The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1913-06-11
Mrs. w. F. Povah, Cloak
Model, Dies in Hospital,
Resisting All Efforts to
Save Her Life
REPROACHFUL NOTE
POUND IN ROOM
Refused Money to Pay Fare
Home to Babies, Mother
Takes Poison Route

Despondent over her eSfran cement
from her husband and. two babies. and
making a last appeal for ticket that
might bring her back to her home in
Vancouver, b. c.. Mrs. " f. Povah,
2S years old, drank wood alcohol in her
room at the Manx hotel Sunday night
or Monday morning and died last night
at the central emergency hospital.
Please let me come home Z read the
telegram she wrote out few days
before her suicide Il want to and /
will stay with the babies this time
please send me a ticket
In answer to Manager Kelly of the
Manx. who wired him that his wife
was dying, there came the reply from
Povah that he was waiting anxiously
but very sorry that he could not come
Apparently the cause Of her suicide
is indicated in a letter from her hus-
band in Vancouver, dated May IS. II
was found among her effects.
HUSBAND REBUkEs HER
In this letter the husband refused to
send her money and rebuked her in
strong terms for what he said was hel
neglect of her two children
A mysterious Harry Miller discovered
in some unknown manner that she was
i'll and called to see her about ESQ
o'clock Monday evening Giving this
,opa 70 rho hot teisctarIr \, a xra,t - :
her room. She held his hand for a min
ute. and in answer to his question re-
piled
Yes. | know YOU HAIRY. Yesterday
morning at IL o'clock he called again
but Mrs. Povafk BY that time was too
Ear gone to recosniza anyone and so hs
left his name writ1en on u note en-
velope on her table. Mrs. Povah never
read it.
FOUGHT AGAINST PHYSICIAN
Holding to her original determine
tion to end her life. she fought for
36 hours of agony against the min
istration of a physician and not unit
she was completely unconscious could
the reason for her Illness be deter
mined for a certainty
II am not i'll and 1 don't want you
to do anything, she cried when DR.
Means. the house physician, came to
see her, and she refused to let him see
her face, holding a pillow across it.
Here is part of the bitter and re-
proachful letter which her husband
sent her May 15
Your letter and wire received In
the latter note the use OF twenty Ave
words over the day wire-rather Law
ish and evincing an utter disregard oi
economy. ! have told you repeatedly
that / viii not send you money or any
thing that represents money away from
home. Don't allow your egotism to pre-
vail against what good sense you pos.
sess TO the extent Of ina gining for ons
moment that have any regard for you
Because | act patiently. sensible and
with fairness to you, you chose not tt
see. and there are none so blind a.
they. But you can not keep your con.
seriousness stepped in callousness tt
serve your present se1fshhess. for con.
science is the one thing in the worlo
that insists on coming to the surface
and when it does it behooves US to aci
wisely and make amends by correct
ing our ways.
MONEY REFUSED By HUSBAND
AT the present time am working
until IL o'clock at night and after In
an endeavor to get ahead before tfe
children get any older. If anything
happened to me what do you suppose
would become Of them2 / have heard
this same story good many times.
You don't seem to consider that
whatever reputation you make for
yourself will reflect on your two little
girls
Mrs. Povah left note IN pencil te
the hotel management reading
Address all in care OF my husband
w. r. Povah. care Livingstone, Garretd
& King, Bank of Ottowa building. Van.
couver wish all my personal effects
to be sent to my little girls in care oil
Mr. Povah, at above address,
Mrs. Povah was found in a semi.
conscious condition in her apartment,
In the Manx by an attache Monday
evening. DIR. S. w. Means was called
and administered antidotes. She was
suffering from stomach hemorrhages
After reviving her the physician left
his patient, returning yesterday morn.
ing to find her in a sinking condition.
She was removed to the central emer-
gency hospital. where the attendants
endeavored throughout the day to save
her life. Their Efforts were As futile
as the attempt Of friends to learn what
she swallowed. or the reason for tt.
Mrs. Hutchinson, q clairvoyant who
lives at 1907 Fillmore street, and who
goes under the name OF Madame
del SOL, called at the hospital
with her daughter Miss Maxine Hutch.
inson The former said she was an old
friend OF Mrs Povah. but could nol
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