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Show A YOUNG WIFE'S SUICIDE. Tries to (let Her Husband Hack and Then Takes I'oison. M iTfWTTTtis, 111., Aug. 2. Mrs. Hat-tie Hat-tie Brown, w ife of Frank Brown, committed com-mitted suicide last evening just before suuset. 'For several days she has been laboring under great mental excitement, excite-ment, caused by her husband abandoning abandon-ing her, and she has told her friends that she would drown herself if he did not come back to her. But he persistently persist-ently refused to have anything to do with her, and even returned her photograph photo-graph and gave orders to refuse admission admis-sion to her when she sought his presence. This condition of affairs continued until un-til yestereay, when, having again failed to secure an interview, she told her friends she would be dead before sunset. About 5 o'clock sho went to Dr. Gowan's drugstore, procured pro-cured 2.") cents worth of strychnine, -'to kill rats," as she said, signed her name tc the druggist's register as required by tho law, and, after obtaining full directions direc-tions for the use of this deadly drug, she went to the Julian hotel, where sho had been staying since her husband left her a week ago. After bathing and robing herself for the grave, she swallowed swal-lowed lifteen grains of tho poison, and then proceeded, as sho said, to the river to meet some of her relatives who were coming from Paducah. She bade a lady friend good-bye, and remarked; "1 have taken strychnine, and will bo dead in a few minutes. 1 will die on the street or alley, where all have free privilege to die." Sho had not proceeded pro-ceeded far until the poison began its work of destruction, and, suffering intense in-tense agonv. shs ran into the resilience of Daniel Hall, and endeavored to swallow swal-low another portion, lint w as prevented from doing so. She had already swallowed swal-lowed enough to kill twenty persons, and in a few moments she fell writhing upon tho lloor in the most terrible convulsions, con-vulsions, where she expired before medical assistance could reach her. Meantime sho vaiuly called for her husband, hus-band, who was near by,.aud only came after her death. The deceased was a beautiful young woman 2) years of age. Her husband is 27. They had been married about live years and had no children. The cause of the separation was llie curtain lectures giveu to the husband by llie wife because be staid from home late at night. She bitterly regretted the part she had played. The coroner's jury returned a verdict in accordance ac-cordance with the above facts. She ; will be buried today, her husband taking tak-ing charge of her fhaeral. |