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Show HAD PREPARED TO TAKE LAUDANUM Denver. Colo.. Aug. 13 When a newspaper reporter visited the little back room In which is the home of Mrs. Mary de Vot yesterday, and told lor that the government had awarded award-ed her $840 back pension, and an al-I al-I lowance of $12 a month for the remainder re-mainder of her life. Mrs. de yot fainted. After recovering, the aged voman went to a drawer and, taking up a small bottle, poured its contents, con-tents, laudanum, upon the floor. , She said she had been struggling against poverty for years, and two weeks ago purchased the poison to c-n.1 her life when her last cent was I ' gone. I "I don't need you now," she smile I ps she emptied tho vial' j Her. husband died while serving In! the union army during the chll war |