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5VIOLENTLY INSANE.ThisMrs. Nathan Smith Trias to Kill Herself and Baby.iMre. Nathao Smith is at St. Josephs h J?1 hospital suffering from the effects of a j jjJ” fail she hud Jaie yesterday nfternoou. | t Crazed by grief over the death of her i all t husband she attempted thrice to take! lowe her own life* and once attempted tnur-1 the I der. Each attempt wns unsuccessful. |First she attempted to drown herself; j t“r^ second, to set lire to herself and the 1 aDd third time she jumped from the roof of her home,Mr. Smith died ut his home. No. 707n-TnwinniiilMarctsfius street, on Sunday night, as _Irei told in The Herald yesterday. An au- j * L^‘ topsy held hist night showed that cere- j j0L.thgebral hemorrhage, induced by a fracture os«^,nd of the skull, caused death. It was also. the ihe50-m-onasleeD.H.U3er-A.Corod.'ASm-i adieth-^'CT[he:kclatcfcshown that death was hastened, and! JutoutiotbetlckcracegranTwowould necessarily have been caused by an overdose of morphine.' Mrs. Smith, who had been on two different occasions an inmate of Ogdcos-bnrgh State hospital, showed unmistakable signs-of returning inaauity yesterday. Her husband’s death was a great shock. To her friends and relatives she openly declared tlmt she would kill ker-self. Along in the afternoon she was missed and after a search she was found near the Erie caual. She was with difficulty restrained from jumping in and was taken home.A short time.after she was discovered with il handful of matches and about to light her clothing. The next attempt to end her life was at 0 o'clock. She took her 1-year-old child and running upstairs started toward n window, intending to throw it buL The child was taken from her, and she went through another window onto the roof or an addition of the house, which is only 3-story b,lrc high. From that she jumped to the x. ground, n distance of about twelve feet. r; Her friends and relatives, who hod ’ been, unable to reach iier in time to prevent the act hastened down stairs and picked her up. She wes unconscious. Dr. George JL Kinnc, who was called, had her removed to St. Josephs hospital. It was thought tlmt her arm and skull were fractured.• It is believed to-day that her skull is not fractured, and an examination showed that her arm was nor, hut was strained. She is badly bruised and suffering from hysteria. #IJor legs are paralyzed, but sense ot feeling reumins. It is thought that the paralysis is caused by the hysteria.' The symptoms were also evident of a fracture of the skull, hut none could be found. -Saeste;HiHe Mi Be R. I Dr Hr.r IU ford \V ford At Sprl Ja A1 tic « . W,ndcirthe?heul-re-toral1thteds a en-nte tilt»ut)neim-IUInr.Ir.Va.rFarPITwcInvilliLIBrUME!too.M. Llt; burj Bi OrnA!Jceptf
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Syracuse Evening Herald
Syracuse, New York, US
Tue, Aug 02, 1898
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