A Desperate Act in the North End

With no apparent motive for the deed, Mrs. William Walker, residing at 707 East 30th street, made an attempt to end her own life last night by drinking carbolic acid. That the woman failed in her desperate attempt was due to the fact that her agonized screams after taking the poisonous fluid alarmed the neighbors, and a physician was summoned in time to save the would-be suicide's life. Whatever reasons Mrs. Walker had for wishing to terminate her life are known only to herself, and no amount of questioning on the part of her husband elicited the slightest information from the unhappy woman as to the cause of her rash act. The attempt was made shortly after 6 o'clock. Mr. Walker had just left the house, leaving his wife alone. Without delay, the woman wrote a farewell letter to her brother, Henry Corsan, at Albany, Ore., then went to her bedroom and took the poison. Suddenly the neighbors heard the woman's terrifying cries, and rushing to the house, they found Mrs. Walker writhing in pain, with an empty carbolic acid bottle clutched in her hand. They lost no time in notifying Dr. McCreery, and the latter soon had the woman out of danger.