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“You are not my Mamma.”
These words, alleged to
have been taught her by her father, and uttered by the little daughter of Mrs.
Marie Sparks, divorced wife of a local business man, were followed today by the
woman’s suicide. Despondent over the divorce proceedings, and that fact that
she was to have her child only six months or me year, the mother’s last desire
to live was swept away when the child, returned from a visit to the father,
renounced the other parent, according to the mother’s relatives. This morning
she was taken to the receiving hospital in a dying condition, having swallowed
poison. This afternoon she died.
The poison was, taken at the Harrison Apartment where Mrs.
Sparks lived with her sister, Bella Mayfield.
According to what she would tell, when the physicians would
allow her to talk, Mrs. Sparks was depressed and discouraged. Three weeks ago
she came from San Francisco to stay temporarily with her sister. Before, she
took the poison she wrote a letter to her daughter, who is in a school at Los
Angeles, and one to Hal Miller, whole address in Oakland is not known.
Mrs. Mayfield declined to give any information to the
hospital authorities concerning Mrs. Sparks.
[“‘You Are Not My Mamma,’ Says Child; Tragedy Is Result.”
Oakland Tribune (Ca.), Feb. 19, 1917, p. 4]
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