The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-04-14
FATHER BLAMES
 WOMAN FOR HIS
 SONS SUICIDE
John Carlson IT,, in Dying State ment Says That Smith W0- man Gave Him BichlOride
She Took Some Too, But Was Saved by the Ambulance Corps

Declaring that his son had made 2
 dying statement to him, that the wo- l man with whom he was found in tht | had given him the poison which was
 causing his death, John Carlson, o1 | Saugatuck, laid before the police today ! the facts concerning the supposed sui eide of his son, John Carlson, Jr. aged 19, who died at St. Vincent's hos l pital last night.
 l Carlson and a young woman who | gave her name as Lillian Smith, O1 | 428 Connecticut avenue, took bichloride ! of mercury while occupying a room 1T l the Hotel Royal in State street, or | the night of April 4. The woman lost other people in the hotel, who sum- | moned the ambulance corps.
 | Prompt work saved the young wo- mans life and she was discharged from the hospital on the following l morning. But Carlson had taken a heavy dose of the poison, and the doctors were unable to cope with it
 Carlson passed away last night after | making a statement to his father, in l which he laid the blame upon the wo- man.
 According to the story told by the young man, he came to this city from Saugatuck about the first of April He had a little money. and fell in with the Smith woman, who is a di- vorcee.
 Carlson said that they went on a carouse that lasted several days, un- til all their money was gone. Then in a fit of drunken remorse. accord ing to the statement of the young
 man on his deathbed, the woman sug-
 gested that they commit suicide to, gether, and produced the bichloride Of ! mercury tablets, which she carried with her.
 The Smith woman took four of them, and Carlson ten. When the ambu- lance corps came, Carlson was un- conscious but his companion was
 awake and screaming.
 The elder Carlson, who is grief stricken at the loss of his son, laid the facts before the authorities today, thinking that the Smith woman should
 be apprehended. The police authori- ties cannot see their way clear to take any action According to the statement obtained from young Carl son a week ago by Investigator Mor- rissey of the Charities department, il was simply a double suicidal attempt At that time the young man did not attempt to place all the blame upon the woman.
 Carlson's body will be taken to Sau- gatuck by his father.
 Lillian Smith, the woman in the case. voluntarily appeared at Police headquarters this afternoon and told her story. She had known young Carlson for several months, havins met him at a dance at Eagles hall They had met quite often since. On the evening of April 4, Carlson, she says, asked her to marry him. She refused, as she was an older woman and because she knew his parents would object. That evening they went to the Royal Hotel. He left the room, and when he returned he told her that he had taken poison, in- tending to end his life. He requested her to take a. drink of water. The water tasting bitter. she refused. Miss Smith protests that she did not per
 suade young Carlson to end his life Medical Examiner F. B. Downs has
 issued a death certificate due to pois- on. Miss Smith is not held by the authorities.