Ellis - Mary Stout
MARY STOUT ELLIS
Source: Crawfordsville Journal April 26, 1912
CARBOLIC ACID ROUTE CHOSEN MRS. MARY ELLIS PUTS AND END TO HER LIFE FORMERLY LIVED HERE Eloped with Guy Millikan three Years Ago Leaving Her Husband and Two Children
Indianapolis, April 26 -- Mrs. Mary D. Ellis, twenty-nine years old, rooming house keeper, 2327 East Michigan street, died at the city hospital from the effects of carbolic acid taken last evening with suicidal intent. Mrs. Ellis was found by a roomer at her house. A note was addressed to Guy Millikan and not finished was found beside her. It reads: "Dear Guy - You will be surprised when you read this---" Mrs. Ellis is believed to have come to Indianapolis from Crawfordsville, where her husband, Daniel D. Ellis, is living with two children, a girl ten years old and a boy six years old. Mrs. M. B. Ellis, mother-in-law of the would be suicide, declares that Mrs. Ellis fled from Crawfordsville with Millikan about three years ago. Mr. and Mrs. Ellis have been seperated three years. Bicyclemen Gothisch and Bastin sent Mrs. Ellis to the city hospital. Mrs. Mary D. Ellis was the wife of Daniel Ellis, better known as "Belva" who resides with his mother and two children on Lane avenue in the northwest part of the city. Guy Millikam, an account of whom the woman attempted self-destruction lives with his father at 1019 pawpaw street.