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?ttCnuUmioi] I' nun rag* One)bon In lt;{' a 'deadly poison.• *Th«Kinronlt;*o drug stove.Iplease bringwant it. now.toe late**on the orangeade Tomorrow will♦IbeIbtUerifig Waintimer, early evening the sky had! beneath a mattress of a 2-ounce jbottle, he said, bore I he label of a 1Wright said the woman apparently intended to commit suicide, but *was prevented from taking the poison by the vigilance of guards. An investigation has been started to learn the source ot the poison.The 52-year-old housekeeper, who was convicted of the murder of Mathis, her employer, in Januar. 1U2T. in order to gain possession of his properly, spent the hours preceding her execution in the company** of the prison chaplain and a few friends. Until after midnight she sat at a card table and played whist with two women friends and a woman prisoner, while outside her cell the death watch paced hack and forth. Occasionally shereached out to caress a telegram which lay on the table—a farewell message from her daughter. Mrs.(Veil Loveless.During the course of the game. Mrs. Dugan requested that her guests’ he served with orangeade. Several minutes passed before the drink was served, and 1he condemned woman called to a guard:been overcast, and a light rain was pattering on the gravelled pathway as the woman was led from her cell in the prison proper across an o pen -space to the death cell. Shesmoked a cigarette and joked withguards as sin* marched along, and as they neared the gallows houseshe laughed and sang “I don’t know where Km . going, but I’m on mywav.*'IKboahnnnatIwinwinqucShe kissed two of the guards who left her at the door of the death house and said: “t love everyoneconnected with the prison. Vonhave all been good to me. and 1can’t Ida in e you for what the law is going to do to me.” The guards were more visibly affected thanwas the woman who stood iii the shadow oi the scaffold.Unknown ChapterA telegram delivered to her in condemned cell revealed asenlint t his Sin iestNathitherto unknown chapter of her early life. The message, signed “Ada liostapple, Seattle. Wash..” read: “t sympathize with you andhave the greatest admiration for youi bravery and grit.”“Ada is an old friend of the Yukon da vs ” Mrs. Dugan said.engi _Tsell11Fpm \y hitiev(asprobably you didn't know it. but. 1 was one of those who followedthe gold rush into the Yukon/’Mrs, Dugan will he buried in thepro\Melabbhot*denmuhertilnig
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Winslow Daily Mail
Winslow, Arizona, US
Fri, Feb 21, 1930
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