Alice Stone
TO SHUFFLE OFF, One of the 400 of Wild Cat Chute Takes Pizen To Kill Herself. "Wild Cat Chute", in the lower part of the city, which has gained much notoriety in the past, came to the front yesterday with another ugly sensation. About 7 o'clock Sunday night the occupants of the tenement house located on North Main Street, in the rear of the property formerly owned by W.W. Dunnavant, were thrown into a state of great excitement by finding Alice Stone, nee Alice Smith, in a dying condition, she having tried to commit suicide. From the woman's six-years-old son it was learned that on Saturday night before she attempted to take her life the woman had called him to her, told him of her intentions and instructed him to sell off the furniture after she was dead and then take up his residence with his grandmother. After this the boy observed her drink something from a small bottle. She suffered all night and Sunday about the hour named above. Drs. Mason and Baughman were summoned. Officer Lewis, however, arrived at the house first and, securing the bottle and remaining contents, left the house, so that when the physicians arrived they were compelled to work in the dark, not knowing what the woman had taken. They went to work and administered the usual remedies in such cases and finally succeeded in getting her out of danger much to the patient's disgust. Mrs. Smith is a grass widow, about 34 years of age, and formerly resided at Marion and later at Galion. She was of respectable parentage, but it was learned from those familiar with the case that shortly after her marriage, while residing at Marion, her husband was sent to the penitentiary for burglary. There were three sisters in the family, one of whom, it is understood, is now located in a local sporting house. The victim, it is stated by the same authority was also a boarder at one of these places until a short time ago, when she rented the rooms where she now lives. Upon recovering sufficiently to be able to converse the woman "roasted" the physicians unmercifully for saving her life, saying that she wished to "shuffle off" and would repeat the attempt. From various sources it was leaned the woman had a lover who has been very attentive until a short time ago and his desertion caused her to attempt suicide.
From The Richland Shield & Banner, February 27, 1892