The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-30
A Jernison Mother Com
 mits Suicide. {
DEATH ON MONROE STREET
Was Drinking With Three Care
 Free Companions.
Received Letter From sister Telling of Children in Mountain Home and Took carboIic Acid Be-
 fore Friends.

No more beer for me. I'm going to take carbolic acid" said Mrs. Lizzie Crumpton, believed to be Mrs. Ed z EnitfSerman, of Jemison, Ala, as she sat with party of associates at 106 12 Monroe Street last night. The asso- ciates laughed at the supposed jest. Forty minutes later Coroner Tice was ! examining the remains and the effects of Mrs. Crumpton, and her merry as- sociates of half hour before were stand- ing awe-struck, gazing on her lifeless form.
 Such is the tragedy that occurred in Montgomery a few minutes before Il pathos back of the going out of the woman, who died in obscurity and shame last night.
 There is the story of a woman. hap oily welded. with promising offspring in rural community. who met tempter and who was conquered.
 Then there follows the chapter of estrangement from husband. the de- parture from children. Then is re- corded life of dissipation in Mont gomery--a life on the streets illurni- mated with electricity instead of the simple country home in the mountain region of North Alabama, The last act is laid in questionable resort. There are two women and two men
 
 as apparently care free as their mas culine companions--but one deceives appearances. As she sips her beer and her voice rings out in ribald song there are thoughts of two little ones in the mountains. There are thoughts of ''Pa and Ma" waiting patiently with words of love in the mineral hills. There is a bottle of carbolic acid on fhe mantle shelf, and as the song rises in volume, the feeling of repulsion rises in the woman. The bottle on / the ms .oiih shelf presents a solution qf,lf social ylem and in a brief half z classes. d i a bed in the room of nner- rent social fthrong There is calm tnize a stre1ere are earnest policemen, t: wa Tvanteporters holding themselves Srtu4ent, sr leash, and there is cold { to Khe fsd the coroner.
 anne Three Months Ago.
 Lizzie crumpton of Jemison or K as she was known sin Mont f.s 7, came to the city from Jemison fl. She located at the Capitola t.~sef and shortly moved to a room at uO6 t-2 Monroe street. There she lived khe centre of coterie that cared naught for ties of home or maternity But the woman from the mountains did. She led the life of her companions. She sang their songs, she drank their drink.
 But letters came from the home in the hills. Those letters told of Pa and Ma and two little ones that visited their father every week and the letters had their effect
 May Nix sat at a table last night. In her bosom was a letter from her sister at Jemison. The letter bade her be of good cheer and held out promise that a reconciliation with the husband might be affected.
 As the party sat about the table drink was served. May Nix refused. She told her companions she preferred oarbolic acid. It was taken as a jest. John Morrow one of the men, saw her seize the bottle of the dealy drug. He saw her move as if to pour 1t in a glass. He saw her pour water in the glass and he laughed That's all stall He saw the girl walk to the table and doubts entered his mind, Did you really take that stuff" he asked.
 T did and Pm going to take more" With the words she poured the remain der of the contents of the bottle into the glass and started to drink. Nor row struck the glass from her hand and immediately began search Aor physician.
 The physician was slow in coming. :, Tn the meanwhile, the merry coterie of few minutes before was an excited scurrying crowd. Antidotes were ad- ministered. The woman did not suf- fer. When Dr. Gaston Greil arrived however. the bangs of death were on the woman and human aid was beyond avail.
 As she died she pleaded with one of the men in the room to caress her.
 As soon as dissolution came, the coroner was called for. He examined the woman's effects. She was ap- parently about thirty years of age, dark haired, dark eyes, tall in stature and well formed.
 The only thing to indicate her identi- ty was a letter addressed to Mrs. Lizzie Crumpton, which read:
 Letter from Home Folks.
 Dear 6is:-I will answer your let ter which was welcomed last Friday.