Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-03-04
Funeral Services Sunday.

in charge of Company G, and the Fiji
ty-fourth regiment band.
The Tremaine Suicide.
March Emma, you have drove
me to he'll. You will remember this
as long as you live. l hope that you
won't get no rest night or day as you
have drove me to do what have done.
"Your loving husband,
&c. l.. Tremaine."
The above farewell note was found
in the coat pocket of c. L. Tremaine
who committed suicide last night by
drinking carbolic acid after failing in
an attempt to effect a reconciliation
with his wife who had left him and
sued for a divorce. The body was
found this morning about Z o'clock at
the rear of his home, 421 East Mclean
street, by Mrs. Tremaine, who had
passed the night at the home Of rel.
alive.
Mrs. Tremaine left her husband
about a week ago and recently filed an
inform alton before Justice NJ. L. Kirk
charging him with threatening to kill
her and her young daughter The case
was dismissed and yesterday afternoon
she filed a petition with the clerk of
| the district court asking for divorce.
After the separation Mr.. Tremaine
went to Hynes to visit relatives and
Mrs. Tremaine aud her 7-year-old
daughter, afraid to remain at home.
have been staying at the home Of
her sister.
Asked for Reconciliation.
Wednesday morning Mr.. Tremaine
enlisted the aid OF Rev. John Hastte,
pastor of the South Ottumwa Baptist
church, and met Mrs. Tremaine at
the office of her attorney, B. w. Scott
He pleaded hard for reconciliation,
promising to lead an honest life
and to treat her with the greatest con,
sideration if she would forgive him and
live with him again. Mrs. Tremaine
said that she would not do this as
she was afraid to go back to him after
he had attempted the life of herself
and daughter.
Sensational Charges.
In the petition for divorce Mrs. Ire
} maine made charges Of the most sen
J sational nature against her husband
3
herself and daughter to go to bed ant
0 house on fire. The smell of the smoke
woke them up and he then fought t
5 keep them in the room but the
screams of the woman and child
2 alarmed him and brought the neigh
: bors. On another occasion, the petit
G ton states, he again attempted thei
n lN np oh al
6 they had gone to sleep, but agail
4 escaped
a Find Husbands Body.
Mrs Tremaine stated to Courie
n representative this morning, that yes
= terday she and her daughter were a
: their home on East Mclean stree
= and had decided to remain their dul
s ing the night After supper. however
the little girl became frightened an
E. they went to the home of Mrs. Trt
If names sister, Mrs. Minerva McDa1
r. iels, on North Wapello street. The
n returned to the house this mornin
il about o'clock, coming in at the rea
Is of the lot, and saw the body of he
ID husband lying just outside the bac
h. door, She ran screaming to a neigl
n boris, Mrs. Frank Fogleson, and D
re F. w. Mills was called.
Coroner Mills, upon his arriva
found two ounce bottle Of carbol
le acid, almost empty, lying beside til
in body. The remains were taken to til
Of undertaking parlors of Mr.. and Mr.
F. F. l.. Daggett, on West Second stree
Of where several notes, indicating tn,
al he had been contemplating suicide fl
lie several days if his efforts at reco
as Citation failed, were found in the CO.
i'll pocket of the dead man In his peck
and Mrs Tremaine, taken on the
ks wedding day, and clipping from tt
of Courier giving an account of the {
rs yesterday.
W. A coroners inquest will be held tn
as evening at the Office of DR.. Mills.
Promises to Be True.
T. One of the letters to his wife, w
dated at Hynes, February 81, and hi
en- never been mailed. 1t is thought tn
as it was written shortly before he W
IN arrested and brought back to OttumN
& to answer to the charges PREFER
against him by his wife before JUST
\ ~.
"Hynes, Iowa, Feb. 81
My dear wife:-I will solemn
,w- take oath before God and witness
eu- that will live an honest and truth
live and live for God and for sou
at l am sorry for what occurred betwe
ses you and nue.. God knows that l WE
ext to compromise with you, and G
&C. knows that I love you with all
heart and soul. You know what
will have told you time after another and
ear we cannot compromise I am sure tt
is the way it will end as cannot sta
to it any longer.
witnesses to solemn oath, in
,es. year IF our Lord 190...'
Married Sept. 80, 1908.
lick Mr.. and Mrs. Tremaine were n
ried at the court house in this {
will September 80, 1908. The wedding '
rch a public one, the groom, through
nth newspapers, inviting all who wisl
arV- ~ do CO III attend Mr. TraY,1a