The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-11
Was Grieving 0verL Loss
 of Her Son. HUSBAND WAS PRESENT
 WHEN DEATH DISCOVERED Had Been Arrested and Locked Up
 for Dissrderly Conduct. Used Apron String to Choke Herself fe Death--Husbssd Called .t Prssen Twice. and oniy Discovered
 Death on Second visit.

With feet fixed against the bars of her cell in the city prison. straiDfnr with all the strength of hatred of ifs out or which her loved son had gone. Mrs Margaret Mccormick, thirty years old and the handsome wife of a furrs- ture dealer. strangled herself last ni~st With moose made of her apron strings.
 She had been carried to .h= ss.= prison at 5:30 o'clock in the affernnov, suffering with an epileptic fit which was so lasting that the inmates of tta boarding house where she resided were afraid of her.
 The exact time of the firat ~f,o~t of the desperate woman to end her iie is not known by the police At the time she was discovered her hus- Dand was present. He had been to sea ner earlier In the evening but he thought she was sleeping. as she vvaa leaning against the cell door. ana bv the faint light, afforded by a police tlash light, he could not determina that she was in an unnatural posture This visit to the cell of the unfortunate woman was shortly before 10 o'clocr the husband having called there several hours before. r', -
 Coroner ". H Tice was imnnediate,v notified of the death of the woman ana rendered verdict of suicide by s.lansuiation. The death was . tragic
 Lying Prone on Froer.
 when the door Of hAr prison room vas opened. after the string that had throttled her had been cut sha yva s round lying prone upon the floor. Most oI ner upper clothing had been torn from her body. about her skirts and ,ne bedding there were signs of vfo- fence; but her face was calm ana placid In the quietude Of sveriaafiun peace: her eyes. dark and fond, Rased unseeing but tender; her lips were parted In smile, her cheeks were smooth and pale k4
 As the yeiiow candle light ais rsa upon the poor dead Body. the eazfns. unseeing eyes changsd, but the woman was beautiful. She was not ynt rigid with death. The graceful lines Of her figure were not stiffened, her pretty face was not hardened. with the final sleep It was. save for the signs of violence about her. impossible to be- lieve that she had killed herself
 But in the corner of her cell lay a tin bucket. battered into shapAless- ness across her body lay the woven string of cloth that had been the In strument of death; upon the floor were the torn rags of garments that had but briefly before covered her warm. quick body. sa
 Mrs. MMccormick was arrsssed by Bicycle Officers Loe and Evans on a warrant charging disorderly conduct and subscribed by Peter Nintc. z0x wilkinson Street. with whom she and her husband had been boarding. When she was taken to police headquarters the woman was ravinE. 1t was said. and on this account Chief of Police Taylor and Onicers Isoe and Evans ds- tained her in a room next to the gem eral office until her husband could be brought to her.
 Talked IncoherentIy.
 While she. in wild frenzy. talked with invisible beings. the oficers watched. and finally when. more than an hour after her husband had been summoned. no help came it was deter- mined that she had best be incarce- rated, she was taken to cell.
 In the meantime. however, her hus- band. with a physician arrived In the cell the woman was given seda- tive by hypodermic, and immediately she became quiet. and IL was supposed she had fallen asleep.
 Her husband returned about o'clock and asked how she came on. When told she had raised no disturbance he said 1t was better that he should not visit her; but Police sergeant Rag land, then in charge of the headquar-  Onicer George Cantey.
 When they reached the cell Mir. Cantey turned his searchltght Into the cell but she was not visible for time. Then her husband spied her sitting close to the door. She seemed asleep and they retired without calling.
 When shortly after ii o'clock Police Sergeant Ragland and MT. Mccormick visited the cell they found the woman dead. First of all they saw the string of cloth tied in the bars of the door, Sergeant Ragland cut this. They push cd open the door and there. upon the floor of the prison, lay the body of the woman. cold in death. omcer searcy cut the fatal moose from the woman's throat.
 Immediately Coroner Tice was called and the physician who had attended the woman came with him. The physician, pr. J. M. Baker. pronounced her death resultant from strangula- ton. and the verdict of the Coroner was death by suicide,
 Woman Was Violent.
 Captain of Police Miles Smith, who had been called from supervisory duty to assume charge at headquarters. eatd that the department had previously been asked to control the woman once on Jefferson Avenue. Captain Smith said, he had been called 10 see her when she was SO violent it was De- lieved that she would have to be inear- cerated. At that time she was be- waIlinu the loss of her son who she said had run away from home. Then her husband and her friends had sue ceede In quieting her.
 At Police Headquarters last night it was said that he husband had reached the woman before she was escorted to her cell. He seemed. not to know FnK haP Tt NxFa aW- nected that she would be quieted by the narcotic administered by the physician who came with MT. Mccormick and when she ceased to rave 1t was pre- euned that she had lost consciousness.
 The Coroner's inquest was held about midnight Immediately afterwards the body was taken in charge by Coroner Tice and prepared for burial. Mrs. Mccormick gave her age as thirty unars She and her huahand have