The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-04-27
BRIDE OF A YEAR
TAKES HER LIFE
ILludanum and CarbOlic
Acid Used by Suicide.
BALKED SOCIAL AMBITIONS
QuarIeled With Husband Because He
Would Not Give Up
Saloon Business.

Mrs. Della NIannix, bride of less
than year, made doubly sure of self
destruction yesterday afternoon when
she drank an ounce of carbolic acid and
an equal quantity of laudanum. She
was found lying limp and lifeless across
the foot of her bed by her husband.
The drugs had been taken about $3.50
o'clock, and it was an hour later wheE
she was found. From the position OF
the body and the expression upon her
face. 1t was evident the young woman
suffered much agony in the throes of
death.
Coroner hewitt. who was informed of
the occurrence several hours after the
finding of the body, made an investiga-
tion and issued a certificate of death by
suicide.
Welded Ten Months.
Ten months ago Charles Mannix we'd
ded Della Walsh, one of the bellies of
South Washington and considered one
OF the prettiest girls in the city He
conducted a saloon at Twenty-sixth
ard X Streets northwest and lived with
his wife in the rooms above the estab-
lishment. His bushes was good and he
kept his wife In comfort.
Mrs. Mannix yearned for society. She
longed TO have more enjoyment and
pleasure than could be had in the shad-
ow OF the gas house near which she was
called upon by her husband to live.
Yesterday about lunch time the young
wife engaged in a quarrel with her hus-
band. In his statement to the Coroner
M&nnix said his wife objected to his
conducting a saloon, especially in that
section Of the city known as "Foggy
Bottom" He refused to give up the
place and she left him. going 10 her
room
BroOding over her troubles, she re-
NAMED in the house but a short Tina
She dressed herself for the street and
went TO the drug store at Twenty-fifth
Street ana Pennsylvania Avenue. where
she purchased both drugs which she
used In ending her life.
Died in Agony.
Mrs. Mannix went to the bathroom
when she returned where she poured
the carbolic acid in one tumbler and
the laudanun in another Without add
inC water to either of them. she drained
The glass containing the laudanum ana
then gulped down the acid. Walking
&c her room. she flung herself on the
bed without taking off her hat or
street clothes. Her body was found on
the bed drawn up, as though she had
suffered Undesirable anguish before
the end.
About 4:9g o'clock in the afternoon
Mr. Manuix remembered that he had
not seen his wife for several hours.
Recalling the quarrel and fearing the
sorst, he went TO her room upstairs
and made the discovery. which he re-
ported 20 the police.
A brief note was left by the young
WIFE In it she babe her husband q
last farewell. The remainder Of the
note was IN regard TO the disposition of
her possessions.
The dark dregs Of landanum wei e
found in one of the glasses in the bath
room. and beside IL stood the tumbler.
ST. ong with the odor of carbolic aclC.
Arrangements have not yet been made
for the funeral. The services will prob
ably be held from an underta king es-
tablishment where the remains were
taken after the Coroner issued a GER
tiff cate Of death from suicide,