The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-08-27
IN 4 DOCTORS OFFICE
Ethel Russell Took Is Grains
of Morphine.
WAS HER SECOND ATTEMPT
Took a Large Dose but Was
Saved.
WAS HER SECOND ATTEMPT

Mrs. Mack Russell committed suicide
yesterday afternoon. by taking morphine.
she came to a rooming house at 232 North
Main street Sunday afternoon and en-
gagged a room Yesterday afternoon about
two O'Clock q man came TO her door and
gave her a bottle Of the drug She told
another man in the room that this fell
low told her he was going to kill himself
because she was going away and she
said she took the poison away from him.
1t is though that she had the man get
the medicine for her. She left the room
about three o'clock and took the drug on
the street. She was found by a man
and taken to Dr. Seigle's Office, where
she said that she had taken poison and
asked the doctor to help her. AS she en-
tered the room she staggered ana was
about to fan, when the doctor caught her
and assisted her into chair. He admin
3stered antidotes and Dr. Borden was
called and they both worked with her,
but could do noting. They used the
stomach pump, but in all probability the
woman had taken some Of the drug be-
1ore the greater dose which she had TAX
en- Just before being taken to the doctors
Office. She had vial containing 90 grains
OF the drug and had taken just > of that.
She died at 1870 N the doctors operating
chair The body was taken to Dunbar's
undertaking rooms to await orders from
her mother as 10 the disposition Of the
remains.
The woman came. to this city several
weeks ago and had rooms at 119 North
Market street She left there Sunday
morning She was known here as Ethel
Grey, but her real name is Mrs. Ethel
Russell Her husband, Mack Russell,
works in the Ironclad livery barn at Ar
kansas City. She has a sister in this city
and came 10 their house Sunday morning
but they sent her away. Her mother
lives at Cofeyviue, Kansas. Her name
IS Ms Mary Cheatham. Another sis
ter, Mrs. May Fitzpatrick, lives at kan
Eas City.
The woman tried to commit suicide
IN her rooms at Il9 North Market street
two weeks ago. but the doctors arrived
in time to save her. It appears that she
has been in the habit of taking poison
and then regretting her action. wanted
TO live.
She was % years old, and leaves a
little boy FIVE years old She had been
married about six years. The mother of
the girl was notified, but no answer had
come up to a late hour last night
Why the girl committed the act could
not be learned. She refused to state
when the physicians asked her and none
of her friends in this city could tell. She
did not seem to be respondent nor did
she seem to have any love affairs that
bothered her. She was a fine looking
woman.
She left half finished note on The
table in her room, but it did not convey
the idea that she was going to kin her
self 1t had no address and the letter
stopped in the middle of a sentence.
A man had made arrangements to take
woman that she had no money and was
given . cents. The man who was going
10 take her to Oklahoma save her a
dollar 10 pay her room rent and also
bought her a fine telescope. She refused
to give his name. but said that he run a
hackline in Oklahoma He and the wo-
man expected TO leave at $50 Tor An
thOny.