Berkeley Student From Redlands Dies of Morphine Poisoning
A young California college student's sudden death from morphine, rumored to stem from a failed romance, was reported in a single terse paragraph — the kind of unresolved personal tragedy newspapers of the era rarely followed up on.
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Mesa Free Press · November 19, 1897 · Page 2
1 min readAnna Hollywell of Redlands, a student at Berkeley, died of morphine poisoning. Her parents are much mystified, but it is supposed to be the tragic end of a love affair.
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