Arizona republican., 1898-02-28
WENT THE MORPHINE WAY
Suicide of Mrs. J. w. Fayman
 Yesterday Morning
The Sad Ending of a Once Brilliant woman the Latter Part of Whose Life was Spent in Rapid'y Going Down Hill


 Down Hill
 !; Mrs. J. w. Fayman died at the St. Lawrence yesterday morning, pre- sumably of morphine poisoning. The drug was self-administered in fit of intoxication. The dead woman was better known in Phoenix as Pauline" and for three months had been a singer and piano player at the An heuser. She had for a long time been drinking to excess and on several oc- casions physicians had been called to resuscitate her from the stupCr caused by alcohol.
 | She left the saloon where she was employed soon after midnight and in company with another woman visited other saloons. At 1 o'clock in the morning she was playing roulette in the Palace. When she left the table she nodded to her friends. She had ceased smiling and there was curious look in her eyes which was recalled by those who saw it when they learned a little later that she had taken poison.
 
 before her she walked out of the rear door and probably directly to her room. She had threatened to kill herself earlier in the night and had made the same threat so often before that no attention was raid to it. She was be- lieved, though, to be of a suicidal ten dency, for not long ago in a period of depression she tried to shoot her self, but was prevented by a bystander from reaching a revolver which lay in sight.
 A little after 2 o'clock she went into the room of Charles Mckenzie, also lodger at the St. Lawrence. She told him she was going to die and swal lowed two large doses of a white pow der If it was morphine, either would have been deadly. A physician was summoned as soon as possible. When he arrived there was no contraction of the pupil of the eye, the pulse was only little faster than normal and respiration was normal. She re- jected the doctors attempt to assist her and ordered him away. He ad- ministered by hypodermic injection a counteracting drug, and went away.
 No great alarm was felt and the half dozen men and one woman who had gathered in the woman's room left At 1 o'clock yesterday a lodger entered her room and found her dead. She lay on her right side. The face had turned black, showing that death might have occurred five or six hours before.
 Justice Johnstone having been noti- fed, impaneled a coroner's jury and viewed the body, after which the in- quest was adjourned until 10 o'clock this morning. The apartments of the dead woman consist of two small rooms. In one was an open piano and dresser, the latter Uttered with photographs of friends and poll tickets, for Pauline" was also a gam bier in small way. Wrapped in one policy ticket was a quantity of nor phine, enough for a deadly dose, but which Mckenzie said was not one fourth of either of the doses he had seen the woman take. There was wine glass two-thirds filled with a liquid which had a green tinge. It was suggested that it might be di- lution of cyanide of potassium. It was almost tasteless and was probably water, the color having been given it by a trace of absinthe.
 The body was removed to the rooms of the Phoenix Undertaking company It had not been decided last night whether or not post mortem exami- nation would be made. It may be necessary, though, to make one, for the woman had long had serious heart trouble and nearly died from it a couple of months ago.
 Pauline" had seen better days. C Georgia and was we'll educated. She was about 40 years old. Several years ago she married J. W. Fayman, an employe of the Southern Pacific at Los Angeles, and was separated from him two years ago while living at Truckee where he was agent for the company The cause of separation was an esca- pade in which a prominent Nevada capitalist figured. The dead woman was a most accomplished musician and while living at Los Angeles she was the best known and most skillful teacher of music in the city. After her separation from her husband she resided for some time with her brother, James S. Fielder, well known lawyer of Silver City, N. M. Less than a year ago she went from Silver City to Tue son and for the first time prostituted her musical accomplishments by en- gazing in saloon singing.
 She was a good hearted woman Her most glaring fault was her indulgence 1 in strong drink, which she probably regarded as the only refuge this side of the grave from unhappy memories
 HE LIFTS A HORSE.