Show h jJ 1 LtLili I p FOR LOVE OF HER CHILD The Tragic Fate of a Colorado Lady Who Is Found Dead in Bed Evidence That Life Was Ended by a Dose of Potassium Cyanide The Sad Deed Attributed to the Loss of Child Her Only Chid The 1 oclock express from Ogden yesterday yes-terday morning brought Mr and Mrs 0 R Cameron from San Francisco en route to their home at Denver Colorado They at once registered at the Metropolitan Hotel and were assigned to room No 42 on the second floor Mrs Cameron being in decidedly poor health retired to the room to rest and suggested to her husband that he go down town to the office and have their tickets renewed He did so and wrote a letter which consumed con-sumed about one hour or more On going go-ing back to the room he FOUND HIS WIFE DEAD IN BED He ran through the hal and informed one of the help that his wife was either dying or dead and asked that a doctor b summoned at once Dr Dart was notified but on reaching the scene found the lady past all help Upon examination he discovered that she had taken cyanide of potassium the drug smelling distinctly on her lips in a tumbler and about the room The account of the ladys death was learned last evening but it was kept so very quiet that nothing more was ascertained ascer-tained until today when a DEMOCRAT reporter re-porter called at the hotel and made inquiries in-quiries of the clerk head chambermaid and others supposed to be acquainted with the sudden misfortune Nothing here could be learned and not until Dr Dart was interviewed did the true facts as given by Mr Cameron become known The bereaved husband informed the Doctor Doc-tor that some months ago his wife LOST TIE ONLY CHILD THEY EVER posSESSED POS-SESSED Her sensitive feelings gave way under the sad loss and he took her with him on an extended tour throughout California Cali-fornia and the northwest She had repeatedly re-peatedly shown signs of insanity and had made a previous unsuccessful attempt at-tempt on her life but was interrupted by an outside hand Ever since her child died she seemed to have an almost in controllable will to destroy herself but exhibited no such feeling toward others Yesterday on reaching here she appeared ap-peared more cheerful and expressed herself her-self as glad to be returning home Mrs Cameron was about 28 years old had light hair and was of medium build In the room nothing was found disarranged and She had carefully removed her clothing RETIRED TO BED AS FOR THE NIGHT She lay on her back with her arms folded as though sleeping with a single sheet spread over her No signs of a struggle with death could be perceived Wm Skewes the undertaker prepared the remains for shipment and the grief stricken husband started for his Colorado home this morning with the remains The reason assigned for keeping the shocking occurrence so quiet is that Mrs Camerons mother has feeble health and the news of her daughters tragic death might shock her beyond endurance but as all sorts of street rumors are afloat the known facts are better published than kept secret It is supposed the poison was obtained by the deceased from Mr Camerons laboratory l as he is a landscape artist and all such chemicals in his fession uses ni pro |