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People at Lafayette Will Not Believe Pearl Ball Killed Herself, Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LAFAYETTE, Ind., Aug. 23. — Interest in the case of Pearl Ball, the young girl, formerly of Lafayette, who yes terday died under sensational circum stances in Chicago, was intensified to day by the report that she was mur dered. When the report came yesterday that the girl had taken forty-five morphine tablets after being ordered out of a restau rant with a male companion for disorderly conduct It was not believed by her friends and relatives here. Her life here had been so blameless and her social connections so high in this city that the report that she had been guilty of indiscretions found no credence. Today’s report that she was poisoned with “knock-out” drops by a young man in whose company she was seen early in the evening preceding her death seemed more plausible. At the time of her death she was engaged to be married to a young Chi cago physician, and her first request when discovered was to be taken to him. He la bored to save her, but she passed away without explaining how she was poisoned. Miss Ball was upusually talented in music. Her education had run the best. She had composed a little and gave promise of a bright future. The Chi police have abandoned the case, Miss J's family giving them no encouragement. She was in a wire room with a man and was sent home by the eye of the place in a cab. She lived with her parents at No. 2 Forty-seventh place. When she was lifted from the cab a coag of morphine was found in her pocket; forty-five of the one hundred pills therein had been taken. The coroner's jury found a verdict of suicide.
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The Indianapolis Journal
Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Fri, Aug 30, 1901
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