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Show WOMAN'S HORRIBLE DEATH PORTLAND WOMAN END8 HER LIFE IN TRAQip MANNER. Saturates Her Clothing With Kerosene and Applies the Match, Her Charred Body Being Found by Her Husband. Aftor building a bonflro of mnga. zincs and pnpers In a cabbago patch near her homo, between midnight and daylight 6f Sunday, Mrs. Charles Hemmcrs saturated her clothes with korosono oil nnd, Igniting them from tho fire, dollboratoly burned to death. Mrs. Hemmers -was tho aged wlfo of a fnrmer living at Orient, a small placo lying a few miles cast of Portland. As her husband was about to retire Saturday, Mrs. Hemmers said sho wished to read a while longer. When Mr. Hommors nroso Sunday ho found that his wlfo was not in her room, and, supposing that she had gotten up boforo him, tho old man wont out to his cabbngo patch to do somo work boforo breakfast. There ho found tho wife's charred body lying In tho ashes of tho flro which Bho had built. Judging from tho surroundings tho woman, aftor hor husbnnd wont to bod, mado repeated trips to tho place, carrying tho papors and magazines. It appears that sho then saturated horsolf with tho kcrosono and, bonding bond-ing ovor tho pile of papors, Ignited It nnd allowed tho llames to envelope her body. Mrs. Hemmers mado a provlous attempt at-tempt to kill horsolf a fow years ago in tho Sutro baths at San Francisco, Cal., nfter having boon desortod by a formor for-mor husbnnd. Ever Blnco that event sho Is said to have been a sufforer' from melancholia. |