New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-22
MORPHINE KILLS WIFE.
I'LL. SHE PLEADS FOR 1T.
Husband. COL Frederick Myers, and
CoIOrcd Maid .1TrcStcd.

Mrs Florence Myers. forty-lvo Years old, wife
Of Colonel FroGc-ick Myers Of 40 10 West Forty
sITth-st. dice last night from morphine poison
iuE She had p,curo-nncumonia. and Two doctors
were called in. During TIE day. colonel Myers
SAYS Dis wife who addicted t' the use Of NOR
mime cried So bitterly for some ~ the drug t'at
lie gave lr 10 her. Anna Simmons, Cd colored mfld,
saws she also gave the woman some of the tablets
she asked for. rot knowing they were poisonous.
The colonel and the woman were locked up under
s,-srfof4- b, tbe West Fortv-soventh-st. police
The woman was the fifth wife of colonel Myers
lEo broke down on l.i7E told he wTs under arrest
The lIverses lived in "A boarding house In West
F~7rr,-efztI-st kept 10y Mrs. Katherine l'oe Yes
+a-dav morning colonel Myers called tn lr. J.
-bI-1ay. Spraaur. az No ls- West Forty -sNth-s'-
l4a found Mrs Myers suffering from pieuro-pr
r1orfa ITe prescribed for her When be called IN
the evening DE found tho woman suffering rom
morphine poisoning lie Immediately called ln i'E-
7 Hilton Waterman. OF 10. 7" West FIFTY -hrsi-si
--r.v r1r-Il get no statement from the pa''ent on
account 81 her condition. oxygen was NSea IN
vain The coroner was summoned. ana he sent
word % the police. At 1852 O'Clock Mrs Myers
died.
A. che station colonel Myers told Sergeant Nc
Cam pa had given his wife morphine. He said
She had been used 20 the drug and had once been
under treatment for ITS use- She suffered intense
main from her aIneut yesterday ana soon ai''r
The doctor went away she begged him 20 give her
some of the drug He gave her two tablets. The
,,bysfclars said the tablets were quarter grain
each Their again. between and o'clock she
was stm in pain and begged for more He Thought
trs main ought 90 De alieyiatee and gave her Two
more tablets or half grain. Then. ~ about D
o'clock De said the pain again SD great tiat ii
mercy he gave his wife TWO more tablets.
81 only did ft as an act of mercy; she was sIfIer-
f-g terribly said the colonel
Then 10 his own astorishment. and that of every
one including the physicians. the colored woman
confessed The police say. that she had given the
woman six tablets She said that she had taken
care of Mrs Myers while her husband was OUT OF
-l,e room About noon the maid said tho woman
begged for some OF the tablets and she gave thein
10 her without knowing what they We're.
bort 3 or O'Clock Mrs Myers again asked ior
tablets ana the maid gave her two more Al5II Z (,
O'Clock she gave her two alaH- li.9 -, IN fl,-
lad half grain OF morphine at9Gi go ,-i
according u the statements oi ''''i'' N'se'S anu
the maid. 4.,- 90 .-,,r-,,,iro tab
lets ir tho Myers apartment 91s ''it,'''i'- -
-..r,i..- III sT.t~-or-gfaiu tablets Of morphine
Colonel Myers gave his age as seventy one E.ti
T9a said he "a utchan.cti ,I-iii''ll5 - So
~, lC--r r4rlol him 90 the station fald ihal Va =
NFrare was the ffth wife OF tol"nel ed-r ri.
said the colouel served with 'el'ttI p. "a -
Tae- az frve-ro- He asked the sergeant Z" ser
a message Tor him. and when asked TO "i1'''' ''
TO Charles + Murphy. He used TO work for
lls,r,er Myers said his wife had contracted the
,-za ~ morn hfne through uncle. VINO hin '1li
mitted suicide with il some iiFe molsS s s south
The friend said Mrs Myers clin.- l,i- - -r,,-
ra-rf1. Her mother lived IN " tSIllile toii
Tat is tre birthday OF Colonel Myers, and ne nau @
arranged far birthday part 5d had hf invited them
81 ~ b-,,,ss f5r "A social gathering during the Gay.
TIa bas "a fourth daughter in Paris