Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-29
FOUND DEAD ON
Her / AR|.L|.O||R FLOOR. |. [: | ||||:|.
Mystery Surrounds the Death Of
Mrs. Mary NJ. Mills on
West Side.
ATTRIBUTED TO APoPLExY.
Doctor Says That Was the Cause
Some Peculiar Features Con-
ncctcd With the Case.

Ioklngls denied by her daughter the
request to take my shoes off because
I've heard you should not die with
Your shoes on Mrs. Mary NJ. Mills,
of 30 south Seventh West street, last
night laid down on the floor OF her
parlor to be found in her dying breath
and hour later by the same daughter.
Although medical assistance was
hurriedlyS summoned and the cause of
death attributed to apoplexS, the case
presents the peculiar phase OF either
premonition of death or self destruc-
ton. r
on several occasions. IL is said. the
8 deGedent spoke of suicide although in
& no very threatening manner. Several
II days ago. while holding in her hand
y a bottle&of strychnine, she had said In
San almost light hearted manner, Il
think I'll take this and end 1t all. In
spite OF the apparent Joking humor.
S Clara, the 16-Near-old daughter, grab
\ bed the bottle from her mothers hand.
and threwit into the yardti This same.
Z bottle, empty, however, was found
lying on the Kitchen floor after the
mother had been found in the death
throes How the bottle came to be in:
! the kitchen afterit had been thrown
into the yard, and emptyEis inexplic-s
4 able.
While apparently in good health and
4 with the only complaint Of feeling tired.
Mrs. Wills had visited her married
daughter, Mrs. Lizzie Mills yesterday
forenoon. When she left there she told
her daughter that she was going back
! 10 do some ltalsomini1g. This work
she did during the afternoon and in
3 the early evening went into the hitch
Bn. where she and her daughter, Clara,
1-oy1 u t,als 3t,ttf, fNr u
5 5isi STARTLING REQ UEsI. !.5
ss Then complaining that she fell tired,
she wen t ito the pa rlor room, telling
her daughter that she was tired. and
wanted to- rest. This was followed by
what now seems the startling state
ment and request Take my shoes off,
because I've heard you should not dia
with your shoes on. .' Nd Il fs AZ
" Clara, the daughter. laughed back
& the remark What do yoli sstant to be.
SO silly for, mother r. and left the
room. IA s n
Il A little later the daugh ter Looked iil-
tn thereon, and noticed her mother "
I Ing upon her side on the cafpeted
s floor, With her head toward tho door
I and as Mrs. Mills had been in the habit
during the summer OF such rest. the
daughter paid little attention, thinking
She was sleep. l1lla3
aSG oinE foe the front doorway the
laughter was Joined by several neigh
$bors, who sat a bout in the usual even
Ing visit, and d little later Mrs. Lizzie
Mills Joined the group, AS the latter
started TO leave she and her sister
4 Clara went into the room where the
Z mother lay to find that not only had
she changed her position completely
but that her forehead showed a bruise
as the daughters went to her, side the,
mother gasped and made motion of tine
lips as if to speak, but died almost
Within the instant. st
8 DR.. Sandberg WAS summoned, and In
turn Acting Coroner Stanley A. Hanks.
AS the doctors opinion was that death
was due to a popleSy no inquest was
deemed necessary. * "a
9lg Mr.. n. g.. Mills, the husband. is EN-
aployed gsat the Mccormick building as
sianitor and did not learn OF his loss
until he returned to his home at O.
o'clock for his supper
The funeral will be held from the
y Fifteenth ward chapel, Friday after
noon, at - o'clock.