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Show LEAPS TO HER DEATH FROM BIG BUILDING Mln Maude Van Dueien, Nebraska 8chool Teacher, Ends Life In Chicago Chicago, Nov. 25. Possessed with tho Idea that sho was pursuod for dishonorable purposes, Miss Maudo pan Deuscn 25 years old, leaped from tho twentieth story of tho Mc-Corralck Mc-Corralck building and Was crushed to death on tho stono paving of an alley at tho street lovel. Sho, Jumped Jump-ed from an alley flro escapo nearly 250 feet abovo tho ground In view of many pedestrians. Her body struck another flro escapo at tho flrst floor and Dounded Into the alloy way nearly every bono being broken. Mlsa Van Dcusen according to papers pa-pers found In her pockctbook which sho carried with her was a school teacher In Humboldt, Neb. From her papers It nppearcd that sho had been seeking a position hero and had been obcssed with tho Idea that sho had been In danger from whlto slav ers. Sho wrote that sho had been driven to appeal for protection to Chief ot Pollco MeWecnoy, to tho federal department of justice and to eoctnl settlement workers. "Death Before Dishonor" Sho had prepared for her death by plunlng across her bosom a strip of white linen which had been stained stain-ed crimson at cither end nnd on which sho hau printed in largo letters: let-ters: "Death! Death before dishonor." Sho had tied around her neck a copy of tho now testament in which sho had marked passages in St. John. Sho held her hand bag In her hand as sho Jumped and It was picked pick-ed up near her body. In It was another an-other marked bible nnd n typewritten' typewrit-ten' statement of several thousand words which sho had entitled "Pnrt of My Llfo's History." "I will dlo clean If I have to kill myself," was written at th0 head of ono of tho sheets. Tho landlauy of tho houso In which Miss Van Douson had been rooming said tho young woman had i been without employment for somo time. Leaves Statement "I am trying to write this without ho least emotion," her typewritten statement began, "and though tho following statements may seem dramatic, dra-matic, your reason will nssuro you that they contain only common Bcnso "First, I have very ltttlo money and am not allowed to hold a position. posi-tion. "Second, I will accept no money but that I earn. "To bo without money Is to bo exposed to any amount of Insult and to fall into tho hands of tho spiritualist spirit-ualist whlto slave trndo.i "If I do not get help It will bo a certainty that I cannot escapo falling fall-ing Into tho hands of tho spiritualist whlto slavo trade, and that will forco mo to self destruction. " Tho pollco do not understand what Miss Van Douson meant by "spiritualist "spirit-ualist whlto slavo trado." Letter to Jane Addami A copy of a letter In her hand bag addressed to Miss Jane Addams read: "I wondor if this noto will over reach you at all. Good people nowadays nowa-days ard protected by secretaries so that It is hard to get to them. If you havo as I understand, clothed a number of harlots with respectability respecta-bility and rcfuso to help a girl who has to bo right I shall not oven thank you for helping mo. But I shall lovo you If you aro good roally or Intend to bo as you dotormlno." A letter apparently written by MIbb Addams In reply Btnted that sho was too busy to seo Mlsa Van Douson at that tlmo, but would mako a later nppolntment with her. Miss Van Douson It Is said was tho daughter ot Dr, Lydla Van Douson Dou-son of Falls City, Neb. Sho Is said to havo told friends that sho worried a great deal over a Hindu cult. Tho young woman Is said to havo been harrasscd by an hallucination that sho was pursued by tho iopro-eentatlvos iopro-eentatlvos of this cult. Had Mental Ailment fc Falls City, Nub., Nov. 25. Miss J ijuaudo Van Douson was woll known in Falls City where sho grow to womanhood. wo-manhood. Sho taught school in FallB City and In Richardson county districts dis-tricts for n numbor' of years. About six years ago Miss Van Dcusen Dcu-sen suffered from somo peculiar men tal allmont and became ostranged from her family. Sho Imagined thoy woro trying to doprlvo her ot her proporty. For a tlmo sho was treated treat-ed In n Lincoln hospital and lator Bho wont to Chicago. For tho last two years her relatives know llttlo about hor, but they understood sho I was making her way In Chicago, working as a typist or stenographer. Word reached hor mothor recently recent-ly that Mlsa Von Deuscn needed money. Her mother Bald that It her daughter would write sho would gladly send tho money. The daughter daugh-ter would not wrlto. |
