Year: 1866

Dead I'm the street.


From the Chicago Post, November 10.


This morning, upon the Coroner's book was
entered the simple notification that woman
had been found dead near Fox d oWards
machine shop, Bridgeport. "Some miserable
victim of intoxicating drinks" was the natural
comment on such an occurrence which at once
sugg ested itself.


But in the circumstances attending the death
OF this unhappy woman there is contained
depth OF tragedy, a brief but terrible tale OF
suffering and outrage which may be expected
TO arrest the attention of the most hard-hearted
and cellous. ...


First we see her enter a saloon at Bridgeport,
kept by one Mrs. Mahoney. At the bar, among
Others, is MIR. j. X. McNulty, who keeps
grocery store at the corner OF Reuben street and
Archer road. His attention is particularly
attracted TO her, chiefly by his noticing that she
is attred with more than ordinary neatness,
and that her appearance denotes tnat she does
not belong to the class of women VINO are to be
seen visiting saloons Mrs. Mahoney inquiries
of her what she wants. She answers IN q vague,
bewlldered manner hat she docs not know. She
is then told that she cannot De allowed to stay
There's that she must incontinently leave. She
begins to weep piteously, aud Is thereupon
questioned as TO where she has come from. In
the same hali.bewildered manner she ans wers,
''From down town" You ought to be ashamed
OF yourself 10 be going about in that condit on;
YOU, woman says the Indignant Mrs. Ma
honey, and she is again ordered to take her
sell Off.





pityingly watched her as she wandered away
INTO the storm and darkness The rain was
falling in torrents, and chilling wind was
blowing over the bleak prairie. She disap-
peared in short time, and in rev minutes her
appearance at the saloon was wholly forgotten.
AT 10 o'clock she again emerges from the OBJ
scurlty, and we again see once more her pallid
face, as she presents herself at the same saloon,
and asks in piteously pleading tones to be
allowed TO rest. Mrs. MahoIey is moved to
compassion, and questions closely, and not per-
maps without some Womanly tenderness.
she explains that she has been engaged
as cook at Mrs. Bulgel's, who keeps an
establishment near the docks at Bridge
port She mas got tipsy, she said, and had been
turned out of doors, She was wet and weary,
aud did not know where to go, and again sne
implored the owners of the saloon 10 give her
shelter for the night Mrs. Mahoney was will
ing that her request should be granted. Her
husband also thought that If he had hal any
clubhouse or barn in o which she could creep
he might extend his charity so far. As he had
no such accommodation, the thing was mposs-
ble Whatever came OF 1T. she must tramp.
Certain boys" who were IN the saloon sup.
ported the landlord, and ticking her by the
shoulders, summarlly turned her ont of doors.


We see nothing further OF ner tor time. All
the dwellers in that neighborhood were warm
in bed when some one knocked at the door of
a Mrs. Brown, on the Archer road, and told her
to get up, that there was a man dying outside
her door. She started up with aiacrity, but
not caring to open her door until she should
ascertain more Oh UDe man VINO spoke, SDe JOlu
him if there was any one there, as he stated, to
60 to the lock house opposite and inform the
watchman. The man went away, and. looking
after him, Mrs. Brown noticed that he did not
90 as directed. but walked brlskly of in an
opposite direction. 1t appeared to her, as she
looked after him. that he even started to run.
There was something suspicious about the
whole affair, and people do not ike TO open
their doors at night, even on such summons,
unless they have some assurance there is no
foul play meant
that there was some fellow-being dying at the
door, and the thought of allowing him TO do so
uncared for she could by no means brook. She
consulted with her husband, and the two decided
to go out and make q search at any race, to see
if there was any truth in the mans statement.
Looking out cautiously, they were unable to see
any one at first, but extending their inspection
some distance from the door they at last became
aware that some one, or something, was leaning
up against the wall at the end of the house.
They questioned, but got no answer. Then ap
preaching, they discovered to tner horror that
the object was woman; that she was speech
less and helpless and that she was completely
naked. Her hair was hanging in wet and tangled
masses around her shoulders, and her face and
body weIe covered with mlre. They tried to
rouse her to speak, but no word could be evoked
from her already cold and frozen lips


Then they raised her from her reclining position
and she sank down helpless at their feet. She
was conveyed into the house, where she almost
instantly expired. She had been allowed to
ullCI no NOIu WHICH thS SOnul'lOh
in which she was found. 1t she could have
given hint that might lead to the discovery of
the worse than demons into whose hands she
had fallen the power to do so was denied her.


In the morning Mr.. McNulty, who had seen
her when she first visited the saloon, was in
formed that woman had been found dead. He
hastened to the place where the body was lying,
and removing from the face the carpet with
which it was covered recognized at once in the
careworn lineaments those of the unhappy wan.
derer whom he had encountered the night before.
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