More About Mrs. Emma Covell

Our readers will remember the case of the well-dressed young woman who feil in front of the residence of Christian Mack a few weeks ago, her strange actions and apparently contradictory stories. She was working her way to Dakota and according to the article in the Chicago Tribune, published below, has got as far as a hospital in Chicago. While here she kept asking for Mrs. Julia Ricketts. This at the time was thought to be a blind, Mrs. Ricketts, who is a daughter of Daniel S. Millen, not now living in the city. The Argus editor recently met a sister of Mrs. Ricketts, who said that she knew Mrs. Covell and that she had been a very estimable lady, with whom Mrs. Ricketts boarded while in Dakota. That Mrs. Covell had had a great deal of rouble, her husband with whom he lived very happily being killed )y lightning at the same time her ather was killed. Afterwards she married some man in this county who is said to have maltreated her nd then she went East to live vith her mother. These facts gathred from a third party corrobórate Mrs. Covell's strange story. The Chicago Tribune says: Mrs. E. Covell is, or rather was when she was sound in health and jody, a good looking woman, havng the appearance of intelligence nd refinement. Her attire was neat, modest and in good taste. "hree years ago her husband died, eaving her at the age of thirty to niake her own way in the world. "his she was able to do until misortune overtook her. Last spring she went to visit a ister at Newark. Early in May he started to return to her home in Sanborn, S. D. She was coming west on the Michigan Central. Some miles east of 'Jackson, Mich., she went to the water cooler to get a rink. A sudden lurch of the car hrew her violently to the floor. She feit a sharp pain in her back, nd that was the last she knew for ome time. When she regained onsciousness she was unable to help herself. Every motion of the train aused her intense agony. When Jackson was reached she vas removed from the train and aken to the city hospital. There he was told she had sustained a seere injury of the spine. It might e weeks before she would be able o walk, or it might be months; perïaps she never would walk. Week dragged after week and ound no improvement in her condition. Mrs. Covell says the Michgan Central railroad company paid he expenses of keeping her at the ïospital. However this may be, and whether he had a right or not, he overseer of the poor, a man named Hawley, went to the hospital Thursday and told Mrs. Covell he ïad come to send her to her home n Sanborn. It would not have required a particularly keen observer to see that the woman was in no condition to be moved. The president of the hospital is Dr. Williams. The hospital physician is Dr. Wright. How much or how little blame is to be laid at their door for permitting her to be moved cannot now be known. At all events, Mrs. Covell was taken to the depot and placed on board a west-bound train. Then she was given a ticket which read to Chicago instead of Sanborn, S. D. She protested, expostulated, and "begged Overseer Hawley to give her a through ticket. But Overseer Hawley told her she would be sent on from Chicago and left her. Itiszio miles from Jackson to Chicago; it seemed like 210,000 to poor Mrs. Covell, for every lurch of the car caused her agony. What she suffered cannot be imagined. much less described. At last Chicago was reached. Utterly exhausted, and too faint to move, Mrs. Covell was carried out of the car and into the station by the trainmen. The matron did all she could for her, but that was not much. Mrs. Covell has a sister in Newark, N. J., but her circumstances are not such as to permit her to help the cripple. Her mother-inlaw, Mrs. Mary E. Prindle, Uves on a farm near Sanborn, S. D. She, too, is in humble circumstances, but she is still willing to give Mrs. Covell a home and care. But this is all she can do. Prairie fires last spring destroyed granarles and outhouses, so the family cannot raise the tnoney to pay Mrs. Covell's passage. So when the Jackson authorities learned this they determined to get rid of her somehow or another, lest she might become a burden on the county. Although the horses were driven at a walk down the smooth pavement of Michigan avenue, the ride to St. Luke's hospital caused her intense pain. She was exhausted and suffering greatly when placed in bed. Late last night the hospital authorities reported that her condition had not improved. "Eúrope reports 70,000,000 peopie wearin? w ooien,