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Show HER COURAGE FAILED. After Years of Sorrow and Hardships "Woman Takes Her Life. Special to Tho Tribune. PA11IC CITY. Utah; Jnn. .11. Th future held out no hopo for Mr. C. J. Edwurds. Tho present had only hard work and poverty to offer her and hor children; ho sho endd her Ilfo this morning. Carbolic acid was the means sho Used. Her eldest daughter, a girl of 15 yours, wns asleep by tho woman's sldo when sho RWnllowcd tho poison. She dltcov-err-d what had been dnno nnd called for help, but when nolghboru and doctors arrived It wns too late. Mrs. 1-Mwardn hart hnd a hard llfo In this place. Six yeara ago her first husband, a mnn named Take, dererted her, leaving her with four omall children. By hard work aho managed to keep the family alive, nut It wn a btruggte nil tho tlmo. Thrco years ago eho married Edwards. He died a year ngo and tho widow found herself again In straitened clrcumstnncos. Then tho four children chil-dren bocamo hnrd to mnnage. Tha eldest girl and tho next eldest child, a boy Of 13 years, refused to attend school regularly, and In other ways became a earo to tho hardworking hard-working mother. Wearied bv her own strug-glu strug-glu for exlntenco nnd by tho constant an-noynncn an-noynncn of theno children, Mrs. Edwards lias threatened several times during tho past few Weeks to end hor llfo. Iist evening sho called her children nbout hor. From the linger of the eldest girl she took a couple of rings. Theso sho placed on her own llngor, telling tho children that no matter what happened they must let no ono remove theso ring". She told thc children to bo good nnd Gqd would bless them. Then sho retired. EAarly this morning sho arose, went to the kitchen nnd then returned to her Ih1. A short tlmo later tho daughter with whom oho slept heard a strange noise. Sho half rose to wake her mother nnd Bmolt cnrhollo acid. No coroner's Inquest will bo held. |