New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-18
CRAZED BY HIS IVIFE'S SUICIDE.
A CoLoRED TEACHER. on SEEING HER BODY.
sTRrGGIES WILDLY TO SHOOT HIMaEIF.

A CoLoRED TEACHER. on SEEING HEn BODY.
STRUGGLES WILDLY TO SHOOT HIMaEIF.
Ella Williams. nineteen years old. and colored,
who lives at No 322 West Thirty -seventh-st COM
rnited suicide last night by taking morphine. Her
husband. John. teacher of languages. was 50
distracted by his wifes act that he would have
shot himself had he not been prevented by three
other
The Williams couple have been married year.
They have lived happily up 10 the last few months.
but during that time Mrs. Williams has been III.
and. besides. has been respondent. Her husband.
who is a man of more intelligence than the aver
age of his race was attentive to her. and their
home was surprisingly neat and cosey but the
apparently unable to recover her
former good spirits Williams was so devoted that
he often succeeded In cheering her up but the I'M
provement never lasted long. Yesterday afternoon
Williams left his wife at o'clock. She seemed to
be all right tn n but about o'clock in the after
noon she complained 10 several friends who had
called TO see her that she did feel we'll Her
manner was not alarming for a while, but at last
she said that she going into her room 10
drink something from bottle and that she would
not be alive again.
Then Mrs Wiliams's callers became really
scared They gathered around her and told her
how foolish she was, and the woman seemed TO
regain. her and the incident was forgotten.
Iier friends thought no more OF 1t, when, about
an hour later she went into her bedroom Tor
moment and they sat awaiting her return. She did
not come, however and as the minutes passed
groans were heard from the room. Some OF the
women In. the bolder ones pushing the fright
ened ones before them. Mrs. Williams was found
lying on the bed. She asked that her husband
might be sent for but refused to tell what she
had done
Williams was found the home OF pupil and
told OF the Incident at his home He ran back bare
headed end saw his wife dead The sight of the
body unnerved him, and he nearly tainted bu, re-
covered, ard then went room Three men
who 1--we In the house and who with the Of the
tenants had crowded into the fat occupied by the
pair remembered his wifes action. and followed
him Williams was JUST pointing a revolver at his
temple when the men entered. They rushed at him
and one caught the revolver while the others seized
his arms The coored teacher shouted that he
wanted TO die and join his wife and THAI they had
no righ, 20 prevent him from taxing his life s,rug
Cling Violently all the time 70 release himself and
regain the pistol The struggle with the desperate
was finally wres;ed from Wil!iams's naads and he
was competed 10 promise that he would not again
attempt 10 take his lie
Dr. VI. f. Gun, ex-Deputy Coroner. Of No. 2is
West Thirty -cighth-st, had been summoned imme-
discovered They arrived at the house before the
woman died, as did ambulance surgeon from
Roosevelt Hospital, who had been called by police
man but Mrs Williams beyond recovery. She
died before her husbands arrival 1t no. known
he body after death. the physicians said indicated
clearly that the poison which had killed her was
Po'.ccmar W.ksman. OF the Wes; Thrty-sevenih-
further attempt by Williams his life. but he
seemed too detected to Try again.