Year: 1879

seen it was in the neighborhood of
Fourth and Vine streets by q couple
of gentleman boarders at the house.
Knowing her condition they took her
back to her room. This was at ten
o'clock. At about eleven o'clock Mr.
Henry Ferriman, who had been deeply
touched by her devotion to his dead
brother. called at the house to find out
whether there was anything he could
do for her; she asked if she could not
see the body of Fred. Mr.. Eerriman
replied, not just then. for it was being
prepared for shipment, but that if she
wished he would call for her at three
O'Clock. She urged him to come, and
spoke somewhat vaguely of going with
Fred. and of being there when he
should be buried. The strangeness of
her expressions we're not noted until
afterward, when by her own act she
proved that she was already resolved to
die, and that her morning walk had
had fatal purpose. Up to this time
she had not wept her grief had found
vent in tempestuous rawlings which
were unsolaced by tears. Now, Mr..
Ferriman being gone, Mrs. Rogers
took her upon her lap and talked to her
with the purpose of causing her to
weep. She succeeded, and it was
hoped that the worst danger was passed,
when she sank sobbing into the kind
landlady's arms. She now begged Mrs.
Rogers to leave her alone for few mo-
ments "to think" With a singular
cunning, however, she had already
learned the exact location of her heart
by questions to Mrs. Rogers so adroitly
put that no suspicion was excited. At


ter she had located lit, Mrs. Rogers
asked if her heart panied her, and she re-
piled yes. Mrs. Rogers left the room to
arouse her daughter, who was sleeping af-
ter the watching of the night, and within
few minutes heard suspicious click.
She hurried to Miss Georges room, and
just as she put her hand on the door
knob heard the report of pistol. The
deed was done when she entered Miss
George lay across her bed, clad in an
elegant dress, which was torn open in
front. A twenty-five caliber pistol had
fallen from her hand, and blood from q
wound in her left breast dyed her cloth
ing. She seemed to have put on her
best apparel for the event. The dress
was heavy silk, elegant diamond rings
graced her shapely fingers, and around
her neck was heavy gold chain with q
locket attached, and in this portrait
of her dead lover. In her left hand
she clutched towel, some money, and
purse. She spoke kindly to Mrs.
Rogers, and said it was useless to at
tempt to help her as she was resolved to
die and 60 to Fred. This and other re-
marks of the same purport was the sub


stance of her talk whenever conscious,
though once she answered question
about the pistol by saying she had
bought it for a dollar on Fifth street.
Doctors were at once summoned. DR..
Minor, DR.. Young, DR.. Norton, and
DIR. Carr. When Health Officer Minor,
who was first on the ground, arrived,
she had already lost all consciousness,
bore every mark of speedy dissolution.
He attempted the usual means of pro-


ducing reaction, but failed, and gave
her up as lost. He left on the, arrival
of Drs. Norton and Carr in order to
take the two o'clock train. Shortly af-
ter the reaction set in, and she was soon
dUlc dSala " tdAh. OuCA al CAhM-
ination as could be made, indicated
that the bullet, which entered the breast
at point two inches from the left nip
pie toward the right, had passed in an
oblique direction, and missing the
heart, which it would surely have
pierced if the pistol had been held
straight against tho breast, had
passed through a portion of the left
lung. That the lung had been pierced,
was evidenced by its action and the
blood which the injured woman spit
and vomited up. During all of the af-
ternoon and at night, up till late hour
in the morning, she remained in this
condition, entirely conscious when not
opiates, which she asked the physicians
to administer whenever she awoke.
She manifested little concern in her
condition, saying only that she hoped
to die. As to the result of her injuries
the physicians do not speak with much
certainty. They have not yet made as
thorough an examination as is possible,
because of the suffering it would cause
her without ccmpensating good, and
do not know to what an extent internal
hemorrhage has taken place. It is
feared, however, that death will result,
if not soon, from the wound directly,
yet it will come from secondary causes
soon after Inflammation sets in. The
brothers of the dead lover started for
Albion, Sunday night at Z o'clock, with
the remains. Cincinnati Gazette.


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