Mexico weekly ledger., 1906-04-26
IN TERROR OF HUSBAND,
WIFE KILLS HERSELF
Drinks Acid in St. Charles Railroad
Station After Watching Trains.
Wa Not Myrtle Eall as First
Reported.

nesday night, and again on Thursday
night. On the first occasion she open
ed the baggage she carried and showed
him the bottle Of carbolic acid.
What are you going TO do with that?
be asked.
nDrink it,, was the reply.
Baily took the acid away from her.
She laughed.
II was only Joking she said. Do
you think | would be fool enough to
drink that stuff?".
Baily finally gave the bottle back to
her, being convinced she did not in
tend to drink it.
Police acting under orders from Capt.
Johnson canvassed the neighborhood
for blocks around FRANKLIN avenue and
Fourteenth street Friday. Post-D Dis
patch reporters too, make a systematic
and careful search. Nothing was dis
covered that would aid 10 the identifi-
cation Of the young woman who ended
her life In st. Charles, nor was any
woman answering her description mis-
sing from the neighborhood.
The woman was first seen in St.
Charles Wednesday afternoon. She
went to the Wabash railroad station
and asked w. NJ. Smith, the agent,
about a train to Mexico, Mo. The
next morning when Smith went on
duty again the woman was still there.
She had bought a ticket to Mexico
during the night and said that she
wanted to take the train at 10 a. m.
When the train came In she did not
board 1t, aud when Smith later asked
her about her failure to start for Mex
leo she told him her story. She said
that her name was Mrs Minnie Newell
and thai she had left her husband In
st. Louis.
HE has abused me for years., she
said, aand | could stand his treatment
no longer. l tried to get away Mon
day, but be discovered my plans and
beat me. He struck me in the mouth
and cut my lips"
In support OF this statement she
showed cuts her lips.
| am going to Mexico; from there to
Sturgeon, where / have a sister,, the
woman continued. when l left home
Wednesday / told my husband that |
was going to a grocery store on Frank
lin avenue nea my home. 1 did not go
there but took a trolly car and came
to st. Charles. saw my husband on
that train and so was afraid to board
1t.
WAS IN TERROR,
The woman seemed to be in terror
and o 0 after left the station. She
went to the Columbia Hotel, where
she ate dinner. She stayed in the ho-
tel parlor a part OF the afternoon and
told Mrs. Mary Gagner, the l~andlady,
that she was from St. Louis, and gave
her name as Mrs. Leemeyer. She
said nothing about running away from
her husband, and said that she had a
sister In Columbia.
About5 p. m. she returned TO the
station and asked Agent Smith when
a train was due from the west. He
told her that one would be due about 6
p m.
II am certain that my husband saw
me this morning. she said, land he
will be back looking for nae. II be gets
off this train / want you to protect
me. My husband is about my height,
has a stiff hip and walks with a cane.
You will easily recognize him and /
want you to keep him away"
AS train time approached the wo.
man became more terrified and finally
at her request, she was permitted to
hide in the roadmaster's office. Her
husband was not on the train and at.
ter 1t had left she came from her re-
treat.
Smith left the station at I p. m
when Night Agent Bailey arrived.
The woman was still In the station,
but 30 minutes later she walked
about so feet from the station and
drank the contents OF an ounce bottle
labeled carbolic acid She fell on the
ground with a scream and died before
a physician arrived.
The woman is apparently OF Ger
man descent, is about % years old,
weighs l49 pounds and is 5 feet and 4
inches high. She wore a brown dress
brown jacket, light shirt.aist, patent
leather shoes and black hat Her
clothing was neat, but OF cheap mat
erial. A plain gold band ring vas on
her wedding finger and she wore a
few articles Of cheap jewelry.
In a bundle that she carried was a
soiled shirtwaist and collar and a
memorandum book. In this book was
the following verse, written with a
pencil.
1t is you, you | love, and win for
ever;
You may change, but | will never.
Times may come when friends may
part,
But time viii never change my heart,
This was signed "Your niece, L. E.
B."
The book also contained the follow
ing verse.
If thou art mine, indeed,
Then | have all my heart can crave;
A present help in time OF need.
Still pine TO hear and strong love
give.
On a scrap Of paper, written In part
English and part German, was what
looked like: "Mrs Sholock Sumerd-
rock,h and number figures. There
was also the name and address, ~. NJ
Purdy, s2O S W. Boul, Rosedale,
Kan"
There was another poem, clipped
from a newspaper, To a Daifodil.n
Mrs. Ashby, who lives In St Charles
called at the Dollmeyer undertaking
rooms Friday and looked at the body.
She said that she thought the dead wo-
man was her cousin, but was not sure.
She said that the cousin was the