Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-07-11
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE
Dot Bryant Swallows Carbolic Acid
in Park Hotel.
DR.. WILLIAMS SAVES HER LIFE
BY the Liberal Use of Stomach Pump
Poison Is Taken From Her = At.
tempt Was the Result of Lovers
Quarrel.
From Tuesdays Daily.l

From Tuesdays Dailyl
AS result OF lovers quarrel about
II O'Clock last night, Miss Dot Bryant,
a young woman who has been boarding
at the Park Hotel for about two weeks,
drank two or three swallows of car
Dollc acid in an attempt to commit
suicide. G. G. Ranslead, the man with
whom she had quarreled and who was
IN the room with her grasp
ed the vial which contained
the poison and dashed it to
the floor. AS the acid was swept by
the Woman's face her lips and cheek
caught a part of it and they were bad
~ burned. DR.. Williams was at once
telephoned for and responded within
ten minutes and after working desper.
ately for some time on the young wo.
man he counteracted the effect of the
poison, and today he believes she is
out of danger and will recover. She
is badly burned on the face and inside
her mouth, and her stomach is also
burned.
Life Will Be Saved.
The girl is still at the Park Hotel,
but DR.. Williams is contemplating
sending her to the Ottumwa hospital
which will probably be done before
tonight. DIR. Williams gives as his
opinion that the girls life will be saw
ed although she had narrow escape.
G. c. Ranslead and Miss Dot Bry.
ant are the names inscribed upon the
register at the Park hotel, Saturday
evening, June %. They gave their
home as Des Moines, and asked for
separate rooms. They were accom-.
LOT nI of
quietly the two went to work. They
were selling fruit trees and appar.
emily were doing good business.
They have remained at the hotel since
and have apparently gotten on swim.
mingly Business was apparently good
with them and they appeared to have
plenty of money.
Couple Quarrel.
Last night, however, the couple quar-
relied. Ranslead had gone into the
girls room, and the talking was kept
up until nearly midnight. Finally in
her desperation she siezed a bottle of
full strength carbolic acid, which was
standing on the table and which she
had been using. and holding it to her
mouth told Ranslead she was going to
drink it.
ne nought IL Joke.
The man was not frightened at first
and thought the girl was only joking.
He made no effort to take the poison
from her until she raised it to her
mouth and begun to swallow.
She had taken but two or three swal.
lows of the deadly stuff when the
man rushed across the room and dash
ed it to the floor. What she had taken
however had done it's work and for a
time it looked as though the girl would
die. Ranslead reused the people in
the hotel and while call was sent
for DR.. Williams, the remainder of
the people tried to get the girl to
take an emetic She absolutely re-
fused at first and it was not until af-
ter DR.. Williams had responded and
had taken charge of the case that he
was successful in getting medicine
into her. By the liberal use of sto,
mach pump all the poison was taken
from her, and soon she began resting
easier. Today her condition is as fav.
orable as possible under the circum>
stances and she will probably recover.
Who the couple are, or where they
came from has not been learned. The
girl appears to belong to very re-
spectacle family and appears to be
very nice woman. Since she has been
here she has worked hard every day
and was very successful in her occu-
patton