| Show DED DEAD WOMANS I HUSBAND FREED Investigation by Police and Coroner Establishes Fact Suicide Was Committed DECEDENT WAS DIVORCEE lAND AND WAS SUBJECT TO FITS FITS OF MELANCHOLIA M E LA N CH OLI A tn Investigation which occupied the lar larger larger larger ger part of yesterday e tera and ind which was con conducted conducted ducted dUct by bj Acting Coroner Stanley S SHanks SHanks Hanks and an the police department stab established estabI I conclusively that Mrs May Hedge Voe died die In her room at No 43 3 East Second S South t street s a et Monday night peculiar circumstances committed suicide and also Slee lE brought to light a number of or facts not given public publicity ity It at the time tima of the death The main feature of yesterdays s pro proceedings Jn the case ease was a the release from custody of the thc husband Eo Wood who had been detained in the tIme police sta station st lion tion lon over night pending the investigation In of o the fact of the death without the presence of a physician the removal of the te body bod to tIme the th undertakers without official sanction and the conflicting stories told by the thc relatives r lates of the deceased wo woo woman woman man m Wood was held as a matter of pro p caution cauton The forenoon and part of the afternoon of yesterday esterla was as taken up by b Coroner Hanks and the police department in probing I ing the affair ring I Among Amon the thc facts brought out were ere that I I despite depie the statement of the husband Mrs I I Wood Wo the suicide was s subject to m lan i chola and fits fis of despondency In n a statement nt made to the coroner by Andrew Jorgeson Jor eson the friend of Wood who attended the woman oman after she was as asunder under the Influence of the opiate the mo me motive tive for the was ws found round In Ina Ina Ina a family row Monday afternoon Jorge Jorgeson son said to the tho coroner that he lie had pone gone poneto one oneto to the rooms occupied by b Mr Ir and Mrs Wood in the afternoon along about abut 3 i and that Mrs Irs Wood Woo had ap appeared appeared peare then to have hae been under the influence ence enee of liquor A row started between the th husband and Ind wife In which Mrs lf Wood threw a I beer glass at Wood oo When en this happened Jorgeson left the room and entered en entered the one occupied by th tl mother of ofIr I Mrs Ir Wood Woo Mrs Hedge While he was sas wa talking with her he heard herel the breaking of another glass glas but shortly shorty afterward Wood came out and the two Wood Jorgeson left ler the place Vi ace It I was after 6 G Gorlock o clock when they th returned to find the wife unconscious under tinder the effect of morphine The decedent I was a divorcee having married at the age of 18 IS years ers and hav bar having havIng baring ing been divorced last August Her first husband who remarried is said to be now nov residing in Bingham She was married to Wood within three months after legal separation and took her own 0 life within the same space of time following the eec 11 ond marriage Wood oo her second hue hus husband hut band was a former soldier at Fort Doug Douglas Douglas I Ilas las and nd just a few months before the marriage was d after ser serving ing a SA months sentence for desertion It I was as also learned leared from the mother that twice before the young joung oun wife wie had at attempted attempted attempted tempted suicide once one choosing chloroform and again a aln strychnine The body bod Is still stil lying hing at Hairs any arv an but so far no arrangements have been made for the funeral mae In connection with this suicide Justice of the Peace Hanks who In that capacity Is coroner finds criticism in the laxity of the enforcement of the law covering the sale of or poisons or drugs drug In the case ol or Mrs Wood it is practically established that she shi sent a messenger to some drug drugstore dru drugstore store Monday afternoon for the tho vial of morphine tablets yet no been found In any drug dr store that such were given out The empty vial vil was cas found in inthe Inthe inthe the glen room o by the suicide but its label bore only the mark of the manufacturers tuners and not of the drug store where it was obtained |
