| Show SOUGHT DEATH FOR RELIEF mrs annie edwarda drinks carbolic acid and ends a lift of aich she vai beaty and tired discouraged with life 0 borrow nd hardship and probably not quite in her right mrs annie edwardg perhaps better known as mrs committed suicide early monday morning at her ho i e in ontario canion b drinking a large quantity 0 carbolic acid no cause is known for alia dad other alinn that decease has for a long acne led a life of hardship hardi hip od adversity and in a of u che took the fatal potion mrs edwarda got up out of bed at laic 4 as nearly as can be earned went downstairs swallowed a large dose of carbolic acid and went back to bed her eldest daughter maud was awakened by the and meanings of her dying mother and leaning oyer her detected the smell ol 01 carbolic acid and realized the awful she screamed and awoke board ers in the house who immediately benm boned dr attard the physician re bonded with all possible speed be found it ne eazary to return from the bouse to his office acain for needed a rugs and instruments when be reached the home 0 mrs edwards agaid she was still alive chouch it was plain to be been that there was no hope of ealine her life the doctor worked faithfully with her however until the aud came at about 6 30 0 clock the story behind mrs a gui cide is indeed a pitiful one deserted by her first husband danyale Dan or no reason whatever the woman was left to support himself and tour young child ren she was divorced from and in december 1903 was married to stephen J edwards who in janaan met a terrible death at the duly judge mine he being almost aisem bowled by an explosion 0 giant ponder he left no insurance and the nate wife waa again thrown on her own resources she took in boarders and managed to keep the family together though it waa an uphill up hill struggle last summler she was taken very ill with ty vhoid fever aej was sick for sever months during the past two or three months she had been very despondent at times and has expressed a desire to die and end it all Dese aged was 41 years of age and was a native of switzer land the lour children left ano girls and two boys the eldest maud bein 16 years of age are certainly left in a de plo rable condition and are deserving of every sympathy and help which can possibly be gi en them an unfair and entirely uncalled for injustice done the oldest girl maud especially and also the oldest boy by the local correa of the salt lake tribune who stated in his account of toe mothers death that the children biad been a great burden to her and intimated that their care bad hastened the sad end asa matter of fact maud when her moll er was so ill worked bravely and faithful ly to take her place and those a ho know her elate that lie has always been a loving and dutiful dauab ter whose tasks at home have kept her almost entirely out of school she is bearing up bravely under the terrible sorrow occasioned by her mother s death and has expressed a determination to keep the little sl e is deserving ot much credit and praise instead of the criticisms which come unthinking ine persons have be towed ap on her the youngest child is about five years old the affair io every respect is one of the saddest in the history of the camp and the fate of the children is a matter of speculation it is to be hoped that their father will show that be has at least a remaining spark of manhood about him by suitably providing pro riding for them mrs edwarad was buried yesterday afternoon from the family home and the funeral waa largely attended |
