She Took Poison

Detroit, March 2fi.- EdithShain, the wife of W. A. Shain, a teamster living at 814 Rowena street, coinmitted suicide at her home by swallowing a dose of strychnine; The fact that she had taken the poison was not discovered for some time and although physicians were summoned they arrived too late fco be of any service. The wonian lived at the house with her parenta and lier husband. Her husband was not home when she took the poison. She was taken with spasras and at first denied that she had taken anything, but finally admitted to her inother that she had" taken strychnine. The poison had been in the house about a year, her husband having used it , while wolf hunting in northern Michigan. When seen he said that he could ascribe no reason for the suicide. His wife had been sick for a week with the grip, he said, and had been in bed most of that time and was in a despondent mood. Asked if there had been any domestic difficultie8 he stated that there had been none that he could speak of. Mrs. Shain was only 20 vears of age and leaves a child two years of age.