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Show oo WOMAN SWALLOWS A LAROE AMOUNT OE POISION Staling that she was tired of life and would end all, Miss Marie Russell, aged about 30 years, a roomer at the Empress rooming house. 2462 1-2 Lin coin avenue, swallowed a quantity of bichloride of mercury tablets about 10:30 o'clock this morning and soon laspetl into unconsciousness. The woman was m her room with one or more other friends when the rash act was committed. Dr. W. R. Brown, city physician, was called He said that the landlady-stated landlady-stated that the woman had been out all night and was distressed when she came in this morning. Something was said or done, it seems, which was displeasing dis-pleasing and she snatched a bottle of the tablets from a dresser and attempted at-tempted to BWallow 'he contents She succeeded in swallowing only a few. How many is not known. W hen Dr Brown arrived the woman was unconscious. A half hour had elapsed between his arrival and the) time when she had taken the drug Hei friends did what they could to prevent I her from swallowing any great quantity quan-tity of th tablets, but he mouth was badly burned. Heroic measures were at once adopted, and the woman 'a stomach was! thoroughly washed. Her system had j absorbed a considerable quantity of J the drug, howev r, and the physician, was unable to rouse her from stupor ' She was removed to the Dee hospnal for further treatmenL At a late hour, this afternoon it was stated Ihe woman wo-man was slowly regaining consciousness. conscious-ness. ' I |