Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-17

The hint of an unSclved mystery III
the death of Mrs. Mar garet Tittemore
Parker. at Omro, Wis. last week, is
contained in articles printed in chi
cago newspa pers. That Mrs. Parker
had ended her own life became cur
rent in ru1nors directly following the
death. but if such was the case no con-
elusive evidence has been produced to
substantiate the theory.
DR.. J. H. Low, of Chicago, who had
been treating Mrs. Parker for ner-
vous disorder, and had prescribed YER
onal as a sleeping potion, declared that
he did not think Mrs. Parker could
have used the drug to end her life. AL
least. the use of this drug would nave
been very unusual. DR.. Low claimed,
owing to the large quantity 1t would
have required to have produced death
That Mrs. Parkers domestic life had
been unhappy. and that she and her
husband had entered into an agree
ment TO live apart for two years. is ad-
mitted by j. N Tittemore. former
traffic manager of the Iowa Central
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Newspaper Tells Of Case.
The Chicago Examiner tells of the
mysterious circumstances surrounding
Mrs. Parker.s death as follows:
ut would take an ounce or two OF
veronal to kill person. said Dr.. Jo-
seph H. Low of 3017 Indiana avenue
yesterday, when told that one Of his
patients. Mrs. Margaret Ti:temore Par
ker, wife Of Charles NJ. Parker, head
of the American Radiator Company,
had killed herself with drug which he
had prescribed.
:" If Mrs. Parker killed herself I can
not think that she used veronal. In
my medical experience I have never
heard of a person committing suicide
with veronal.
Mrs. Parker was under my care for
nervous trouble and her heart was also
weak. She used veropal as sleeping
potion. Ten or twelve grains make
normal DOSE"
Mystery in Separation.
LAS to the causes which brought
Mrs. Parker to the state of mind and
body which caused her death and sent
her husband to the east, all her
friends declare that they know little
or nothing. For several months. before
Mrs. Parker and her husband sepa-
rated and she went to the home Of her
mother at Omro, Wis. she had been
the patient Of DR.. Norval H. Pierce.
About the time that Mrs. Parker
left for Omro, DR.. Pierce and his wife
left the city. The doctor merely said
that he was going away for a long
rest.
DR. w. II. Theobald, who shares the
offices Of DR.. Pierce in the Marshall
Field building, said that he knew Mrs.
Parker merely as patient OF DR..
Pierce
"He was treating her for some affec-
ton Of the nose said DR.. Theobald
last night, but l never knew the
exact nature Of 1t
DR.. Pierce left suddenly and did not
tell me where he was going-just said
he was going to take long rest. He
left about the first Of the year
y. n. Tittemore. brother Of Mrs.
Parker. arrived in Chicago yesterday.
and is at the Grand Pacific Hotel. He
is himself confined to bed with a ner-
vous heart. but spoke very freely Of
his sister. now dead.
trouble between my sister and Mr..
Parker he said. She carried her
griefs herself, and especially tried to
hide everything from our mother, who
is "a years old. and unable to stand
worry. ~
100 Sacred to Mention"
She talked a little to me in private
when we met in holiday week back at
the old farm. You know I'm the bache-
Tor brother who has cared for her
since she was a baby, AMI she always
came to me. She said a few things
which are too sacred for me to men
ton to another.
But if Mr.. Parker ever had any
accusation to make against her l do
not know it. I do not believe he did.
They disagreed. and they had signed
an agreement to live apart for two
years. When I asked her more parti-
cularly about 1t she said, Brother, l
can't talk about it any more just now
So l know no more"