The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1911-11-09
WOMAN TAKES
HER LIFE
Drinks Carbolic Acid upon
Receiving An Answer to
Note Sent Him.
DIES IN FEW MINUTES
Brother Says William Bland
Failed to Keep Promise
TO Marry Her.

sHS man she loved refused
TO marry her Anna Barker, know,
In clarksburg as Mrs. William Bland
drank two ounces of carbolic aci,
and died within few minutes i,
writing agony Saturday morning a
the PEBBLES boarding house over tn,
Suffer roofing establishment ON Yves
Pike street where she had been EN-
ployed as chambermald. The sui
eide was about IS years old and hel
home was at Rosemont.
The suicide followed the sendinG
of note by the girl to william
Bland at WEIGH and Kiggins's bowl.
ing alley where he was employed
and a verbal answer from him, say.
ing, You go back and tell her for me
that there is nothing doing" Charles
Zane, cook at the hotel, told Police
Chief Harry L. Brooks this. Kane
said he carried the note from Anna
TO Bland and delivered the verbal
answer to her.
After delivering the messages
Kane went to his room and in a few
minutes, he declared, Anna came into
his room and said:
Well, it's all on; I'm going to do
1t.
At that instant she began drinking
something from a small bottle. Kane
jumped to her side and snatched the
bottle from her hands, spllllng some
of the contents as he did SO and
burning one of his hands with the
deadly acid, but it was too late. The
young woman had drunk enough to
kill her.
Anna began yelling for Ethel Skid
more, another employee of the board
ing house with whom she had been
quite friendly, and Ether San into
the room from the kitchen. Seeing
Anna lying in terrible agony with
acid burns on her mouth and the
bottle in Kane's hand. Ethel said:
did YOU do that, Annie?'
Yes, l done it," Anna gasped.
A physician was called to the room
but Anna was beyond all medical aid
when he arrived and expired within
few minutes.
Police Chief Brooks was called TO
the boarding house by telephone and
after making an investigation of the
suicide, notified the coroner, DR.. s.
NJ. Mason, who took charge of the
case and caused the body to be taken
10 morgue.
William Barker, younger brother
Of Anna, who has been working in
Clarksburg, arrived at the boarding
house short time after her death.
He told Chief Brooks that Bland had
taken Anna to Oakland, Md, some
time ago for the purpose of marry
ing her, but that he did not do so
Bland also went TO the boarding house
and viewed the body of the girl. He
retained his composure and gave
no apparent sign of emotion. To Mrs
Mack PEBBLES, wife of the proprietor
Of the place, and to Ethel Skidmorc
be stated that he had not married the
girl.
Mrs. PEBBLES told Chief Brooks that
she had understood the girl and
Bland were married He called or
her several times and staid with he,
during the night three different time.
10 her knowledge.
In letter written Friday and ad
dressed to her mother which was
found in her room she told her mothe,
that abe was tired, did not feel vel
and was coming home Monday to res
Up. In the last part of the letter shr
aaid that Bill Bland had been treatin:
her awfully bad in the last week an,
that she had sent up town and SotteI
some carbolic acid which she wa
going 10 take If he did not treat he
better.
The deceased girl is survived b,
her parents, Mr., and Mrs. Isaac Bar
ker, of Rosemont, and two brother
and two sisters. The brothers ar
William and Dewey and the sister
are Ida and Convey, Her parents ar
rived in the city on the accommoda
ton train Saturday afternoon, wen
10 the siers-Kearns morgue and ha
the body prepared for burial. The
VIII take it home with them at az
o'clock Saturday night.
MRS. FLETCHER DIES.