BEDFORD WEEKLY MAIL BEDFORD, INDIANA FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1902 COMMITS SUICIDE Mrs. Crawford Johnson killed herself Saturday, by taking carbolic acid. Her husband, Crawford Johnson, is a teamster, and an industrious man. One day last week, through his jealousy of her, a separation took place between the husband and wife, though she continued to occupy a part of their house, near the East Side School Building. Saturday a.m. about 9:45 the woman came down town and bought an ounce of carbolic acid at Elliott's drug store. Returning home she climbed up in the stable loft and drank all the contents of the bottle. When Johnson went to the stable to put up his horse, about 11 o'clock that forenoon, he heard groans in the hayloft, and going up to investigate, found his wife lying on the hay unconscious, and the empty bottle close by. She was carried to the house and Dr. F. E. Stipp summoned, who attempted to use a stomach pump, but was unable to do so on account of the swollen condition of the woman's tongue and throat. Her tongue was burned perfectly white, and swollen so it completely filled the mouth, and the acid had run down from the edges of the mouth and burned the chin and outside of the neck. Mrs. Johnson was about 26 years of age. She died at 1:30 Saturday afternoon. ************** Mrs. Crawford Johnson, who committed suicide Saturday, left a letter addressed to her husband. The letter stated that she was bout to kill herself, for the reason that she had been having much trouble for a month past and a fortune teller had told her that her mother was going to die soon. She gave particular directions as to how she should be dressed for burial, and ended by bidding all her friends goodbye. She was buried Monday afternoon, at Beech Grove.