Show THE MORPHINE ROUTE Minnie Hailey a Woman of the Town Suicides AFTER A NIGHTS DEBAUCH WAS ix POOR HEIAJUTH AND DE O U DESPONDENT She Was ai Native of Newton Yorra and Her True Name AVns Maggie May HcQnnde Will Be Xo Inttnest Tlic Funeral Today After a night of debauchery Maggie MayMcQuade I woman o the town kudwin as Minnie Halley committed suicide at her house of illfame at 163 West South Temple street yesterday morning The deceased lived at the place with three other girls and a woman named I Davis who passes as her mother On Saturday night they were all drinking I heavily and at 4 oclock yesterday morning Maggie called her mother to the couch where she was lying and I stated that she had taken morphine I enough to kill her Physicians were at once sent for and a I Drs Wiche and Root quickly responded re-sponded while Dr Ewing came in I later The woman soon became unconscious un-conscious and although the physicians I made every effort to save her life she died at about 1 nm Coroner Offenbach was notified and after an investigation concluded that an inquest was altogether unnecessary unneces-sary as the facts above stated were easily established The funeral will take place at 3 pin p-in today Maggie McQuade or Minnie Halley was a native of Newton Ia and was about 20 years of age She came here some years ago and it said entered upon > a life of sham at the age c 15 For r long time past she had been a regular contributor to the city treasurer treas-urer pleading guilty to the charge of prostitution Some time ago she mar ried a man known a Jack McQuade who so far as can be learned is not in the city at present The deceased left no letter nor did she make any verbal explanation of the cause of her act I is said that she had been in very poor health for a I considerable time past and it is presumed pre-sumed that in a fit of despondency duet due-t this fact she took her own life Her place was one of the low dives of the city and she was not well known even among the demi monde |