Show ZOOM FROM THURSDAYS DAILY FEB 3 SUICIDE THE INCENTIVE SHROUDED IN MYSTERY about 8 this morning coroner taylor was notified that his services were required ato atno B E eighth south street went down to inquire into the nature of the case on arriving at the house which proved to be the residence of e mr stephen tucker he was confronted with one of the most extraordinary cases that it has eve ever fallen to his lot to investigate in the centre orv ol 01 the front room waicy w faces the north stretched 0 one ut upon a low table and covered with a white shroud decorated with flowers lay the silent form forin of emily honeysett a child of eleven years who died at pm yesterday the first witness examined was george tucker about 19 years of age son of the pro etor 0 the house who testified that the e g girl irl prepared supper for him about half a past t A od lock and then sat down dowd to crochet that she seemed in good spirits and described a gentleman who had called that afternoon as a young man with a blue cutaway cut away coat a sort of dude and laughed cheerfully at the idea not long afterwards dat dm 4 ad pm in she was taken with a convulsion of a most extraordinary character which the young man said seemed to last over two minutes when she began to recover a little mr stephen tucker who had bad taken her in his arms asked her what ailed her she told him not to go 90 away as she was gold going g to die that she had taken two p pinches n e ea of strychnine poison from a little vial kept ke t in the house for riso K ironing ning mice dr dr benedict was mediately summoned and arrived about 6 when he found her in mr tuckers Tuc keks arms she was suffering a good od deal at times especially from m abut told the doctor that she had taken thet poison the doctor did all that he e could for her under the circumstances cum stances but he be arrived too late to save her life he thought she must have taken ten grains at least and that she had a portion at first amstand Ar stand and finding it did not act as speedily Ap as she thought it should had bad token a second dose she went into I 1 one convulsion after another which increased in frequency until she died there Is no do known cause for t this rash ait act in one so you young ag she was wasll wash h girl 0 of temperament ve very r self reliant and not inclined to t talk 1 I much unless interrogated she bass has a father a brother aged 14 who to Is an idiot and a sister at south cott cottonwood 11 ath d but word had not reached ahe ibe 1 lather er at 11 a in to day though measures were taken to notify notay him immediately I 1 it wah stated that th the deceased had a great dread of dying from diphtheria from which several children had recently suffered in that neighborhood she had bad AL addressed a letter to hex hei grandmother which began thus grandma when you receive this I 1 shall be deada dead but when one of the boys had read thus far she obe snatched it from him and threw it in the fire it Is possible that this letter might have thrown some light an on the cause of her taking the poison on she told mr tucker ta cheer while aler he held h her er in ia his arms that she did want to die when she took the poison but that now she wanted to live it was altogether a knost most remarkable case but the evidence of the immediate cause of death was so ample and unmistakable that an inquest was deemed unnecessary |