The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-05
Kansas Bride, Falsely Accused,
Tries to Die.
Turns on Gas After Taking
Two Kinds of Drugs.
SHE DENIES DOING WRONG
Leaves Three Notes Protesting
She Is Innocent.
Husband, at Work, Gets Note
Telling of Suicide.

Denver. Col. Feb. 5.-Leaving two
notes on the bureau dresser in her
bedroom-one to her husband. anoth-
er to the public, and sending a third
one to her husband by messenger
Mrs. une Anticevich, 81 years old, at
tempted suicide in her home at 1910
Stout street Tuesday night by swallow
ing a quantity of laudanum and
| chlorofOrm and by turning on the gas.
She was Miss June Ashenfelter, 426
South Poplar avenue, Wichita, Kan,
/ before her marriage. She was married
to Matthew Anicevitch, a year ago
next May.
As soon as Matthew Anticevich, the
husband, received the note from the
messenger, he hurried home from the
Denver restaurant, where he is en-
ployed, and found the door of their
apartments locked. He did not try to
enter, but boarded a street car to the
police station where he informed Po-
lice Surgeon James that his wife had
taken poison. James went to the apart
ments in the police ambulance. The
door was broken in and Mrs. Antice-
V1ch was found in the kitchen lying on
the floor with two empty bottles be-
side her and with the gas turned on.
DR.. James found her still breathing
and soon restored her. She was left
in the care of her husband, who was
formerly fireman in the Denver de-
partment. She will recover.
Expected to Be Dead.
Following is the note she sent by the
messenger to Anticevich:
BY the time you get this message I
viii have either ended my misery or
so nearly ended it that l will never
bother. [ have taken Iaudanum turn
ed on the gas and taken chlorOform.
l wish you to bring someone else with
you and come home at once
Your wife. JUNE"
A second note read as follows:
TO whom it may concern:
Il have suffered enough. have
had nothing but surrow and trouble. |
have nothing to live for. My hus- |
band accuses me of wrong when God |
my secret thoughts. 1 do not feel that |
am doing wrong. Surely, God will |
not hold me responsible. Matt. you /
have taken my watch and chain. Take |
the rings, all but the wedding ring. |
have never forfeited the right to wear
it Let it be buried with me. Send |
my things, those which you do not
care to keep, to mamma, and don't let
her know if it can be helped how I
died, for it would Kill her. / do not
feel as if God would blame me for
something I cannot help. cannot
bear it any longer. Thank my friends
for what they have done for me. If
I have any enemies 1 forgive them.
Goodby.
Il have had more sorrow than 1 can
bear, so, end it.
I have had nothing but sorrow and
suffering until my mind is going. It is
either death or insanity. I choose death.
I cannot bear my life any longer. 1 love
my husband too well to live without him |
and he does not care for me. In his heart
he knows I am innocent so / am giving
him his freedom before our little one is
born to suffer I am going to our little
one, who is dead. I thank God he is dead
now, for he will not have to suffer as
his mother has"
She Accused Husband.
A third note lay beside the second one,
sealed addressed.
To Ny Husband, 2121 Larimer street:
My husband, by the time you get this
I will have gone to our little one and to
face God. I am innocent of what you
accuse me, as God is my witness.
swear I am as innocent our unborn
child. You have driven me to my death. |
God forgive you, dear, as l. your wronged
wife, does. I hope you may be happy |
and think OF sometimes as one
woman who loved you too well to live
as surely as If you had cut my throat If
1 have done you a wrong even in my Sc
cret thought, I hope to burn in purgatory
through all eternity. Goodby.
Your broken-hearted wife
JUNE ANTICEVICH
You took my watch and chain. Take
my rings also. All except my wedding
ring. Bury me with it on my hand where
you put it on May IS last year.
Nothing to Live For.
Send my things which you do not
want to mother and sister. And do not
let them know if it can be helped that 1
ended my own life. God forgive me, but
have nothing to live for now. / can't,
nor won't, live without you and I dort
care to live now, since you think me so
vile.
God knows I am not guilty, but, Of
course, can't prove 1t, so goodby. You
left me destitute.
This is all I can do, unless 1 did as
YOU accused me of doing, and that which
have never done.