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Park Crow, June 7,18g0.—Special telegram to Th Huahin)—Maggie Thompson, a keeper of a howe of if-fame, endedsper existence here Last night about 1 o'clock in a very dramatic way. Two bottles of strychnine in a half a tumbler of water did the work and coin put an end to the life of the “poor unfortu nate. Out a quarter to 1a o'clock she entered the Palace restaurant with her little child and ordered the waiter to being her some oysters. While the oysters were being prepared she asked for a corkscrew, which was civen tei, the waiter returned in a few minutes and saw her trying to give the contents to her late child, who stubbornly refused. “Mag,” as she is commonly known, told the waiter the child had a bad cough and thus the mixture was cough medicine and when the child continued to refuse it, she arose, held the pn aloft, as though offering a toast, shook it gently to mix the contents, and then drank it. She rai set the ae again at before and then dashed it to the floor. Shook the waiter she had taken saych wine but wanted to pay her debts before she died. She paid for the oysters and sat down and ate them. A Dr.was sent foe, but before he arrived he was dead. Before dying she reproved her little one formot drink ing the poison with her, and repeatedly called to her, “Oh, why diden’t you take it too!” Before losing consciousomes she arranged 0 ° the dispostion of the child, ‘who without four years of ages Sie was compelled this Week to ive up her hous on account of non-payment of feet and it is thought that in working on her mind already weakened by the wil life she had led, urged her w commit the rash act, Salt Lake is going to have a grand time on the “Fourth.” Eight bands of music and a seal tribe of Ludians will march in the procession.
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Ephraim County Register
Ephraim, Utah, US
Thu, Jun 12, 1890
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