The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-08
IN BED WITH A CORPSE
Frank Scott Wakes Up. to Find the
Dead Body Of His Wife.
The Woman Took Morphine to End
Her Troubles-Some Mys-
terry In the Case-She
Had q Lover.

By the Standards Special Wire.
BUTTE, April Twice in a little more
than u month has n man X up I'm this
city to inc himself In bed with a corpse.
The first was Charles McGinnis who went
To bed with Bessie Welsh. He awoke TO
find the woman dead from a dose OF NOR
phinc taken with suicidal intent while he
lay asleep. The second man to have a
similar terrifying experience is Frank
Scott, who retired with his wife shortly
after ~ o'clock last night. When he
arose this morning he found
the sharer Of his bed cold
remnant OF morphine i'm n paper lying on
h table told what had caused her death.
About three months ago Frank Scott
and his wife, Ella, arrived in the city
from Chicago. The woman secured en-
ploymcnt as a waitress in the Dew Drop
saloon, while he followed the pursuit of
gambling. Several week ago lie went to
Missoula To deal faro, the woman remain
ing behind. She threw up her position as
waitress and instead began to play the
piano at the same place. This she con-
tinued to do up 10 within a few days.
Yesterday Scott returned from Missoula
and told her that he had fitted up a home
there and wanted her to go back with
him. She demurred m they quarrcled
considerably. Both drank quite heavily
during the day and continued the quar-
rels, he demanding that she accompany
him to Missoula and she most emphati-
cally refusing to do so. Finally they retired
to her room at the corner of Galena and
Wyoming streets i'm the lodging house
conducted by Mrs. Williams. Here they
were called upon by some friends and
drank more beer.
About II o'clock the woman sent for
a messenger boy and when he ar
rived gave him some money and told
him TO get her some morphine. The boy
told her that he could not get the drug at
prescription. She then ordered the boy to
go to the Clipper Shades saloon, on East
Park street and get the drug from Ellie
White, on of the girls employed at that
resort. The boy did as told and Ellie very
accommodatingly pulled a bottle from
teaspoonful, saying that Emma
the drug and knew how
to use it. When the boy returned with
the drug Scott asked his wife what she
wanted him for. She replied that she
had sent him To get her p Scott
saw the boy give her the package contain
ing the poison, but did not know what its
contents were. Shortly after the boy left
the couple went to bed and Scott soon fell
asleep and did not wake until this MORN
ing. He attempted to arouse his
VIZ etf' hf',n ~ ~ VIZ sttot
der several times, saying il vas time
they were getting up, in order to catch the
train. He then discovered that she was
dead.
Early in the evening the woman told a
number of her trends that she was going
to take morphine ''just To scare Frank"
They tried 20 dissuade her from il, telling
her she was in no condition to make so
dangerous an experiment. She refused
to listen to them. No apparent reason
-. -.
attempt TO kill herself and much specula-
ton was INDUCED by those who kne her.
This afternoon a STANDARD reporter
heard mysterious rImors about a "lover'
with whom the woman was said to have
taken up during her husbands absence.
The reporter began TO follow up the clue,
and after visiting n number of places
learned that the rumors were based on
more than an imaginary oundation. The
clover" referred to is said by the woman's
friends To be a man known as Johnnie
Simpson. who within a short time was
employed in n livery stable on Lower
Main street. The persons who furnished
the information stated that almost ever
since SCOTS absence at Missoula, Simp-
son has been occupying the place OF the
head of the family and the woman APP
parently was madly i'm low q with him.
The prospects of being compelled to leave
her last love is given by her friends as the
reason why she took her life.
Emma Scot was about % years of age
and was a large blonde. more
than ordinarily good looking. Her
kinship she had outside of her husband il
a sister. who resides in Chicago. This
morning Scott telegraphed to his parents
Information Of his wife's death and this
afternoon received a reply stating that
penses of shipping the remains to Chicago
for interment,