Washington, March 4—Miss Beulah Eller, 24-year-old manicurist, of Asheville, was found dead in her boarding house room here shortly after noon today. A gas heater in the room was turned on and Dr. D. Ramsey Nevitt, coroner, certified the cause of her death as accidental. Police stated the girl had been drinking.
Miss Eller, whose home was in Asheville, came to Washington about a month ago and was employed as a manicurist at the Lee House here. Burned matches near the heater indicated that she had attempted to light it before lying down in her bed. Except for her shoes and stockings, she was fully clothed. The body was found by a colored maid.
The police stated today that the girl was sent home by her employer yesterday afternoon because she had been drinking. A young man friend of the girl called at her home about 7:30 last night and knocking on her room door obtained no response.
The girl’s mother, Mrs. Y.D. Eller, of 80 North Ann street, Asheville, is seriously ill and at the point of death, a letter from her physician found in the room disclosed. Another letter from Mrs. Eller to her daughter pleaded with her to stop drinking. The letter from the doctor took Miss Eller to task for her “behavior” and unless she mended her life she would cause her mother’s death.
Two empty whiskey bottles were found in a bureau drawer in the room, Dr. Nevitt said.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Friday, March 5, 1926
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