The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-17
MRS. KATE CURRAN.
The Unfortunate " oman Cuts Her Throat
and win Live but a short Time.

The Unfortunate Woman Cuts Her Throat
and viii Live but short Time.
Butte, March 16.-Mrs. Kate Curran.
wife of John Curran, a miner living in
little two-roomed cabin out in West
Park beyond the second gulch, cut an
awful cash in her throat tonight, pre-
sumably while temporarily insane, and
will die before long. Mr.. Cur
ran was up town this evening, and
when he returned home about 1920
O'Clock he found his wife and their lit
tie 9-year-old daughter in bed. He sat
down in the kitchen to read, and
about half past IL o'clock his wife got
which adJoins the east end of the
house In going out she had to pass
through the kitchen, and when she
failed to return in a reasonable length
of time her husband went in search of
her. He was Mortified on opening the
woodshed door to see her lying on the
floor in a big pool of blood and with
a stream of blood pouring from a terri
BILE cash in her throat. His first
thought was to summon assistance,
and he ran to the residence of H. Ira
Wis, who returned to the house with
him, and together they carried the wo-
man into the kitchen.
Officers King and Goudie were noti-
fed and they summoned both DR..
Wells and Coroner Richards. who re-
sponded promptly. A glance at the
poor woman's horribly lacerated throat
convinced the doctor that she was be-
yond the reach of surgical skill. There
were three separate and distinct cuts
in her throat which gave evidence of
an insane determination to end her ex-
istence. The longest one was about
four inches long and in addition to
cutting several of the small arteries 1t
nj ha IND
pipe just above the larynx and opened
the gullet.
The two other gashes were an inch
and half long and not deep enough to
do any serious damage. The woman
used a bread knife with a 10-inch blade
and keen edge and ii was found COW
cred with blood under the floor of the
woodshed. Her eyes were wide open
for more than an hour after the doctor
arrived, but there was no recognition
in them and she showed no comprehen-
sion OF things that were going on about
her She breathed entirely through the
severed windpipe and showed a won
derful degree of vitality. The little girl
was not allowed to leave the bedroom
in which her mother had left her when
she went out to take her life, and she
begged piteously to be allowed to see
her mamma. She was removed to the
residence of a friend and was not per-
mitted to see the bloodstained and
senseless form that was bundled up in
the blankets on the kitchen floor.
Mrs. Curran is 3S years old and has
been married for % years. She has
been in poor health for about Is years
and was subject to epileptic fits, from
which she suffered first in Leadville in
1880. Her condition finally became so
serious that she was sent to Warm
Springs last April. Last January her
husband brought her up from the asy-
lum. He was advised to leave her
there. but he thought that she was well
enough to leave. She had shown signs
OF insanity since then, however, and
had threatened to kill her
self on account of i'll health
several times. There is little doubt
that she was insane when she cut her
throat. Curran is a miner and worked
AT the st. Lawrence up to few days
ago. -
The woman clung to life with q
tenacity that was unprecedented and
rallied several times when she seemed
70 be breathing her last. DR.. Wells
stated. however. at O'Clock this morn
ing that recovery was impossible ano
that death might ensue at any minute