Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-08-15
SUICIDE AT THE BLUFFS.
Sirs. Thomas, OF Moorchsad, Iowa
browns Herself IN Aiisso uri River.

Il Az si0s AOAudbs. Oh MOOEcn00O, iowa,
browns Hsrsclfin Missouri River.
Council Bluffs, Aug. 15.-A note scrib-
bled in pencil attached to a bundle Of
/ clothing found Monday morning near
the river bank close to the Union Pa
lctfic bridge causes suspicion that a
Mrs. Thomas, who came to this city a
4 few days ago from Moorhead, Iowa, in
search of her husband, had taken her
life and that Of her -year-old daughter
Hby throwing herself into the. Missouri
4 The bundle OF clothing was found by
is. w. Holmes. of So Fourteenth ave-
nue., on the bank of the river near the
Hurion Pacific dump at the east end of
5the bridge and was Immediately turned
lover by him to the police. Attached to
1.-The bundle was an old black pocket
IDook in which was the note written in
pencil, a slip of paper that bore the
name of Mrs. Sarah Golfer or Coffey,
Canton, Mo-, and an envelope addressed
Ito Mrs. Kate Thomas and bearing the
tlpostmark Of Pisgah, Iowa, and dated
June 4, 1900. The penciled note read as
follows:
II am tired of living. j am left des-
Htitute and homeless and whisky was the
lcause. ! have neither home. friends
Hnor money and am not a BILE TO work, so
thought might as Well end my mis-
Hery. ! can not take care of my child
lin my condition and won't beg, and
tam not able to Work. / have no rela-
:tiyes. and my husband deserted me and
H,my child at Moorhead. Iowa, on the
18th of June. am discouraged and
jhave nothing to live for.
MRS. MATT THONIAS.''
T. ~, ~, o ..I.. -
coarse cotton wrapper, a woman's blue
Isunbonnet with pink lining, a child's
lsunbonnet, small skirt and other small
garments, all very much the worse for
wear.
One day toward the latter part OF las
week a woman who gave her name as
Mrs. Thomas and said she had come
there from Missouri Valley called at the
police station and made inquiries about
Iher husband, whom she said was a
anied by little girl about years old
She told Officer White that her husband
had deserted her and her child and that
Hshe believed he was either in this city
Tor South Omaha. She said she was
destitute and that the last of her money
had been spent in buying her ticket to
4 this city.
The police made Inquiries and learned
that a man answering the description
LOT the woman's husb band had applien
! for work a few days before TO John
Larson, painter on Bryant street.
Larson was not in need of any more
men and so told the man supposed to-
Ihave been Thomas. Mrs. Thomas APP
Hpeared 10 be much depressed and dis
icouraged and to add to her troubles
Twas in delicate condition. She asked
1.-THE police for financial assistance and
WAS referred by them to the supervisor
lof the poor.
A Chief Albro on reading the note ex-
lpresseds his opinion that the woman.
driven to desperation by the desertion
lof her husband and her Destitute con-
EDITION, had decided to end all her trou-
bles in this world by drowning her
lself and daughter in the Missouri.
,IsH0THlMsELF WITH REVOLVER.
IJacob w. Fuchlin. OF Keokuk, Conn
4 mits suicide From an Unknown
& CnNse. 81,
l Kepkuk. Aug. Is. - Jacob w. Fuehlen,
A son- in-law of William Ewers, OF this
A city. went to the bathroom OF his home
land entered the bath tub. when he drew
ai 3S.calibre revolver placed the muscle
Of the wes pom to his mouth and dred
l the ball entered the root Of the mouth.