The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-07-16
1 MOTHERS HATRED.
1t Drives a Beautiful Woman to Sui
eide.
The Cause of the Death of Anna LANCE.
Feller.--A Dose Of "ROugh on
Rats"

The mystery of the death of Anna
LANCE, the young lady from Council
Bluffs, who died at the residence of J. D.
Hagerman, Thursday night, has been
cleared away. The poor woman commit
ted suicide, to end her troubles. A cor
oner's inquest was held yesterday, also
post mortem examination, and the truth
was brought to light
The dead woman was native of
Switzerland, and came to this country
several years ago. Her parents now re-
side in that country, She married, when
nothing more than child Jacob Teller
Their welded life was not happy |
one, and they separated. Feller is
now living at Boonville, Iowa.
She went to Council Bluffs, where she |
met Louis Bechtler, hotel man of that
city She engaged herself to marry him
as soon as she could procure divorce
from her husband. Suit was commenced
and Feller agreed not to contest it. The
divorce would have been procured in Sep
TENDER, and the marriage was to take
place the LIST of October,
But the gossips of Council Bluffs found
out the past history OF Mrs. Teller, and
they set their tongues to wagging. Mr..
J. D. Hagerman and Bechtler are friends,
and he requested Mr.. Hagerman that Mrs.
Teller come to Rock Island, and remain
till the divorce was procured, and the
marriage day should arrive, Mr.. Hager-
man consented, and the lady came
Hell hath no furies like a woman's
scorn, was well illustrated in this case
She arrived here on the LIST of July, evil
IDENTIFY thinking that she would have peace.
| But peace was not for her She received
a letter from the mother of Louis Bechtler,
containing harsh language against her
She vowed that she should not
marry her son. This preyed on the mind
of Anna, and on Thursday evening she
came down town, went to the Fourth
Avenue drug store, procured box of
Rough on Rats, and took dose
From the testimony of Mrs. Hagerman,
before the coroner's jury, Mrs Feller took
sick soon after supper She told Mrs.
Hagerman that she would die that night;
| and that if she died, her brother was in
Chippewa Falls, Wis. From that time on
she grew rapidly worse, and DR.. Barth was
| called The sufferer had all the
symptoms of cholera morbus, and
the doctor prescribed for such. He has
been the physician for MI Hagerman's
family for several years, and no thought
of such thing as suicide entered his
mind at that time After prescribing he
left, promising to call next morning
Shortly after II o'clock he was awakened,
and told that the girl was dying He
went immediately to the residence of Mr..
| Hagerman, but he found that death had
done its terrible work. Then the idea of
suicide entered the doctors mind. He
heard words dropped by Mrs. Hagermsn
and other ladies which strengthened his
suspicious When Mr.. Hagerman arrived
home and the doctor spoke to him about
it, his answer seemed to indicate that he
was not surprised at the idea of suicide.
The doctor then refused to issue a death
certificate until the affair was investi-
gated.
The brother of the dead girl arrived
Sunday He objected TO post mortem
but. neverth eless, it was held, The result
was:
The undersigned, having on the, 18th
| day of July, 1888, made a post mortem
examination on the body of Mrs. Anna
Feller, nee Anna LANCE, find as follows:
She was not pregnant. The liver was
healthy; kidneys slightly congested; spleen
healthy. The stomach. duodanum, and
small intestines with the omentum, were
in a highly inflamed condition The
mucous coats of the stomach and upper
third of the small intestines were COM
pletely destroyed. From the condition
| of the stomach and intestines it IS our
opinion that she died from the effects of
irritant poison, taken into the stomach.
| SAMUEL C, PLUMMER, NJ, D.,
GEORGE E BARTH, NJ d.
/ The verdict of the coroneI's jury was
as follows;
4 We, the undersigned, sworn to inquire
of the death of Mrs. Anna Teller, nee
LANCE, do on oath find that she came TO
her death by poison administered by her
own hand
ALEX. STEEL, Foreman
E. G, CRoPPER.
ALBERT WARREN,
/ LOUIS V. ECKHART,
THOMAS TH0RINGToN.
GEORGE FOSTER.
| The dead woman would have be en- 10
years old the 18th of October She was
endowed with great personal beauty, and
was very intelligent and lady like. The
cause of her rash act was no doubt an &C
count of the tongues of the Council
Bluffs gossips who sought to make her a
vile woman. This coupled with the
hatred of the mother of Mr. Bechtler, was
, more than she could stand.
The remains will be taken to Minnesots
for interment.
PATENTS.