Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1916-09-14 | Page 14 | Mother Takes Poison before Baby's Eyes

I I MOTHER TAKES POISON PI I BEfORE BABY'S EYES Despondent lent Woman Tf Repents Act After Arrival at Enter Emer- gency Hospital After smothering her hab baby with kisses es and tears in what she meant for tor fora tora a last farewell Mrs Jennie PIerce 25 years vears old oil attempted suicide by ly swallowing lowing two tablets of ot of I mercury mercur in the bathroom of or her apartments apart apart- I ments at ai W W. V South Temple st street carl early hat lul night She Sho was removed to I tho tue emergency ncy hospital at an nn carl early hour this morning he was resting rest ing InE easily with an equal chance for Cor recovery Despondency oyer over recent ill-health ill Is believed b by relatives to 10 havo have prompted her liar act Mrs Irs Pierce was waH found lying on the floor loor of or the bathroom bathroom bathroom bath bath- room by hor lur brother Richard Jardine I I Jr Lying L-Ing- across her weeping pitiful pitiful- Ij lr was wati her little lIttle- daughter Gol Goldie le 7 years ears old td II I At the emer emergency enc hospital Mrs Irs Pierce called repeatedly for her child I saying that she sho wanted to II s for foi her I bl b baby Mrs Pierces Pierce's father tather Richard Jardine engineer n at a local hotel said i his daughter frequently becam became bec de- de j de-j an and had hinted at a afew afew afew few months r ago go Sh She ho Is the wife of 0 l Edward dward Edward Pierce a o of Gar Garfield I s