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Show ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE ey DESPONDENT WOMAN I Prompt .Arrival of Physician Saves Life of Mrs. Cclcssa Newel I. Despondency, believed to have been caused by separation from her husband and tho loss of her iwo children, who are Intlio custody of their father, ia thought to havo prompted Mrs. Cclcssa Newell. 7G" East Third South street. ,to attempt suicide Thursday evening by swallowing swallow-ing three bichloride of mercury tablets. Tho woman's attcmpl at self-destruction was discovered ' almost immediately by a Mrs. McComilck. residing at the Newell home, ami ihc police department was promptly liotllicrj. Br. j; 13. Steele was summoned and when ho arrived the woman .was writhing In convulsions. The liboral use of antidotes checked the ravages rav-ages of the poison a.nd within an hour Mrs. IScwell was pronounced out of danger. dan-ger. She, declined to discuss her attempt at suicide and would give no explanation of the affair. From perions living in the house it was learned that the woman was separated from hor husband some months nqo, and It is believed that despondency, duo to the estrangement, prompted tho deed. |