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Show POISON. A Salt Lake Girl Ituus Away From Her Homo, Becomes au Actress; Marries a Varieties Actor, And Suicides at St. Joseph, Mo. We condense the following account of the suicide of a Salt Lake girl, at St. Joseph, Mo., on tho 17th instant, iVtmi the Gazntte of ' that city. The uufottuuato girl was daughter of Mr. Giundhand, baker, of this city : The Planters' house is located on tho corner of Main and Francis stteL'ts, and at this well-known haunt of vice a young actress, seventeen years of age, the wife of a man in tho jsaine profession, committed suicide ion Wednesday night last by taking a 'sufficiency of laudanum to produce j death. It appears that family I troubles were the cauao of tho rash a-t, und tiiat Bhe had once hetore at-j at-j teinptid to take her own life for the is.urn; reason. She was known in the j theatrical company as Nellie Moros i co, hut the evidence in the case shows I her to be tho wife ot Frank Wyatt, to I whom sho was united in marriage at ;Ciifiyenne on the 14th day of June, 1S75. The following are the details of the sad occurrence, as shown by the testimony taken at the ooroxer's inquest. Frank Wyati'a statement. I am nineteen years of age, and have knowD the deceased about one year. II first knew her at 0;niha, Nebras-!ka, Nebras-!ka, and was married to her June 14th, 1S75, by a magistrate in Chey-jenne. Chey-jenne. When firt married, I sent ; the deceased borne, and went to tho Black Hillh. I afterwards ortine back I in three months to Cheyenne, and ! sent home to Salt L.ike for deceased. I I came from Cheyenne directly here. Deceased ran away from her home ! in Salt Lake Valley when very young. 'Her maiden name was Millie Grund band, ' and she was of Jewish parentage. parent-age. She did not Becm unhappy ( si nee our marriage, and never j threatened in . my presence to destroy herself. Bhe was not in the I habit of using morphine as stimulant, jl'did not see her until after the theatre thea-tre began. About ttie last act, I received re-ceived a message that ebe was very sick and cdying. I did not believe it. When I left her last she was well as ever. Sho had taken morphino in the afternoon, and vomited before dark. The morphine bottle was found, which is the way I knew it. There was somo morphine left in it. She sa:d she was all right after she ceased vomiting, and was walking around the room. There had been no difficulty diffi-culty bf tweeu the deceased and myself. my-self. Sho was about seventeen years o'd. I am satisfied she took the morphine mor-phine herself, and have no suspicion that any one gave ij to her. I do not know the cause of the death of deceased. de-ceased. She had complained of her side at different times. I am not aware that deceased had ever been married before. She was an actress before be-fore I married her. I know of no cause to urge her to suicide. Deceased was to have left this morning on the 3 o'clock train. Her baggage is on the road now, She was going to Omaha, and I was not going witli her. Sho was going because I told her I wasj going to get a divorcs. The reason I assigned for getting a divorce was, that she had been untrue to me since our marriage, and had been intimate with Leo Morosco, a member of tho company. They were together in the same house when I was not there, and I had information th.it satisfied j me of the art. I licensed her of it since I came to St. Joseph. I have been out of my head a part of the time. This was caused by the sudden sud-den news of her death. She denied having been intimate with any other man. She w;u dying when I camo in, and was too far gono to recognize me. Wc had no unkind words yesterday yes-terday afternoon. I think it was day I before yesterday we had tiie words I about the divorce. We have not been j together eiuce. At the time we vn-ra I married, I got a marriage certificate, and Lave kept it iu my trunk. I Georgo M. Tealo's testimony I am '& druggist. Wednesday morning, ' between 9 and 10 o'clock, a young I woman came into the store and aaked me for a first-class lawyer. I told her I I considered General Loan a first-class i lawyer, who was very near by, and showed ber the house. She then went out. Sometime afterwards can't Bay how loDg she returned and inquired for a justice. She seemed very much excited. 1 referred her to Squire Saltzman. About half-past 9 o'clock at night I was awakoned by the door-1 hell- ringing, and called and asked what was the matter. There were . three young men there, who said a woman was sick around the corner, and they wan tea me to go and see her. I told them I was not a doctor, 1 and they inquired of me where they i could find one. I told them I thought Dr. Geigcr was tho nearest one, with which thry went away. The deceased came in lor laudanum in the afternoon, after-noon, and I did not let her have it. She got mad and went out. She seemed nearly crazy at tho time. I was called up again by the husband of the deceased, who eaid he wanted gome lobelia, and a third time by Dr. Knight. Mollic Brown's statement I was : called about half-past 11 o'clock i Wednesday night by Miss Maggie Lou iso, w ho said M ra. Morocco wished me to comet up Btairs. I went up and found tho eleccasEU lying on her side. She said "Can you do anything for her Mollie givo her -anything?" I gave her somo mustard and the white of an egg. Before I gave it to her I opened her eyes and Buspectcd she had taken poison of some kind. Her eyes were set in her head. I aaked her if sho had taken anything, and she replied, "Yes, I took some laudanum about fivo o'clock.". I said, "Millie, open your mouth and tako a spoonful of this." Sho shut her teeth together and replied, "No; I don't want nothing." noth-ing." I got her to take lour spoonfuls spoon-fuls of the mustard and egg before the doctor came. After he came, ho said aha should be given Btrong coflce. When 1 went to give her the coflee, I asked her if she knew me, and she said she did not. T got her to take a spoonful of collee, and she could not bike any moro. I turned hr eyelid up; tho pupil was dilated. It was said alio would be dead in about two minutes. I started out of the door and was called back. I atood by the ade uf the bed. She died about 12 o'clock. Leo Morosco's statement Deceased told mo day before yesterday she was going to tako poison. I cautioned ber not to do it. She afterwards told me she had taken poison, and that ahe took the firbt dose day befure yea te-rday about 12 o'clock. She did not tako enough, and it had no effect. 1 sat up with her night before last. ' In the morning I left her packing ber trunk to go away. After her trunk was picked, sho said Bhe would not leave alive. She eaid if I didn't let hnr tako poison here, she would tako it on the train. I told her not to be foolish, for everything would come out right,- but it did not do much gcod. Walter MoroBco gave her some money $25 or $30. Bhe took out twenty-five cents and went out. She then came back and wanted to lay down. I went to my room, and uhe called mo to her's in the afternoon. She asked me to forgive bur lor what she had dune. Sim gavo me a tlireo-ounce tlireo-ounce vial with some laudanum iji it, and B&id she had taken tome. The bottle was thrown away, and I don't know where it came from. I suppose tho deceased had a falling out witn her husband. She said she had lost his love aud wanteil to die. I sat up with her until allied to the stage. When I started away Bho put, her arms around my neck, kissed me, ands-iid, "Good-bye." Whtn I came back she was unconscious. I don't know what became of the Mnoney father gave her. Eila Mnrosco's testimdny It was dome.-li ; trouble bwtween the deceased and her husband. He charged her with infidelity, and they came loan agreement that they would be divorced. di-vorced. Afterward's deceased was not satisfied to have a divorce. Day before yesterday my son camo down stairs with a letter written by the deceased, de-ceased, Btating: "when you read this letter I will be dead." I then went up stairs to her room and found her lying on her side. I think sho had just waked up. She told me yesterday yester-day msrning she had taken a email dose of morphine. She appeared mad and excited all day. At about five o'clock I went up to see her. She then told me she had been taking laudanum. . I then went to the theatre. At half-past 10 o'clock I was sent for, and went to her room. I found ber unconscious. Bhe didn't I kno'.r mo. She died a little afier 11 o'clock. Maggie Louise's testimony De-ceaseel De-ceaseel told me in the box of the theatre, night before Jast, that she had bo much trouble, ir she hd strychnine sho would take nomo. Deceased snid that Mr. Moro3ej was trying to seperatc her and her husband, hus-band, and had, been ever since they were married. After hearing the testimony, the jury gave the following verdict: "Tne deceased camo to her death by poison, administered by her own hand, on the 17th day of November, lS7o, at the city of St. Joseph. |