St. Paul daily globe., 1895-11-19
SHE DIED IN AGONY
MISS MABEI. TULI.ER ENDS HER
LIFE WITH A DOSE OF
POISON.
TOOK ROUGH ON RATS.
DEPUTY CORONER COON NOTI-
FLED AND PAID NO ATTEN-
TION TO THE CASE.
THE FUNERAL HELD SUNDAY.
about the Burial Per-
Esit.

''She chose deliberately the other
world instead of this"
When Rev. Thomas c. Horton i'm
pressively repeated these words Sun
day afternoon at the funeral of Miss
Mabel Tuller, aged twenty-five, the
many friends present were surprised,
but they did not know that they We're
attending, the services Of one who
had committed suicide.
When Miss Tuller herself came
home last Thursday evening from
her work at the store of the Good
year Rubber company, and cheer
fully, but with unusual tenderness,
distributed candy to her sister at
their home on Dayton avenue, near
Lexington, the sister did not sur
mise that she was reserVing for her
own lips the arsenic which she had
brought with the candy. The suicide
itself was attempted in secrecy, and
secrecy has since surrounded the
real cause of the young woman's
death. Miss Tuller died Friday morn
lLSs anu llO Ii ISlASD SllAOAA AiStS ~
been made by the authorities.
Miss Tuller came to st. Paul from
Wichita, Kan, about five years ago
to join her sister, leaving in Wichita
her father and step-mother. She was
the youngest child. One sister is mar
ried. The other, who is a teacher, is
unmarried.
Three years ago Miss Mabel OBJ
tained employment as a saleswoman
in the store of the Goodyear Rubber
company on Seventh street. She
was extremely attentive to fer work,
and was much valued by her en-
ployers. Her disposition was retir-
ing. She seemed to have no intimate
male acquaintances, and took little
interest in anything but her duties
and her home life. She had never
lost a day through illness, a fact of
which she recently boasted, and was
always in apparently good spirits;
yet her sisters assert that she had
always been subject to fits of de-
lection, resulting from chronic tor
pidity Of the liver.
Last Thursday she said or did moth
ing to attract the attention Of her
fellow employees and seemed in her
usual health. When she reached
home she produced a large box of
candy, gave some to every one of
the family, and exhibited even more
than her ordinary desire to please
all. So far from being depressed, she
was extremely happy, and went
laughing to her own room. The rest
of the family left about o'clock to
attend the piano recital given by
Ernst Perabo. An hour later the
servant heard Miss Mabel groaning.
The latter had retired, and was vom-
iting profusely. She told the serv-
ant that the attack was not serious,
and was the result of mere indiges-
ton. The sisters arrived home about
11:3O o. m. Miss Mabel was then
very i'll. For some time, however,
she insisted that she was suffering
from indigestion, but at last, about
midnight, and after a paroXism of
agony, she whispered that she had
swallowed half a box Of Rough on
Rats" She said that she wanted to
die. but would add no reason. At
once a telephone message was sent
to DIR. John e. Sawyer, at his resi-
dence, 1853 Harrington avenue, telling
him that a woman had taken "Rough
on Rats" and requested his attend
ance. He stopped at Rietzeke's drug
store only long enough to secure the
necessary antidote, but when he at
last arrived far out on Dayton ave-
nue., the desperate young woman was
in the very midst Of spasm. Her
face was bloodshot, with the char
acteristic congestion of arsenic. She
could only moan feebly and repeat
for she was still conscious:
LET me die, won't you; don't care
to live any more"
Her pulse had already dwindled un-
til it was not apparent to the touch.
Only her heart throbbed slowly, with
thin, wiry beats. She repeated that
she had taken poison. DR.. Sawyer
administered his remedies without
hope of benefit, and soon the suffer-
ing girls head fell back. She ceased
TO repeat her desire for death, and
for half an hour she remained un-
conscious till her wish was realized.
DR.. Sawyer sent to the health de-
partment Friday afternoon a certifi-
cate of Miss Tullers death, stating
the cause as poisoning from taking
"Rough on Rats" He did not notify
the coroner as is customary in similar
cases. feeling that as long as no doubt
existed as to the cause of his patients
death there was nothing to inveSti-
gate. The relatives Of Miss Tuller were
naturally desirous to avoid publicity,
and congestion of the stomach was
stated rs the cause of death.
The health department was not alto
gether satisfied with the death GER
tificate which had been obtained from
the attending physician simply, and II
asked DR.. Coon, one Of the deputy cor
oners, to investigate the case. DR.. Coon
received this request Saturday morn
ing. About the same time he was noti-
fed of another death on Conway street,
which was said to need the investiga-
ton of coroner. At Conway street