The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-11-10
WOMAN TAKES
FATAL DOSE.
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Mrs. Myrtle Myers Dies by
Her Own Hand ;,,rn
t9unT-7- sesylu7
DOMESTIC TROUBLES
Believed to be Responsible
for the Act.
Abdominal Organs will will Ex-
amined Chemically to Derermine
the Nature of the Poison.

''1f 1t wasn't for my childreh
I'd end 1t all" said Mrs Myrtle
Myers, aged thirty, CT Adelaide, on
several occasions but Monday not
even the baby fingers could longer
stay the force which lured her or
to suicide and she lies dead by
her own hand at the home of her
mother, Mrs, Christian Fites, o.
that village.
About seven o'clock last evening.
Mrs Myers began acting strangely
wandering around the house az
though in search of something.
Upon being questioned by her moth
er she replied that she was hunting
her pockethook. She picked it up
from a stand and walked into M
adjoining room. The mother, satir-
fled that all was not as It should
be, hurried from the house and
watched the movements of her
daughter through a window. Thev
were of such nature as to cause
her to hurry in the house and
call the girl
"lIavent you taken something?"
cried the now frantic mother.
81 have" calmly replied Nr"s
Myers walking to the stove and
tIhrcwing upon the fire an envelope
which she had in her hands.
Almost Immediately she was seiz-
ed with violent convusions, ami
all efforts of the physician to coun-
teract the poison proved futile, the
patient dying an hour later.
The envelope which was later
rescued from the flames was found
to be from a jewelers. firm. The
purchaser had evidently removed
the fatal dose from it's original
package and placed It In one that
would net arouse suspicion in case
it should be seen
Friends of the dead woman say
she has been greatly depressed OF
late because of domestis worry
Aborh one year ago, her husband
suddenly deserted her, without as
signing reason for so doing He
took with him their son, leaving
the baby lyirl TO the care Of the
mother. Because Cf her unsettled
condition, Mrs. Myers left the chill
with sister, near Cardington, but
recently she h9s been prevailed
upon to place the child in home
the sitter being no longer able to
care for her. So insigtentlv did this
rrey uDon the mind of the mother
that she could no longer endure
tho Thought of being deprived Of
he" babe and she sought relief In
do"rN The fact that the whereabouts
OF her former husband s unknown
aud tho seDeration from her son
was also source OF constant worry
Mrs. Myers srent Sunday at thu
home of neghbor, Frank Miller
and at that time complained of a
violent headache, ]. s. Miller, the
son of the house who has been at
tentive to Mrs Myers, prevailed
upcn her to take some tablets for
the relief OF the pain. She consented
and left in considerably better splr-
its, thoUigh she ate nothing Sun.
day or Monday. Just before death
she expressed to Mr. Miller, who
had been summoned to the bedside
deep regret for her act of self-de
atrrctic0.
Late Monday evening Drs. p. T..
Brady and S. H. Britton of Marion,
and DIR. Lewis Britton of Caledonia
held a pnst-mortem examination, bur
were unable TO determine the exact
nature of the drug used by Mrs.
Myers. Coroner Brady ordered the
stomach sent to Columbus for chem
teal analvsis this morning.
e Dr. s. Fl, Britton states thai
the condition of the stomach and the
syuntcms which Immediately de-
velcued from the dose point To the
/ fact that the victim had purchase
quantity of stryehniue as c"'l =
cS last resort and had recourse to
II Monday evening,
Furo~ql services will be held II
me CNrie4ian Elites nome Wednes
dav at two o'clock, Rev Grimm OF
Edison. officiating. Burial will be
made in Adelaide cemetery,
New York state Greetings and