The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-08-11
JEALOUS WIFE
TRIES To END
LIFE WITH ACID
Mrs. Seibert Imagined Husband
Was Too Attentive to Her
Adopted Daughter.
MIXED SOAP SUBS WITH
P0ISON-WILL LIVE
A Short Time Ago She ATT
tempted to Kill Herself With
a Safety Razor.

Believing her husband to be IN
fatuated with her adopted daughter,
Mary Knorr, Mrs Emma Seibert. Of
200 Jefferson street. attempted suicide
early today, and the fact that she
mixed soapsuds with the carbolic acid
with which she intended to end her
life alone saved her. She is now in
the City Hospital. and the physicians
there say that she will recover. This is
the second time in two weeks that she
has tried to kill herself.
Mrs. Seibert and her husband, Charles
Seibert, who is a shipping clerk en-
ployed by NJ. Gould's Son & Co. u
Hamilton street, are said to have quar-
relied last night. following a visit to the
home of her adopted daughter, who
lives in 264 Academy street, and is 2s
years old.
1t was nearly midnight before the
daughter left. A discussion between
Seibert and his wife grew into a quar-
rel, 1t is said, and Mrs. Seibert went
upstairs, her husband preparing to
spend the night on a couch in a Iv-
ing room on the ground floor.
But instead of going to bed, the
woman sat down and brooded over
what she believed to be the faithless-
ness of her husband and ingratitude of
her adopted daughter. For an hour
she sat in silence, while her husband
slept below.
Shortly after 1 o'clock. after having
decided to end her life, Mrs. Seibert
poured the contents of a bottle of acid
into a hand basin. Then for some
unexplained reason she made soap-suds
and diluted the acid. Holding the bot
tie in one hand. she lifted the basin
with the other to her lips and drank.
The effect was not instantaneous.
The mixture was so diluted that ii
did not burn And as she flung herself
ON the bed to await her end she called
20 her husband
PA. are you there"
There was no answer. and, after a
short pause, the woman cried out
again:
"Goodby, pa, I'm going to die"
She had retained the bottle in her
hand, and as she called out TO her hus-
band she flung it from her 1t went
through the open door and ratified down
the staircase.
This noise awoke Mr. Seibert. He
jumped from his couch, and, finding tie
bottle on the stairs. empty, rushed to
his wife's room. He found her stretched
unconscious on the bed.
After failing TO revive his wife.
Seibert ran out into the street, There
he found Patrolmen Edwin Bauer and
Patrick Cruit He took them back to
the house. telling them what had hap
pened on the way.
The police sent a hurry call to the
City Hospital and the woman was re-
moved there in the ambulance
The Seiberts had been married fo1
more than twenty years and Mary
Knorr had lived with them since she
was a child. Lately Mrs. Seibert
fancied she had noticed that her hus-
band paid more than ordinary atten-
tion TO the young woman. who is also
employed in Gould's factory. Two
weeks ago she attempted suicide by
cutting her wrist. But she used a
enough to be serious When the case
was reported to the police on that oc-
oasion it is said that Seibert claimed
that his wife was demented
on that occasion Mrs. Selbert tried to
kill herself because of the same fancied
wrong. The result was that Mary
Knorr left the house and went TO live
at the Academy street address.