The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, November 29, 1912, Page PAGE 6, Image 6
SEEKS AND FINDS
SAFETY IN DEATH.
Young Woman Afraid of "White
Slavers," Kills Herself?Obsessed
\/ith Belief that She Was Pursued
by Agents of Shameful Trade,
She Jumps From Building.
c. nicago, iNov. i:>.?rossesseu wit??
the idea that she was pursued for dishonorable
purposes, Miss Maude Van
Deusen, 35 years old, leaped from the
20th story of the McCormick building
and was crushed to death on the
stone pavement of tin alley at the
street level. She jumped from a fire
escape nearly 250 feet above the
ground, struck another fire escape
at the first floor and bounded into
the alleyway. Nearly all bones were
broken.
Miss Van Deusen, according to papers
found on her person, was a
school teacher in Humboldt, Neb. It
appears that she had been seeking a
position here and had been obsessed
vith the idea that she had been ir
danger from white slavers. She
wrote that she had been driven to
appeal for protection from Police
Chief McWeeney, to the federal department
of justice and to social settlement
workers.
She had prepared for her death by
pinning across her bosom a strip of
white linen which had been stained
with crimson at each end, and or
wmcn sne printed in larpe letters
"Death before dishonor." She hat
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tied around her neck a copy of thfc
New Testament, in which she had
marked passages in John. She held
her handbag in her hand as she jumped
.and it was picked up near her
body. In it was another marked
Bible and a typewritten statement of
several hundred words, entitled, "Part
of My Life's History."
"I will die clean if I have to kill
myself," was written at the head of
one of the sheets.
A strip of bacon, a small paper of
pepper, an ounce of tea and $.'1.19 ir.
currency also were found in the
handbag. The police assert that Miss
Van Deusen evidently was deranged
when she leaped from the building
The landlady of the house in which
Miss Deusen had been rooming said
that the young woman had been with>
out employment for some time.
"I am trying to write this without
the least emotion," her typewritten
scavemeni oegan, "ana, mougn cne
following statements may seem dramatic,
your reason will assure you
. that they contain only common sense.
I "I have very little money and am
i not allowed to hold a position. I will
( accept no money but that I earn,
i "If I do not get help it will be a
. certainty that I can not escape falling
into the hands of the spiritualist
white slave trade and that will force
me to self-destruction."
1 The police do not understand what
: Miss Van Deusen meant by "spiritI
ualist white slave trade."
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Asheville, N. C., Nov. 25.?Miss
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ONCE CONDEMNED TO DEA'I H,
Rut Capt. Watkins Escaped and {
Lived to the Age of 79. j
Clinton, Mo., Nov. 23.?Capt. W. G.
Watkins, 79 years old, who served under
Gen. Joe Shelby in the civil war,
died here today. While recruiting a
company for the Confederate army,
Capt. Watkins was discovered within
the Union lines and was captured, 1
coourt-martialed and ordered shot. ^
President Lincoln approved the order,
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and served through the remainder
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