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Show She Wanted to Die. Santa Fe, N. M., June 27. An old woman attempted suicide at the county coun-ty poor farm to-night. It was Mary Stetson, 72 years of age, who had just been released from the jail a few days previous. She is familarly known as "Grandmother," and was the oldest female prisoner ever confined in ,he jail. One night in the beginning of May she was found with a bundle of clothes and some cheap jewelry wandering wand-ering around in the rain -and slush Officer Keane arrested her and she was given thirty days in the . county jail. When she was released Mrs. Havens, the matron, gave her a dress a small white-handled penknife and secured a home for her at the county poor farm. On Monday night she was found in an outhouse covered with blood. She had attempted to cut the arteries in her wrist, and several gashes were made. One severed the artery and but for the timely discovery she would have bled to death. She was moved to the county hospital where she is recovering. recover-ing. The physicians say she is in8.ur. and steps will be tken to have her placed in the insane hospital. She told Mrs. Havens that she wanted . to go back to jail or die, as she had no friends. She is French and can speak but little English. |