The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-05-28
TOOK BEDBUG POISON.
A Young Wife Seeks to End
Her Unhappy Life.
she GAVE wARNInc IN TIME.
Runaway Marriage which Lea Mrs-
NichoIas Morris - Attempt 20
Take Her Own Life.

At 1870 o'clock yesterday afternoon .
rather handsome yo1ng woman staggered
into police headquarters and startled the
half dozen officers with the declaration. II
have taken poison and want to see my
husband before die"
In answer to the question Of Lieutenant
Haggerty she stated that her name was
Mrs Nicholas Norris. that she lived two
doors mp Terrace street above police head
quarters, and that her husband Was .
waiter and was then down town. Again
imploring the officers to find her husband,
she rushed from the station into her house
and threw herself upon = bed in the front
room.
Lieutenant Haggerty and Officer Cover
followed her into the room. While Captain
Kinley summoned Drs. w. ]. Hagan and
George Newiaiids To the officers the
woman stated that she had taken bedbug
poison. and on the bureau was found an
empty vial. marked Ounce mixture of oil
of cedar and tenxine. Poison DR.. Hagan
arrived few moments later and immedi.
ately administered emetics to relieve the
woman Of the poison. DR.. Newlands came
few moments later, and the two
physicians used stomach pump on their
patient. A large amount of the
poison had been absorbed. however,
and the unfortunate woman was
soon in commissions. She had five
terrible spasms and then sank Into . stu
por. Her respiration remained good and
regular and no attempt was made to arouse
her. She remained so until late in the
afternoon when she awoke herself. She
improved from that time on and at mid
night was doing very well.
The woman's reason for attempting self
destruction was difficulty with her hus-
band, who Is q restaurant waiter. They
quarreled yesterday morning and he
left the house, going down town.
The wife brooded over the trouble
during the forenoon, and at IL O'Clock went
to Guys drug store and asked for bedbug
poison. The poison given her is . conf
mon one for the purpose she named. Re
turning home she swallowed the mixture.
and waiting until she thought it was be-
ginning to operate went to the police sta
ton to send for her husband.
Mrs. Morris was married to her husband
by Justice Rivers October IS last. She was
the daughter of Thomas Stewart, who lives
with his wife and two daughters at Ninth
and Dearborn streets. Morris, who was
then waiting on table at Wright's restau-
rant on Jefferson street, induced her
to leave her home. and the two were
arrested at the City dock. attempting
to leave for Victoria. The complaint was
made by her father. The two agreed to
marry. and the ceremony was per-
formed BY the justice who would
otherwise have been the committing
magistrate. They lived happily together
for time. but finally love vanished with
the entrance OF poverty into the home. and
quarrels followed. For months hardly .
day has passed without dispute or quar-
rel OF some kind. They culmi-
mated in her attempt to kill herself
yesterday. Mrs. Morris is not over q
years OF age, is short. decided brunette
and is quite pretty. Morris is an English
man, about IS years Of age. blonde. and
rather good looking.