The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-02-28
CORONER PROB|Nf ii: i:
DEATH Of WOMAN
Mrs. Hannah W. G0Odin Dies
From Effects of Oil of
TanSy.
PEND , INVESTIGATION,
BURIAL PERMIT REFUSED
A,ion Is Taken by DR.. $. G.
Paul After Viewing the
Body.

Mrs Hannah w. GoodIn OF Is Shell
1nerdine court, died Sunday morning at
80 O'Clock under circumstances which
are being investigated by Acting Coroner
Hanks. The woman is said TO have COM
mittcd suicide by taking The contents
OF one ounce bottle Of oil OF tansy. Ilcr
body was removed to the undertaking
parlorS OF :. VI. yIylor Co, tmmedi-
atcly after death. and is being held pend
ing the investigation by the coroner
B. w. Goodin told Acting Coroner
Hanks Sunday afternoon that he had
met the young woman and married her
about six months ago in Pocatelo after
shc had been divorced from former
husband. named Harding. lie said that
nc was machiuist and that lie had been
out Of work and had gone TO his home
on Saturday afternoon about $50 O'Clock.
where he found his wife ironing.
He said that he bad told his wife that
he was going TO Arizona TO sell some
mining claims he owned and that his wife
had objected 10 his going. He stated
going with his wife and that she had
steadily objected. The result of their ar
sument was that he started for town 10 TO
attend TO some business matters and told
Ills wife. ho said. that In ease she went
oIt 10 put the key under the ooormat.
When hc returned 10 the house. he said.
note on the table in the room stating
That when the husband found the note
the wife would he no more. as she un-
dcrstood that he did not care TO be a
married man. She then added in the
note 10 give her two children by her
tormcr husband Into the care OF her
father r. II. DuSdalC OF Provo, and 10
be sure and pay TO the "a ther the money
she had borrowed for he. husband from
the father.
Finds Wife Suffering,
GooJin said that he then yan into The
room. where he found his wife in bed
suffering with commissions. WhcYcupon he
ran up TO the bed and asked her what
the trouble was and told her that he was
going 10 send toI doctor She, he said, |
told him that she was all right and not
10 send for a doctor. He then said !
that hc ran out OF the house and asked
som" boys 70 telephone for doctor. Dr. !
i. H. Robinson was summoned and attcr
examining the woman called Or. = Ew-
i'm. in consultation. Both OF the ply !
sicisus worked over tho young woman un-
ui The time ol her death. Everything !
GOodin and The physicians, without avail. !
l.. II Dugdalc the father of the young |
the time of his daughters death. He |
took cusrSc Of tho note LETT by the Young |
woman aud Is said 10 have told his son
tn-Iaw that he 0GoodInl WAS responsible
for the act OF the daughter.
Aftcr the physicians bad Loft the home, |
ihc undertaken was S"nt FOR and The
body taken 60 the undertaking parIors.
The face Of the young woman showed |
Two largo contuSouS above the right eye, !
severe confusion on the bridge of the !
nose between the eyes and a brulSe on /
THO left side Of the chin. When IurS-
toned about the bruises by Acting Core
lucr Hanks Goodin Said that after hc
had gone out nf the house in search ol
"a physician. he returned and found that
his wife had fallen out of bed. He said
that she must have struck her face on
4 table in falling out Of the bed and
received the bruises in that manner.
Goodin Fails TO Appear,
When the body was taken 10 the un-
dcrtakinG p8rlors Sunday morning air
The issuing of burial permit which was
-en, TO the undertaking. parlors. Dr.. ;.
c. Paul, city health commissioner. WAS
notified OF the case by an emPloycc Of
the undertaking parlors and asked 10 in
Vostigate. After viowins the body. and
heing told that the husband would meet
him IT the parlors 5t 10 o'clock, Dr Paul |
waited tor the arrival Of the husband,
Mn" did moi come. Glr PAM then went
10 the Commercial club. where he re
coivcd u telephone message stating That
the permit FOR burial bad been issued |
aud WAS at the undertaking parlors. He
Immediately qu9slicd the permit and tclc-
pHoucJ tho coroner 10 look into tho case.
When Goodin discovered that the per
nit would not hc ISSUED. nc called upon
Dr Paul Sunday afternoon aud request
cd a removal permit that he might take
coroner was Investigating the caSc aud
that no permit oC any kind would be is
sued until the coroner had finished his |
invcStiga tions.
Questioned sunday afternoon by Act
me Coroner Hanks regarding the door
being locked and the key being found
outside The door under the mat GoodIn
said ihaC his wifc had evidently gone
into tho cellar nf the house for an
other k.y which would unlock all of the |
doors aud after firding the desired key
had placed the door koy under the mat /
outside. had then gone inside and locked |
the door from the inside aud had taken |
The poison. \ brother law. named |
Harding who had married sister OF
Mrs GooJin. told Coroner Hanks that |
there had never heen any reason for his |
sister in laws action, as lar as he know |
and that u=itlIer he nor tine father Of the |
Young woman had any suspicious regard |
ing ,zoodiu. Coroner Hanks viii con- |
;inue his Investigations today
Steve McMurrin. 4 cigar salesman cnl- |
poyed at the cigar store in the Brooks |
Arcade building. who lives In d fat near |
Shelmerdine court, is said to have stated |
that when Goo6in ran out OF the house !
Saturday afternoon and asked that a !
doctor be telephoued for. he (McMurrin) |
ATTEMPTED to enter the room which |
C;oodin ran back into. 10 assist Goodin. |
hut that he vas refused admittaucc by
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