The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 31, 1897, Page 16

16 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1897. LOVE'S ARROW Auna Blythe Holywell, a Young Berkeley Student, Took Morphine and Died Alone in Her Room, Leaving the Cause of Her Suicide NNA BLYTHE HOLYWELL, a A freshman student at the State Uni- versity, lies dead in the Berkeley Morgue from the effects of poison acmin- istered by her own hand. Behind the fact of the young girl's|atiempt at suicide Miss Holywell made | tered the restaurant and asked for the use shocking act of self-destruction there isa bafing mystery. A letter bearing date of October 23, in an envelope postmarked Ban Francisco, telling of the death of *Arthur,” supposedly the dead giri’s 7 | ber to her rash act? BROVGAT DEATH O Shrouded in Mystery. ing soid on that date to an o'd lady with spectac.es one grain of morphine in doses of one-six h of a grain each. These were found in the envelope in Miss Holywell’s room. Uron being resuscitated after her first | | po explanation of her action, merely re- marking to those who had revived her that it was very rude of them to come | into her room. | On Friday afternoon, about hali past3 | | o'clock, Miss Holywell purchased at Rut- | | ledge’s drugstore six grains of sulphate of | | | morpnine, stating that sne wasin pamn | and that sbe was in the habit of using the drug. She gave her name as Miss La- | | blache and her residence as 2240 Durant | | avenue. Inve-tigation revealed there 1s no such number, highest number in the Durant avenue. It was with the poison thus obtained at | Rutledge’s that the unfortunate student | ended ber existence. Such in brief are the facts of the un- bappy young woman’s self-destruction. | | What was the real motive which impelled | the fact that| 2% being the | | U0 block on | | in Redlands for six or seven years before | mates, having boarded at Miss Berc's | THE REBOUND suffering from brain trouble in conse- quence « f overstudy. Mre. Wollitz, whose husband keeps a | restaurant at 2147 Center street, states | that a heavily veiled young woman an- swering the dead girl’s description en- of a privateroom. Being granted her re- | quest, she went into tbe room and re- mained there writing for over an hour. The most intimate acquaintance that the dead girl had in Beikeley, however, was probably Miss Louise M. Garland, a sophomore in the university. Miss Garfand had known the dead girl coming to college. She was one of Miss Holywell's very few confidential class- house during Miss Holywell’s stay there. | She was greatly shocked when she beard ot her friend’s deatb, and after visiting the Morgue and reading the mysterious letter she still persisted in refusiag to b li-ve that the desd gir! had taken her own life. “The girl' she said, **was v-ry studious and ambitious. In spite of poor uealth she overworked herself and becawme de- spondent. She nhad few intimate frienus and no gentleman acquaintances that I TO-DAY'S GREAT BALL GAME. At Recreation Park, Eighth and Harrison streets, Reliance and Olympics will vlay what promises to be a great game of basebail. Van Haltren ana Stanley will be the battery for Reliance and Wheeler and Ford for the Olympics. In the last game played between these clubs the score was 2 to 0 in favor of Reli- ance. Manager McGlynn and his men are hopeful of turning the tables on their late victors. The game will be played with a live ball on live grounds and be- tween live players. It will be the contest of the day on the diamond. There will be lots of ginger and snap in the game. The Fresno Republican Baseball Club is greatly dissatisfied with its treat- ment in the Central Park League, and the baseba!l public need not be surprised if they see the Fresnos playing at Eighth and Harrison streets to-day. It vplans now under contemplation are perfected there wili be two games at the park and all for one price of admission. The Fresno team may meet the winners of the Reliance-Olympic game. Fresno has a strong team, and with a live ball will put up a great game. Recreation Park will be the baseball attraction. BLODDSHED NARROWLY AVERTED Fresno's Baseball Team Objected Vigorously to Being Robbed. robbed out of the game.” ‘‘Robbers!” “A dirty steall” “A crying shame!” These were a few of the exclamations. Manager Shea of Fresno demanded a new umpvire, declaring that he coulda’t and wouldn’t stand such raw work. Mec- Neil and A. M. Lawrence said that there was no way provided in the rules for changing an umpire. They advised Shea to file & protest with the committee. “We filed,” hotly retortea BShea, ‘‘a protest in the Will & Finck game. We | have never heard from it. The matter was not even mentioned in the tourna- ment’s organ.” The storm increased in violence. Even the usual placid Blockers Hanley got ex- cited and pounded the earth with a bat. | In ali storms there must come a calm. It | came in the Walcott- Lavigne fizht when Walcott got cramps. It cume in yester- day’s disgracelul wrangle when O'Neiil, | nooted and jeered, left the zrounds at the | commencement of the last half of the | fifth innings. Martes then umpired ur- assisied. : There were a lot of angry ball-playersin town last night. Chance and Thompson, the great battery for Fresno, as weli as every other member cf the team, were wild witn rage. The following is the score of a game | which rightfuily belongs to Fresno: UMPIRE O'NEILL'S RANK DECISIONS. NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. LACE CURTAINS! New Goods! New Styles! AT VERY LOW PRICES! PSSP SSEUUCE U UUUY 4 4‘ We have just opened a very large ship= ment of LACE CURTAINS in thes very latest makes, and during the coming week will show an elegant collection of CLUNY, IRISH POINT, SAXONY, POINT D’ESPRIT, SWISS APPLIQUE and FISHNET CURTAINS We Also O‘l'fer This Week: lover, indicates a p the letter its furnishes a scarcely less my: The unfortunate gi mystery has been rooming for a month past at the residence of F. W. Durgi Abo 2165 Center street, Berkeley. 9:30 o'ciock Friaay night, as Miss og the door s room e heard the girl breathing heavily within. Entering iound the unfor- >4 unconscious the rcom Miss Durgi and fully Eastland ana Hoagland e hastily summoned. Tney found the girl suffering from mor- i undo the effect of taken. dat 1:30 o’clock yes- » died without having ness. The body was he Berkeiey branch Holywell of Redlands, the fatber of t ri, was notified by tele- graph of her death. Threesmall packazes were found among the other eff: n lavdanum almost fuli, a smail box con- taining sulpbate of morphine, and an en- velope containing morphine powders. A telegram and letter were also found. The dispatch is as follows 1 for three hours they the fatal terday morni recovered c then removed ) morgue and W. C FRANCISCO. Oct. 25—7:30 P. M U, 2165 Center Streei, Berke- ley:: Do not come on now. Died yesterday. R.J. BLYTHE. The letter was inclosed in an envelope heaviiy bord d with black ana ad- dressed to, * Anna Blythe Holywell, care of Bishop Blythe, Berkeley.” The envelope was postmarked San Francisco, October 25, 6 A. M. The contents of the mysteriou-~ note are as follows: RECTORY OF S1. BENNE, October 23, My dearest Anna: Cen you be brave, dear, e 8 : Fac-Simile of Miss and bear one more sorrow? He passed awsy early this morning at 3 oclock. He seemed to go without pain, and bis last words were of you. He kept mur- muring your name and his moth er’s. My poor child, my heart aches for you, 1 know how dreadful the-loss will be. You love so few, and those few you worship, but darling, there is eome wise plan 1 it all. And don’t, oh, I pray you, don’t shut yourself Arthur is'dead. away from friendsiip and sympatiy from people. You have suffered, but tne end of life is not happiness. Dow’t let this sorrow make YOU any more morose or morbid than you are. | He would not have it so. Can’t you love others for sake? See how beauiiful and g lAn His college friends are deeply affected and his tutors say he d have made a rare man, Prof ¢ like a child and would just be- very legivle. His iore he died hand was so weak, but he wanted to ask you 1 fear it is not himsell if you wouid nof, now that he is desd, waiT this Ting you refused to wear while he was alive, 88 1 10ken of 10rgivene-s and recon- ciiation.” He wished me 10 say there would Le nothing binding in it. He freed you from all promises and asked to be remembered only asa fiiend. There are many things I should like to say 10 you, but you cannot besr them now. AL I send 15 n prayer. Fly 10 the Sacred Heart of Mary. She was & woman and will know & woman’s pain. You hevs much cause for re- morse. for your pride was certainly to blame. But may he, the Infinite, pity, surround you sod help you tolive. My aear gizl, good-by. God bless yon. EL1s R. KiNa. The young girl received this letter last Monday morning. On Monday night she made apparently an attempt at suicide by 1aking morphine. Dr. Eastman was celled in and nis efforts in this case proved suc- cessful. The girl had evidenily takena dose 100 small to accomplish her purpose. The poison with which the girl at. temopted 10 end her life on Monday con- sisted of a morphine powder, which had been purchased at Kelsey’s drugstore on October 18. Dr, Kelsey remembers hav- All their ef- | the room—a bottle of | %wfi mpathetic his Life was; how he lent the help- | raora, M faes Anna Blythe Holywell and the! Letter Which Is Supposed to Have Been the Cause of Her Sucide. only 19 years—and bright in her studies | | at the university, she seemed to those | | who knew ber an ambitious student, with | prospects far from discouraging. _Ste was | a regular student in the college of letters, | | her studies comprising mainly English | iterature and the classics. Among her instructors at the university were Pro- fessor Clapp, §Dr. Richardson, Associate Professor Lyle and Dr. Babcock. The college students who come from | | Redlands know little of the dead eirl. They say thatshe was studious while at be Rediands High School, from which she graduated last June, bat that ber actions were at times peculiar. Oiten she would come to school very shabbily clad | and wearing old worsted slippers, al- | though her folks were comfortably well | off. Besides her father, who is a furniture- | dealer in Redlands, and her mother, who has been recently in poor healtu, she had two sisters, botn older than herself. Her people are very quiet and highly re- spected in Redlands.. D. R. Curtis, W. 8. Sessions and Will L. Lien Holywell's Writing. Fowler, all university students from Red- lands, speaks very bhighly of the dead girl. *‘She was the lsst person in the world that I would expect to take her own life,” said Sessions vesterday. The girl recently received a visit from ber father, who came to San Francisco a iew weeks ago asa delegate to the Grand Court from Court Rediands No. 1224, L O.F. Mr. Holywell stands high 1n Redlanus fraternal circles and isa mem- ber of the local Presbyterian church. Few people in Berkeley were weil ac- quainted with the girl. Until a month | #g0 she boarded with Mrs. Berg at 1909 | Berkeley way. Thegirl was troubled with | ber feet, and moved nearer the university in order to avoid the long walk to and from her classes. Accordng to Mrs. Berg Miss Holywell bad had brain’ fever twice, but she nevertheless studied assiduously. She believes that the unfortunate girl was Fac-Simile of Address on B;AM‘/"W’@‘ ; e Gl o Suand., My’t‘m | S | Te et & P ot fanis ol £y dut T e and A i 1(7/ MML,.//.,,?_‘JA“/; ondfld o L e o e e el e been there for three weeks. She had very | little correspondence, and I am entirely ata loss to imagine who the author of that letter was, for she never spoke to me of n_ny’n! the parties who are mentioned in it If meager knowledge is obtainable in re- gard to the unfortunate suicide informa- tion about the various persons mentioned in tbe letter and telegram is still more scarce. Five myslerious characters loom up in the background of the story, and | efforts to identify them have thus far proved futile. Who is the Bishop Biythe, in whose | care tue letter wa< addressed to Miss | Holywell? Postmaster Vincent knows | of no such person in Berkeley and the Berkeley directory does not contain his | name, _The inquest over the body of the dead girl will be beld next Monday morning at haif-past 9 o'clock. W. C. Holywell, the father, telegraphed this morning that he | would leave Redlands by the next train. | It is expected tbat he will arrive at Berke- ley some time to-day. Yesterday a letter and package came for the dead girl, but they will not be opened until the inquest. On her body wasfound a small white cros: ool e el SUICIDE THEORY DISBE- LIEVED, REDLANDS, Car, Oct. 30.—W. C.| Holywell, father of the girl who com- mitted suicide at Berkeley, scouts the theory that she committed suicide, and claims that she had no male acquaint- | ances either here or in Berkeiey. Says he | never heard of “‘Arthur” Biyihe or King. He left for Berkeley at 6:40 this evening on the Bouthern Pacific. Holywell, who is in the furniture business here, is well known, and the tragic accounts of his daughter’s death have created a sensation. The girl graduated lasi year from the High School here with high honors, and was considered a brilliant girl with a bright future. She was modest and retiring, and the bereaved family cannot believe that she committed suicide. Mr. Holywell visited ber while in San Fran- cisco about two weeks ago, and she seemed in good spirits. He also received a letter last evening in which she made no sugges- tion of anything that led him to believe that she was at sll troubled. She has suffered for some time with her feet, was accasiomed 10 take morphine, and her fatner believes she took an overdose. NLLe. L i———— Letter to Miss Holywell. | There was a hot time at Central Park | & yesterdav afternoon. The day was chilly, but on the diamond the atmosphere was very sultry. The California Markets and the Fresno Re-| T TS C AT T T T T TTE T ET LT LT BETTETTTY WHAT TWIRLER THOMPSON SAYS. £ of other games. when we played with Bakersfield. the Will & Fincks. We have never got ill called a ball O'N game, gives you the worst of it? ‘We have protested against Gagus we play, but it hasn't done any good. This thing has all been fixed. LI R R R R R R R R R R ER R R L EE] Gumuwmwm 20900922222222 299 u,unumnfl | publicans were scheduled to play. Fresno not only had to play against the Markets | but against Umpire Tip O'Neil, and yot the men from the raisin center came very near beating this combination, hard as it | may seem. The trouble commenced as soon as| O'Nelil appeared on the ground. To the | most disinterested person it was apparent | tuat from the first, whether intentionally | or unintentionally, be was giving Fresno the worst of it. Some of bis decisions | were as rageed as a Pauper-alley tramp. In the first half of the third inning Brittan was at the bat for the visitors. O'Neill commenced calling strikes on him regard less ol where the ball came or went. | One of these strikes was the rawest kind | of work. The sphere came directly at Brittau and the batter had o turn quickly in order to avoid being struck. Tue bali | was eighte n inches at least from the plate, vet O'Neill calied a strike. Brittan, at O'Neill’s command, struck ont. In the last half of the same inning Thompson, the clever pitcher for the visi- | tors, put one over the plate that cut it in two. There never was a prettier ball de- livered, yet O'Neill calied ita ball. ‘This was too much for Thompson and | his associates and they waiked in from the field, berating O'Neill and loudly pro- cluiming that he was giving the game to | toe Markets by the rankest kind of um- piring. All the yers took a hand in the| wraugle, while the few spectators preseut | cheered the stand taken by he visitors. About tuis tume Charley Gagus, who, the Kresnos contend, gave the Will & Finck game to that nine, entered the grounds. “You ain’t no good,” shouted some- one, “'but get in anyway.” The players were gathered about the | plate, several of them with bats in hand. | Tney were gesticulating wildly and it| looked as if serious trouble was at hand. Policemen entered the grounds, Francks, the agile shortsiop of Fresno, was about to smash another player, when O'Neull stepped beiween them. It became so torrid for the unpopular umpire that O'Neill left the vicinity of the home plate and walked to the first- base coaching line, followed by a number of enraged players. The spectatorsyelle1 and hooted. D. R. McNeil anda Napoleon James Joseph Fagan, manager of the Markets, appeared on the diamond and added fuel to the flame. After some time had elapsed O'Neill walked to the home plate amid derisive shouts and yells. A man with stentorian tones appeared in the grandstand and announced that the admiss.on money would be refunded at the box-office. There was a stampede for the office and quite & number received their coin and passed out. “This won’t do,” said Andy Clunie to A. M. Lawrence, both ot whom were pres- ent. “If the money is refunded you won’t have a coporal’s guard to the game to- morrow.” And then Lawrence injected himself into the row as a peacemaker in the inter- est of charity. Finally the game wasresumed, but only for a sbort time, when another storm broke over the diamond, and there was a cloud of indignation such as was never before seen on a California ball tield. This happened in the first halfof the fifth inning. Thompson was on third. McCarthy hit a fly to Krug on third. The ball was dropped, and Thompsen came for home wiih the fleetness of a deer. He siid and reached the plate before Stoecker caught the ball. O’ Neiil cailed him out. And then the storm broke forth in fury. How turbulent it was! Spectators ciimoed the fence. “Idon’t know you,” shouted one man to the Fresno argrega- tion. “Ibet $50 that you would win this gume, but quit right now. I'd much rather lose my money than see you This whole tournament business is nothing but a bunko game. were robbed out of to-day’s game, the tame as we nave been robbed out We were robbed out of the game with pitched a finer ball than the one I sent over the nlate to Krug, and which Now all umpires are liable to err. be said when an umpire, in the rankest kind of decisions, in game after a square deal in this town, except 3 To-aay’s work was so raw that I couidn’t help but protest. I never g RALPH THOMPSON, Pitcher of the Fresno Nine. ‘Without Pain! First_base ol rrors— on called balis—Fiesno 4 Left on bases—Fres Markeis 6 — v Thompson 6, vy L by —Wiiliams. Time of game—2 h. 10 min Uinpires—Maries and U'Nelll. Official scorer— Edgur C. humpbrey. We But what is to and O’Neill umpiring in games that Some Hope for Reform. 1 Judge Dunce of the Superior Court sent a boy named Robert Dougher Preston School of Industry, and o t / | Anna Biytne Helywell was a singularly | know of. 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