Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-12-08 | Page 13 | Despondent Mother Attempts Suicide

DESPONDENT MOTHER ATTEMPTS SUICIDE Salt Lake, Dec 8. Ascribing business busi-ness reverses and domestic worries :s causes for her act, Mrs. J W How-ell, How-ell, aged 3S years, of 163 South Second Sec-ond East street, attemptod suicide at 8:80 o'clock last night by drinking poison. She was rushed to the police po-lice headquarters emergency hospital and the administration of antidotes -oon counteracted the effects of the drag Within an hour she was able to go home Mrs. Howell is the mother mo-ther of a large family, the youngest of which is a baby of 7 months Lack of adequato facilities in the matter of medical aid at police headquarters head-quarters again proved a serious handicap han-dicap Officers at headquarter -, scoured tho ritv by telephone for on of the physicians appointed to look after pollrp emergency cases, but none could bo found. Finally Dr. O. M. Benedict, who lives two blocks away on First avenue, ave-nue, was called and happened to be ut homo. He hurnod to the station ' JbsbbI and attended to the case. Fortun- mbbbbbI ately. it was discovered that not a nl sufficient amount of poison to cause 4bbbb1 death had entered the woman's atom- iH ach, but ample time elapsed during the search for mdlr-al aid for the lassssl woman to have died had the drug FAbbbbI been one of many other varieties or Ml of large quantity. 1