel the next morning
Whether or not it could have been
thrown by the man from his window is
a matter of conjecture. Some of the
witnesses said he could have taken
poison from it and then thrown 1t out
and others say that it could not have
been thrown without being broken.
Miss Ellis said yesterday on the
stand that when Young was with her
Sunday night he had bottle with him
and had threatened suicide if "their
trouble" was not settled at once. She
said that the trouble he mentioned re-
ferred to his ins.sting that she marry
him when she knew that he was en-
gagged to marry another girl in October
of this year.
Will Probably Recover.
That Miss Ellis will probably recover
seems to be the consensus of opinion
among the physicians who attended
her. The poison acts in such a manner
that it's full results might not be felt
for a week after it Is taken, but the
immediate attention which was given
Miss Ellis leads the men to think
that she will soon be improved altho
she will probably not be entirely recov-
cred for some time.
The funeral Of Mr.. Young was yes
terday with service here before the
body was taken to the Brooks cemetery
near Hedrick, where burial was made