The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-11-17
Mrs. Florence Brown, After
Leaving Note at Police
Station, Ends Life in Pres
ence of Vim. Brown.
DID NOT INTIMATE
SHE PLANNED DEED
While Talking to Former
Husband in Front of His
Boarding House-Note to
Police Told of Plans.

Because her divorced husband re-
fused to consent to remarry her. it
is said, Mrs. Florence Brown, who re-
sided with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
William Eliason, 100 Southwest First
street, committed suicide about 6:2O
o'clock Thursday evening while talk
ing to her former husband, William
Brown, in front of his boarding house,
AZ North Fifth street Despite efforts
made on the part of several physicians
who were called quickly to save her
life, the woman died about thirty min
utes later.
About 6:10 o'clock last evening
Mrs. Brown entered police headquar-
ters and handing a note to Acting
Night Sergeant Little said that if she
did not return within a half hour to
send word to her folks that she had
gone to AZ North Fifth street. The
note said that she had decided to kill
herself. Little did not suspect any
thing wrong although the woman's ac-
tions were rather singular. When, a
short time later, Brown ran to police
headquarters and said that his former
wife had committed suicide Little op-
ened the note and notified Mr.: and
Mrs. Eliason. They arrived at the
Leonard residence before their daugh-
ter died.
Drinks Ounce Of Drug.
When Mrs. Brown called at the home
of William Leonard, AZ North Fifth
street, she requested to speak to her
former husband. Mr.. Brown was call
ed to the door and he stepped outside
and closed the front door. They talked
q few minutes and then the woman
pulled three-ounce bottle. hlled with
carbolic acid, from a pocket in her
cloak and in an instant she had tip
ped the bottle to her lips and swal
lowed at least an ounce of the poison.
Brown knocked the bottle from her
hands, portion of the acid flying on
her clothing. He Immediately ran to
police headquarters and notified Supt.
Gormon. The two went back to the
house and carried the woman, who
was sitting on the door step and still
conscious, into the house, where she
was placed on couch. Medical aid
was summoned. Before physicians ar
rived Supt. Gormon asked Mrs. Brown
several questions but she was only
able to answer by nodding her head.
After what appeared to be desper-
ate struggle she murmured: Let the
folks know and do something"
Was in Good Spirits.
William Eliason, the woman's faith
er, informed Supt. Gormon that Mrs.
Brown had left his home short time
before, apparently in good spirits, but
had said that she was going to a drug
store to procure some medicine. He
declared that she had never told him
she intended ending her life.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard state that
Mrs Brown often called for Brown and
| that she never came into the house
but would talk to him in front of the
house. Brown says that she had never
spoken Of suicide to him.
Mrs. Brown was about q years of
age, it is said. She was sister Of Mrs.
Edith Waking, whose husband was
killed on c. & o. railroad bridge
near Williamsburg, in 1910.
The funeral will be held Sunday at
! 2 O'Clock at. the Eliason home. The
Rev. H. Robert Smith of the First Bap-
tist church will of1iciate. Friends may
call at any time. The burial will be in
| the Lutheran cemetery.