Lehi Sun | 1920-09-16 | Page 5 | Poison Fatal to Actress

POISON FATAL TO ACTRESS. Olive Thomas, Stage and Screen Star, 8uccumbs to Mercurial Draught. Purls. Olive Thomns, formerly widely known on the American musical stage and for several years past a motion mo-tion -picture stur, died tit 11 o'clock Friday morning In the American hospital hos-pital at Netillly, Sheyivns taken to that Institution Sunday suffering from a slow poisoning, having swnllnwcd a poisonous solution containing mercury mer-cury early thnt day by mistake, Itecently Miss Thomas, who came to Europo with her husband, Juck Pick-ford, Pick-ford, hnd sutfered from nervous depression, de-pression, It wus suld. First uld wns promptly given her , hy Mr. Plekfon' when ho returned Sunday to tuu hotel where they were stopping, und found his wife in a serious condition, und every poss'ble effort Wns made ut tho hospital to counteract the effects of the poison, but without avail.