The age-herald., 1899-06-20
MOLLIE WATSON
 ENDS HER LIFE Member of Hall World Swallowed Sixty
 Grains Of Morphine. TOLD HER FRIEND GOODBYE Deliberately Planned Her Death and Sent
 Boy After the Drug. SHE WAS TOLD TO LEAVE TOWN By the Authorities on Complaint of a Saloon Keepers Wife She Has
 Relatives in Montgomery,
 Who Were Notified
SHE WAS TOLD TO LEAVE TOWN

About o'clock last night Mollie Watson, a woman of the half world, swallowed sixty grains of morphine, and though phy- icians used every possible means to revive her, at last accounts she was dying
 Mollie Watson was landlady of a house of ill-repute over Richardsons saloon, in Twentieth street, between Second and Third avenues, and it is said that she had been ordered to leave town by the au- thorities. Rather than do this she took her own life. Late in the afternoon she told Dollie Manning, one of the inmates Of her house, to come and kiss her good bye, that it would be the last time for her to do so on earth. Dollie says she did not think that the woman was in earnest about the matter and did not pay much atten- tion to her. In the early part of the night sne returned to Mollie Watson's room. Mollie again told her of her intention to conmit suicide, stating that she had been told to leave town and that she would rather die than do so.
 Relatives in Ri Montgomery
 She then told Mollie to notify her rela- ltives in Montgomery of her death, and if they would not accept the body to inter it In the Potter's field. Afterwards she wrote a note, leaving all of her household effects to Dollie. This all happened before she sent for the poison. About 8. o'clock she sent a boy to drug store across the street, telling him to buy her S5 cents worth of morphine. He brought it to her in a two-ounce vial The entire contents of the bottle, about sixty grains, were emptied into a glass of water. Dolie Man ming saw her as she raised the glass to her lips, but could not reach her before she had swallowed the contents. pr. Lewis was sent for, but before he could reach the room the woman was unconscious. Drs. Wheean and Fox came in later and with the aid of a stomach pump they tried hard to revive her. Their efforts were unsue- cessful, however, and early this morning they had given up all hopes and said the woman was dying.
 A Saloonkecper's Wife
 About two weeks ago the wife of saloonkeeper in the city went to the police department and told the chief that her husband had taken up with Mollie Watson and that he was neglecting his family. She asked that the woman be arrested or sent away so that her husband could stay at home In a few days Molie was arrested for vagrancy, but Judge Feagin told her he would mol prosse the case if she would leave town She asked him if she could return in few months.
 He told her that she must not return to Birmingham at any time or she would again be arrested. The woman then went to her room and it is said she has been grieving over the matter all the week.
 The women in the house say she has not eaten anything for several days but has continually brooded over her trouble until last night when she ended her existence.
 Mollie Watson was about 30 years old and very good looking. She came from a respectable family in Montgomery and was well thought of until she started her down. ward career.