The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-21
MOTHER ATTEMPTS
TERRIBLE DEED
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and secured a bottle of carbolic acid
She also purchased a bottle of pop in
one of the saloons nearby and showed
it to the children when she arrived
home, promising to give them some in
few minutes if they would be good.
The children went into another room
to play, and while they were absent, it
is believed, the mother prepared the
deadly drink. She poured about an
ounce of acid into the emptied pop
bottle and then filled 1t with water.
She called the children from their
play, and, telling them that they might
now have some pop, began drinking
from the bottle. She drank three
fourths of the contents of the bottle,
and then, placing 1t to the lips of he1
little son, Frank, five years of age, she
began pouring it into his mouth. but he
ran from her into another room. The
mother handed the bottle to her seven
year-old daughter, and the girl imme-
diately began drinking from 1t. She
only took one Or two swallows when it
began to burn her tongue and she
dropped the bottle. The mother tried
to force her to take more, but as she
reached for the girl she began to get
dizzy from the effects of the poison
and fell against the wall.
Holding herself up, she made her
way around the room as far as her
bedroom, where she fell upon the bed
unconscious.
81 hardly knew what to do when !
saw them there" said little Mary, "but
when 1 found ma asleep and couldn't
wake her up, 1 knew something awful
had happened, and ran for the doc
tor
Motive for the Deed.
The motive first suggested for the
terrible deed was dependency over
trouble with her husband. Kovarik,
however, denies that he has had any
trouble at all with his wife for several
months. He stated last night that they
had never had any serious quarrels
He admitted drinking at times, but
claimed that his habit was not respon-
sible for his wife doing washing. "She
did it because she wanted to. She
worked for people on the hill, and liked
to meet that better class of people. She
never had to do It," he explained.
Kovarik believes that it was through
fear of death at the birth of her sixth
child that his wife tried to end her ex-
istence. For the past month my wife
has been fearful of her coming illness,
because her mother and sister both
died at the birth of their sixth child
said Kovarik. "She was very much
afraid of the ordeal, and had made
arrangements to go to the city hospi-
tai when she became i'll.
1--WE talked about her going to the
hospital last week and at that time we
remarked that the farewells must be
sad ones when she went, because
none of US would know whether she
would come back alive. l said to her
then: oh, you must livei You must.
What would 1 do with these little chill
dren? / love them and do not want to
give them away
1.-The conversation made great i'm
preston on US both, and l think she
has brooded over it great deal since.
We have had no quarrels at all for
month but have been like little chill
dren. She always kissed me each
morning when I went to work and we
were Just as happy as could be.
1.-The only reason I can see for her
doing this terrible thing is that she
was afraid she was going TO die, just
as her mother and sister had, and did
not want to leave the little children on
me as burden. She thought 1t would
be best to end her life and theirs, too.
I want to see her recover, for If did
do anything wrong 1 want to know it."
Made Careful Preparations.
It is evident that Mrs. Koyarik fully
intended committing suicide, as she
made all preparations Tor It. 0ne was
unusually affectionate in her farewells
to her husband yesterday morning, and
later when her twelye-year-old daugh-
ter, Mary, started for school The
woman surprised her by kissing her
good-by and saying number Of nice
things" to her. The little girl states
that her mother had not kissed her
good-by in years when she left for
school, and she could hardly under
stand it at the time, she says.
The mother also kept at home her
little daughter, Anna, who is in the
second grade at the Adams school,