Mrs. Muerle Took Poison.

New York, 1895

Mrs. Augusta Muerle of Valley Stream, who was arrested a week ago for shooting at Henry Mott, attempted to commit suicide Friday night in her cell at the police station. When locked up she told the officer if she was put in a cell she would take poison, but no attention was paid to this threat. She took 100 quarter-grain morphine pills. The act was discovered almost immediately and two physicians were summoned. They worked on her all night and saved her life.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, June 14, 1895, p. 1.