The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-28
WIFE OF ONE MAN COMMITS SUI
eide FOR LOVE OF
ANOTHER
A QUEER TANGLE HAS BAD END
Dead Woman Had EIOped With Man
She Loved, but After Six Months
Both Returned to Their
Lawful SP0uSeS.
POLICE STOPPED DIVORCE PLAN


| MARION, Ind, Jan. 27.-The taking OF
poison and subsequent death of Mrs.
Frank White brings out a strange story
not only of the love of one woman for
the husband of another, but Of the ap-
parent Indifference of the wife of the
latter as to her husbands actions.
| Saturday morning James B. Woods,
who is an engineer in an oil pumping
station, was called to the telephone, and
this was the message that he received.
"Good-by, dearest; the next time you
| see me you will look on my dead body. l
can't live without you, Jim, and so I'm
| going to end 1t all. 1 shall kill myself
just as near your house as can
| The woman who uttered the loving but
| despairing words was Mrs. Frank White,
wife of a lifelong acquaintance of
| Woods. Three hours later Mrs White
| took morphine and carbolic acid in the
! engine room where Woods was employed
! When she was found she was taken to
| the home Of Woods, a short distance
i away, and there she died at 10 o'clock
| Saturday night, and from there she will
| be buried.
Queer Matri IN OniaI TangIe.
! The suicide of Mrs. White is the clos
| ing chapter of one of the most peculiar
matrimonial tangles on record. 1t fol-
| lows the Intervention Of the Marion DO
| lice, who stepped in to prevent the trans
| fer of Mrs. White to Woods. All the
| parties to the proposed deal, it is said.
| were satisfied except White, and he was
| making the best of the matter. having
| proposed the deal as the best manner of
| untanSling tie domestic snarl into which
| the love Of Mrs. White and Woods had
| plunged the two families
| cto
While the families lived on neighboring
! farms near Lima, Ohio. Woods states
| that his wife would frequently order him
| off the farm. Then he would turn to
Mrs. White, the handsome wife of his
| friend. for consolation. Mrs White at
/ that time was about twenty-one years
old, while Woods was ten years her
senior. Finally the Woods moved TO
| Marion, where Woods secured employ
ment as a pumper in the oil field. Short
| ly after the removal to this CITY Of
! Woods and his family, Mrs. White began
| mportuning her husband to move to
| Marion, which he finally did.
EIOped for Six Months.
The friendship between Mrs. White and
| Woods was resumed, and about two wears
ago the couple eloped. They remained
/ away about six months when thew re-
| turned, and each resumed the former
| famlly relations. The friendship between
| the two was not broken off, and Mrs.
! Woods seemed to think 1t was all right,
| White, however, tried in vain to stop it.
At last in the endeavor, he says, to
| straighten out the tangle, he offered 10
secure a divorce from Mrs. White. Woods
to secure a divorce from his wife, and
| then Woods and Mrs. White were to be
married. The police got wind of the af-
| fair and took prompt steps to stop the
alleged deal. Woods and Mrs. White were
| notified that their relations must cease,
| and that they would be prosecuted on
| criminal charges if the deal was carried
| out.
| Mrs. White went to Woods home
| Thursday night and remained all night.
She seemed much depressed over the
turn affairs had taken, and several times
| threatened to take her life
| After spending the night at the Woods
| home, Mrs. White returned to her home
Here she secured vial Of morphine and
q bottle of carboltc acid; then she sent
the telephone message,
Mrs. White was about TWENTY-FIVE
years of age, and had two small chit
dren. Both Woods and White are EN-.
lployed In TIE oil field.