The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-04-24
TIRED OF HER TRIALS
Was the Cause Of Mrs. Agnes
D. Gearheart Committing
Suicide Yesterday.
The Testimony at the Inquest Not
at all Complimentary TO Her
Husband.

Gearheart, wife Of Elias Gearheart, had
swallowed poison, al her home, on the
northeast col ner Of Second street and Mis-
souri, avenue, to which point the family
removed few days ago Tor the purpose vi
carrying on the laundry business. Hasten
ing thither, the reporter found the report
verified, and glance At the victim was all
that was necessary 10 convince the Obse, yer
that death was only a question OF brief
time.
Living Oh the bed, with face
perfectly livid and limbs cold.
was Mrs. Gearhesrt, while bend
ing over her and applying a Ralvanic
battery was DIR. Ed. Small, who had ar
rived probably hall an hour before the re-
porter. The question, "Will she recover
was asked, u which the doctor replied that
she certainly would not. A few minutes
later DIR. Scott put in an appearance, and
both he and DR. Small worked with the
unconscious woman until about quarter
to IL o'clock, when they took their depart
ure, fully satisfied that further efforts to
save her life would prove fruilless.
But death did not ensue as soon as the
physicians had anticipated, for it was near
iy five o'clock before she breathed her last
and her suffering WAS at an end.
All kinds of .umOrs we've afiOat AZ to the
causes which led TO the rash act, but the
one generally accepted was that unPleas-
ant relations had existed between the dead
woman and her husband.
The coroner was notified. and the follow
ing gentlemen were selected As the jury for
holding the Inquest: II. ID. Stringer, +.
5. Arnold, w. ID. Wallace, T.. +. McNees.
SIS. Headen and George Haniey. All o'c.ock
they met al Coroner OversIreeI's office, when
tine folio sing testimony WAS introduced:
Cbas. kooInsburg, sworn Il have been
wor king In Gearhearts laundry. Last Sat
urday night Mrs. Gearheart sent me up
town To get her some medicine, saying she
wanted il To- take iron rust out oil clothes.
She did not tell me the name of the medi-
cine, but wrote ii on a piece of paper and
gave me twenty cents TO pay for il. When
| got il. at DIR. Woods drug store, saw
that il was not the kind We bad been using
for removing iron rust. 10 determined not
Ia give il to her i returned home anu
went 10 my room, and she came and asked
me for it. l told her would not give il
to her and she went away. On Sunday i
asked her if she wanted the medicine, but
she made no reply. have never heard OF
any trouble in the family. Never knew of
Mrs. Gerheart having any kind of sick
hess but headache. She was respondent
and gloomy because there was but little
work coming into the laundry.
Mn. +. j. Strsnsberry, swOrn:-Since
last Tuesday | have lived in. the sa me
house, with Mrs. Garheart. On Sunday
she told me OF having sent Charlie Rooms
burg TO the drug store on Saturday night
Tor morphine, but said she gave him to un-
ierstanu that it was something to remove
iron rust She said she mad been suffering
with q pain in her head and stomach, and
when he returned with the drug and re-
fused to give il to her she became spunky.
Sine said he might remain a thousand
years before she would ask him to do an
other errand for her. She said she sup
posed he was suspicious that she wanted 10
take her life, but such was not the case.
This was on Sunday. Yesterday morning,
about 7:30 o'clock, she was still in bed and
I5asked Charlie ii she was sick. He said
she was lying on the bed and not feeling
very we'll. l went in and asked her If she
vas sick. She said she had sick head
ache. She would not have any breakfast,
but gave her q cup of coffee.
which she drank and then threw up.
then lett the room, and a short time
thereafter Sallie Kelby. = colored woman,
came and told me she thought Mrs. Gear
heart had taken something TO poison her
'eif. went in, and she soon began to
yrow black in the face. She could not
'peak.
Sallie Kelby (cOlored) sworn-I have
oeen working in Gearhesrt's laundry. A
week ago last Thursday, while living on
Third street, Mrs. Gesrheart said to me
hat she was tired of living the way she
mad been. / asked her what trouble she
had. She said that was for her to know,
,ut last Saturday night she tod me she
,ad had little trouble with her husband
md she was going to kill herself She
aid she could no longer live the way she
had been living. had heard her threaten
o take her life three or four times before.
This morning she asked me for the keys to
her drawer and also . glass of water. i
rave her both. ] told her I was going
way for q short time. She asked me
o close the doors and not be gone long.
went away and came back in
.bout half an honr. Before going
saw her 90 to drawer, but
lid not see her take anything from it.
When looked in on returning she did not
'eem to be suffering much. never knew
II her getting any kind Of medicine. This
8 the first time have ever known of her
aking morphine. She used to take lauda-
,um when living on Third street She
aid Gearheart did not treat her like he
,sed to and she did not care 10 live.
lon't think he treated her very we'll last
but guess one was Is much to
'lame as the other.
Lou Howard, another colored woman,
NEW nothing beyond what Mrs. Kelby
lad testified to.
Elias Gearheart husband of the de-
eased, sworn Il had no thoughts of this
shen left home yesterday morning. NV
'ife was then in bed complaining Of neu-
algia in her head, back and stomach. She
lad worked too hard and was broken down.
sunday evening che said If she had some of
he liquid We uced in removing iron rust
hs would take it, hoping it would relieve