The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-13
MORPHINE HER PANACEA
Cruelty Deserted. a Young Bride
Attempts Suicide.
HE LEFT HER PENNILeSS
She Had Been Married but Q Month
Her Husband Not Only Deserted
Her. but Robbed Her of AL
Her Savings.

Cruelty deserted by q worthless o u
she had taken for husband. a bride of a
few weeks, Mrs. Frank Daniels. took
morphine in her room at the 81.
Charles lodging house yesterday morn
ing, she says { induce sleep. but as
she swallowed enough Of the drug TO
Kill half a dozen people ii is surmised
she sought solace in death for the
SCATTERING of her idol and 10 escape
the pangs Of hunger and rant
The unfortunate woman was married
a month ago at Great Falls to Frank
Daniels. a waiter by occupation. Last
Saturday the couple came 10 Butte and
Daniels engaged a room at the 81.
Charles, paying for one night and say
ing he would keep the room till the
races were over. Sunday evening Dan
iels took his wife to the Union Family
theater. He left her there, telling her
ne might not be home that night, as ne
had found an easy poker game, and II
he did not get in she need not be wor-
fled. Daniels did not come home h a
night nor the next day and the woman
began to feel worried. When in the
evening she had occasion to go to her
trunk she found a silk dress and a
silk dress pattern had been taken.
further she found $50. the
money she had when she was married
and all the money she a in the world.
was gone also. Her worst fears were
confirmed and she sat down and in
dulged in a cry. After a time she de-
cided to go 10 the police and report her
circumstances and ask to have a search
made for her husband. She told Cap
r. D-~- Ax. An had cnnn q kNAV
leaving her no money, and how he had
added robbery to his desertion OF her.
Captain Dawson promised to look into
the case and the woman left to go
home. on the way she apparently was
oyertaken by a fit of dependency. for
she stopped at a drug store and spent
the last quarter she had for morphine.
Captain Dawson saw the woman about
/ O'Clock in the morning and went al
once to see Proprietor Green OF the st.
Charles. He told him of the woman's
destitute condition. Remembering this,
Mr.. Green went to Mrs. Daniels room
at 10 o'clock yesterday morning, In
tending to ask her to come down 20
breakfast. There was no response 20
his knock, and. hearing heavy breath
ing inside. he pushed open the door,
which was unlocked. and went In. The
woman laid on the bed. showing every
evidence of having taken poison. DIR
Loebinger was quickly summoned and
by applying the stomach pump soor
had the y'oman out OF danger.
She sale she had not intended com
hitting suicide and had only taken the
morphine to max her sleep. but the
quantity she had taken, a full bottle OF
tablets. prompted those about her to
think she had a more desperate pur-
pore. DIR. Loebinger stated h could
not have taken h poison long before
he reached her or she could not have
been saved. The woman vas much i'm
proved last evening and requested that
h police arrest her husband IL he
could be found.
Mrs. Daniels is rather a prepossessing
woman of about "a years old. She rs
still very low spirited over her dismal
prospects but profoundly grateful that
her life was awe