The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-10

NV homo attractive with her limited means
that ahe hadn't time 70 think q hersslf
TO 40 in the four rooms. Then the time began
10 hang heavily. She had never before spent Q
Treen rmouniains' she lonsed Torn for a n sight q
something besides bricks and mortar and heated
Placements: and he she Thought she would much {
the meadows at home than the continual clang
Of the trolley gong in the street below her own
to 20 out OF her checks, and her husband mo-
ticed + One day he urged g. her to go TO her Yer
mont home on lor q s siD,t' ana Sn he 9 son,d ns enough 30 o
ief The homesici wife grew paler as the days
Mrs. Kate Fielding. who lives In tho rear OF tho
Curtis fiat, and Mira Fogarty. who lives directly
below, h ,.5 M9, Stf Mp. N c s,ms Become sN well enough
taking kindly interest in her. told her that she
ought &c, go away. They say that Mrs. Curtis
.oh, I haven't time to go away. 1 have such
loads Of things to do here: Every night when
thing pretty in the house that wasn't here when
he went aw9y In the morning,
The only 10y that each day brought her came
With the days close, for then husband and wife
would spend the evening. together at home, or
they would take q trolley ride as far away from
the noise Of the city Ss possible n ! and where ;, .
Xbout a week ago. 90 the neighsors say. Mrs.
Curtis told her husband that IL he would take .
vacation she would go home with him. He told
her that Il was impossible for an iceman to get
away from n,, nts S w9rs sr aH5i tS 20 .ne ss sgm% Mitih sna
him. This she refused to do, and then he told her
! that as soon as the summer rush was over they
would go to Vermont together. This apparently
satisfied tho wife. 49,
Yesterd.y neSrnins. Ene nc Curtis -, ley ..f fer hi, his
70 Sot eom ns' Som. k as early fr1 Is sISS s e95u ida ! She 1 %as
busy about the rooms for some time after that
but about, 10 o'clock Mss: Fielding saw her go
clock in the neighborhood was striking Il Mrs,
| FfeldinRs door opened and Mrs. Curtis walked
In. As abe stepped across the threshold, abe en-
soS. Mrs. Fielding, Two taken cArbolio
that for !" asked the astonished Mrs. Fielding.
"oh. 1 don't knowi Idon't know!' was the
Fielding ran down into, the street, called q .po-
liceman and told him what had happened. The
policeman sent In a hurry call FOR an amSulanse
benton, as soon as he saw the stricken woman,
ordered her removed to the hospital. She died
s sssss,d i've minutes after the hospital was
The husband. who was out on his route, was
D Do54I 4, tS Hs. S3s6 5s . ci St1s' b 81 the he sl i.s1n s9% oi
bis. wife's death. In the mean time the police
had found Mrs. Curti!'s, pocketbook. which con.
husband. When Curtis reached the house ht
opened the letter. which read as follows:
ny pEAn HrsaAyp: I win try and write a few word
90 Win VOW tel all my totks Eo2d,ey Tor me
DON'T KIN my little dog. tyou cannot keep 10 SEM
IL TO Eddie. Won't you. my iovep You don't know
how I hate TO leave you. my darling. but I must.
AK you for one last favor. Do not mourn for m'
when / am eons. Tue hand that 10 writing this viii
be cold and still when you get home, my dear. diS
not give my name at the store where I got the poison
Try and be Just a. happy - you ever were: Do no
mourn. II viii be beat for you a. it Is, my dear.
Forever. my love, sood-by.
SoRA.
F. s.-ponr touch the glass In the sink. I shaI tax
earbolic acid IN it.
This and q little Skye terrier dog. the onl.
witness to the drinking of the. death potion
The young wife had gone home at last withou
her husband.