Show WOMANS HORRIBLE DEATH PORTLAND WOMAN ENDS HER LIFE IN TRAGIC MANNER saturates her clothing W th kerosene and appi es the match her charred body be ng found by her husband after bu iding a bonfire bo of magi maga fines jnes and papers in a cabbage patch near her home between midnight ani daylight of S sinday mrs charles hemmerl saturated her clothes with kerosene 0 I 1 and igniting them fron the the fire deliberately burned to death mrs Hern hemmers mers was the aged wife of a firmer living at orient a small place ling ling a tew few miles east of port land As her husband was about to retire saturday Batir Satir day mrs Hern hemmers mers said she wished to read a while longer when mr heiners hemn ers arose sunday he found that his wife was not in her room and supposing that she had had gotten up before I 1 im the old man went out to his cabbage patch to do some work before breakfast there he found the wife a charred body lying in the ashes of the fire which s she had built judg ng from the surroundings the woman after her husband went to bed made repeated trips to the place carrying the papers and magazines it appears that she then saturated herself with the kerosene and bend ing over the pile of papers ignited it and allowed the flames to envelope her body bod mrs hemmers made a previous at tempt to kill herself a few years ig ago 0 in the sutro baths at san francisco fancisco cal after having been deserted by a tor for mer husband ever tince that event phe she Is 1 said to 0 o have been a sufferer from melancholia 44 |