Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 217, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1913 — Boy Balks at Poison Dose [ARTICLE]

Boy Balks at Poison Dose

Runs Away When Parent Urges Him to'Bwallow Bichloride of Mercury. Cumberland, Md. —Mrs. Lydia Eury, forty-seven years old, widow of Columbus W. Eury, was taken to the Western Maryland hospital in a critical condition, having swallowed three bichloride of mercury tablets. She failed tp get her four-year-old son George to join her in the suicidal attempt, It seemed to hate been her intention to take the child with her. Despondency over the separation from her children, two of whom, William, fifteen years old, and John, twelve years old. are at SL Mary’s Industrial school, Baltimore, is believed to have prompted' the attempt at self-destruction. Mrs. Eury’s family had been broken up since thp death of her husband, more than a year ago. and she was tired of life. ‘ With the son she was living at the home of J. T. Yost, 316 Race street, as housekeeper. The little boy told Pinkey /Eury, his uncle, that his mother endeavored to have him swallow one of the tablets, but that he refused and fled down the stairs after be had seen his mother take three. Mrs. Eury later became very ill and admitted to Mrs. Yost that she- had taken poison. Several hours elapsed before a physician arrived. He took prompt measures to* counteract the poison, and. because tlfe woman took an overdose, he thinks there is a chance for her recovery.

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