Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-08-28
SUICIDE Of WIFE
FOLLOWS TRAGIC
END OF HUSBAND
Mrs. Walter y. Cot Drinks Vial Of
sfrYchHine DuriBg q FIT of
Dependency.
TOLD FRIENDS OF INTENTIONS
Grief-Sfrieken Woman Places PIct-
ures of Dead Wan Neyf fo Heart
Before Dying.

DespondeHt over the tragic death
Of her husband ao was killed Ia an
accident at the Republic IRON & Steel
com pany last Saturday. Hrs Waiter
W Cont committed suicide at o.clocE
last evening al her bone 1879 Sec
ond avenue. by drinking the contents
Of an tight~ounes bottle Of strych-
nine DR. Ralph Dart was called
When Or Dart arrived he found the
woman in commissions. and iu spite
Of all he could DO she expired AT $50
after suffering for over half an hour
ia terrible agony
Mrs Colt brooded continually over
the death oil her husband. and nearly
every dag rais week. after sleep
less night. she told ner friends Of her
rash Intentions Last evening about
6 o'clock she went 10 one Of the down
town drug stores She returned show
ing comb. which she had purchased.
10 Miss Edna Enaul. who was with her
al the time Whether she purchased
the poison on this trip IS not known.
Drinks Fatal Poison.
She went into the bath room and
took bath. after which she dressed
carefully in her pretuest frock and
nut up her hair w,th great care. The
door of the bath room w8s closed and
Miss KnauJ could not see her actions
shortly afterwar6 she came ont per
feetly composed and Law down on the
bed She ther ordered Miss knau
So call Mrs Martha Dick. q close
friend of hers. who resides next door
When Mrs Dick entered the room shs
greeted her pleasantly and smiled
Mrs Dick. I've done f." she saic
composedly GIVE taken poison.
could not live without Waiter" Mrs
Dick at once became alarmed and
quickly summoned Dr Dart Up unit
the time the physician arrived sbs
talked pleasantly with her c0mpau
ions. telling them how dear her de
ceased husband had been TO her anl
that she could not bear the thought OF
parting with him
AS the footsteps OF the physician
were heard In the hall she took Il
commissions and suffered terrible ag
ony until she died. The one-eighth.
ounce vial which contained the poison
was found in the bath room.
Pictures Next to Heart
After she died the two favorite pho
tographs of her departed husband
were found in the coTsage of her waist
She had placed them next to her heart
Coroner r.. C. j. Never was notified
and the inquest viii be conducted this
evening at T O'Clock at KBox's under
taking parlors.
When interviewed this morning Mrs
Dick stated that Mrs Cotr had threat
eued a number Of times to commit
suicide. and she had kept a close watch
over her. Her brother, Henry Atkins
had tried 20 persuade her 20 come and
stay with him, without avail 1T seem
ed as though she could not bear TO live
until today. as her husband was killed
just a week age" said her brother
The accident in which her husband
met his death occurred last Saturday
at the plant of the Republic Iron d
Steel company. on Sylvan island. MIR
Cott was engineer ON a dummy en-,
CINE on fat car. which operated g
crane for unloading rails A load ni
rails weighing FIVE tons had just beer
lifted and without warning the Load
swung to the south instead of north
to the skids and she momentum caus
ed the crane to topple over Colt was
pinned beneath the boiler and horrt
bly, scalded with escaping steam be