CHICAGO. March 2.--[Exclusive Dispatch.] Mrs. Paul Kimball, daughter of former United States Senator Frank J. Cannon of Utah, deposed apostle of the Mormon Church, and wife of a wealthy lumber dealer, died from morphine poisoning early this morning at her home, No. 837 Lawrence avenue. Tonight it was said she had recently undergone several surgical operations and had several times declared her suffering was intense and she would end it all.
    While former Senator Cannon is disposed to believe his daughter committed suicide, he left Denver for Chicago this afternoon with a view to assisting the police in clearing up the circumstances which marked her death. He said his daughter had been ill for some time and the fact that Wednesday had been the anniversary of her mother's death may have preyed upon her mind. He is expected to arrive in the city tomorrow.
    Although a Coroner's jury at the inquest held at the Kimball home declared Mrs. Kimball, who was 24 years old, died from morphine taken while despondent, the police are still working to clear up many features which so far have been unexplained. The verdict of suicide was rendered after the family physician, Dr. Gilbert H. Wynekoop, testified she had been despondent and unhappy for months.

    Mr. Kimball, on the stand at the inquest, declared that his wife was not addicted to drink or morphine, and that she had never threatened to take her life. He said their relations had been happy. This was a contradiction of Dr. Wynekoop's assertion that Mrs. Kimball had been under the influence of liquor early Wednesday afternoon, when he met her coming from a dentist's office and that she had frequently told him she was tired of life.
    According to the story told by Mr. Kimball, his wife arrived home about 7 o'clock Wednesday evening. Dinner was ready and they sat down to the table together. He said he did not converse with her "because there wasn't anything to talk about."
    "I left the dinner table and went into an adjoining room," the husband said, "and had been there but a few minutes when I heard her call me. Before I could reach her side she fell unconscious on the floor. She has been subject to fainting spells, and I believed it was one of them, so called Mrs. Marion Hulbert from next door. Then I telephoned Dr. Wynekoop."

    Dr. Wynekoop said that when he arrived at the house Mrs. Kimball was unconscious. Mr. Kimball, he said, was drinking brandy heavily and raved like a maniac when he failed to bring Mrs. Kimball to.
    "I was forced to give an opiate shortly after 10:30 o'clock, to quiet him," Dr. Wynekoop said.
    Mr. Kimball had been drinking heavily, and today at the inquest, was under the influence of liquor. Several times while on the witness stand he drank from a pocket flask.
    Mrs. Horace Sherman of No. 1322 Norwood avenue, a sister of Mrs. Kimball, and whose husband was associated with Mrs. Kimball in the lumber business until the first of the year, refused to give any explanation of her sister's act. Mrs. Sherman was Miss Hesma Cannon.

Source:

Unknown, "Mysterious, Unhappy Wife's Troubles Over," The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Friday, 3 March 1911, p. I7.