Cory - Hattie Myrte tries suicide - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

The “Sent For and Couldn’t Come Club” has a new member. Last night Mryte Cory, who recently obtained a divorce from Harry Miller, attempted to leave this vale of tears by swallowing a dime’s worth of morphine. Hattie or Myrte Cory is a fine looking young woman and a sister of the redoubtable pugilist, Ed Cory, of precious memory. She had been separated from her husband for about two years before the divorce, and was known to be on, what might, perhaps, be called speaking terms with a well known saloon keeper. They were, indeed, quite friendly and this friendship merely of a platonic nature, of course, was continued after the severance of the lady’s marital bonds. It is rumored that several days ago a dispute occurred and that the lady in the case took it so deeply to heart that she resolved to end her sorrows forever and forever. At any rate she swallowed a big wad of the deadly drug last evening and about 9 o’clock was found by her parents to be in an unconscious condition and suffering greatly. Dr. Keegan was hastily summoned and by antidotes and the usual remedies used in cases of poisoning saved the young woman’s life. She is out of danger today, but is still very sick.  She is reticent as to the cause of her rash act, but seems willing to remain for a little while longer on this mundane sphere. She evidently found that is was so early in the season, yet that the waters of the river Styx were too cold to permit of comfort swimming to the shining shore. - thanks to "S" for this one