Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-03-05

suffering also from poison
Mrs. Cornell was taken to the hos
pital from her apartment at 10l1 n
street shortly after O'Clock this
morning when her husband tele-
phoned for aid after discovering her
| drinking poison. DIR. Passalaqua. at
the hospital Immediately administer
ed treatment and Mrs. Cornell is be-
lieved today to be well on the road
to recovery.
Tells of Shock.
In an interview today Mrs. Cor.
nell asserted that the poisoning was
the result of a mistake in bottles.
Two bottles were standing on the
kitchen shelf. she said. and she took
the wrong one in the belief that ii
contained medicine.
The need for the medicine was eX-
planned by her as being caused by
nervous depression OCCasiOned by the
suicide of Mrs Agnes A. Seamark. &c
wears old of 1899 Eighth street, with
whom. at one time, Mrs. Cornell had
planned a double wedding. and by
the additional unnerving shock OF
last Monday, when she found that
another friend. Miss Virginia Shar-
KEY, 20 years old. of 1880 Fa1rmont
street. was at Emergency Hospital
poisoned
1T seems SO strange" Mrs. Cornell
said TODAY. There must be a wave
Of suicides sweeping over the city.
Just think. Mrs. Seamark-l went TO
her funeral Sunday-and Miss Shar-
kev-I can see both of their faces
SO much that it unnerves me.
Return Home Late.
"Jf | talk too much about that,
though folks will think I'm gooty.
But it's quite n shock when two close
friends are taken to the hospital suf-
ferng from poison and one of them
dies. And then it's so strange that the
other is Just upstairs. too.
You see. il was this way. My hus-
band and | had just come back from
Il party with friend whose husband
does not get off from work until =
o'clock in the morning, so we had to
wait late to see him. Neither of us
works, and there was no need for us
to get up early today. So we stayed
When we got home don't know
what time that was-Mr. Cornell was
getting ready to retire and | went
into the kitchen. where it was dark.
to take drink of a .stimulant ! am
of poison cases not to want to do the
same thing that I've seen others suf-
fer so terribly for.
Tried Suicide Once.
$50 I took this bottle. which resem-
bled the other bottle that | wanted
and just then my husband came TO the
door. ! didn't exactly know what was
in the bottle when took it until after
had taken a swallow. He grabbed
me and / spilled some of the stuff
over my face. 1t wasn't in the orig
inal bottle, or l could not have made
such a mistake.
II didn't try to take my own life.
did once That was when was IL
years old. and / feared being sent
away from my home up in Middesex.
Conn. Then | jumped overheard. but
as soon as j hit the water | swan
ashore
But isn't it strange about this when
you know about Mrs. Seamark and
Nirgie Sharkey?"
The plight of the girl TODAY al
Emergency Hospital is but another
chapter in long line of misfortunes
which have befallen her She ran
away from home when she was II
wears old. she said. and during the
war studied and was graduated A
nurse from a Middlesex Conn, hos
pital. She probably was the young
est nurse that ever passed the Con.
necticut examinations.
Has Long Been Unwell.
She came to Washington FIVE wears
ago Illness and physical ailments
affected her so that since 1920 she has
had dozen operations for various
causes. She married short ! after she
came to Washington and went West
to live with a husband whose name
she would not disclose. Two children
were horn of this marriage. Both of
them died.