The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-18
MRS. DANIELS
DEAD;DRANK
PARIS GREEN
Husband in Drunken Stu
por Keeps Vigil of
Death.

With her husband, the only other
occupant of the house, sitting on
the edge of the bed in almost a
drunken stupor, Mrs. Stephen Dam
iels, aged 43, 1921 Seventh avenue,
passed out of this world this morn
ing presumably a suicide. Paris
green is the poison believed to have
caused her death.
At 3 o'clock this morning a call
at the police station said that a
woman had taken poison. DIR. F. D.
Paul was summoned and on arrival
at the Daniels home found Mrs.
Daniels sitting on the side of the
bed. She said that she had swal-
lowed paris green, but later denied
this. The physician administered
an emetic. The woman recovered
and seemed to be alright, DR.. Paul
said. He stayed some time longer
and left bottle of the medicine.
At $50 o'clock this morning the
police received a report that the
woman was dead. Until 10 o'clock
the husband was alone in the house
with his dead wife. Two neighbor
women came in and finding some
warmth to the body of the woman
they called the police and said Mrs.
Daniels was still living. DR.. F. d.
Paul was Sumoned again but stated
the woman was dead.
Paris green was found Uttered
over the kitchen table, in coal box
and on the kitchen stove. There
was more of the poison sprinkled
around the floor of the bath room,
and water which had evidently
been mixed with the poison, was
spilled on the floor. Whether she
took more of the poison after DR..
Paul left the home at an early hour
this morning could not be learned.
The husband was in little condition
to answer questions.
He did say that his wife died at 8
o'clock. Mrs. Eliza Wolf, us Thir-
teenth street, said that Daniels
came over to her home at 8 o'clock
this morning and said that his wife
was dead.
Frances Lane, 1901 Fourteenth
and-a-half street, who says that she
is a niece of the dead woman, said
that Daniels called her by tele-
her that Mrs. Daniels had just died.
Domestic Differences.
From what could be learned at
the home, Mrs. Daniels had been
suffering from influenza for the past
several days for which she had been
taking intoxicants, neighbor women
said.
Motive for drinking poison was
laid to family troubles. 1t was
thought that there had been some
quarreling between the husband
and wife, but the greater trouble is
believed to be that of which the
woman had talked with DR.. Paul
early this morning. She said that
her husband, Frances Lane-who
claimed to be only a nlece-had
Quarreled with her and left home.
Mrs. Daniels had been grieving over
this.
The dead woman came to Rock
Island with her husband six years
ago from Peoria, where they were
married in 1911. The husband is
machinist by trade, but had been
working recently caring for the
furnace in the Safety building.
Born in New York.
Mrs. Daniels, who was formerly
Margaret Lynch Lane, was born
Feb. %, 1879, in New York city.
Some years ago she moved to Peo-
ria. She was married to Stephen
Daniels there March 4, 1911. Her
parents preceded her in death sew
eral years, but, according to the
widower, a sister resides some
place in the east In Rock Island
only the widower and Frances
Lane survive.