The Publicist (Chandler, Okla. Terr.), Friday, April 26, 1901Mrs. Hedrick a Suicide.Chandler was horrified by the discovery early this morning that Mrs. W.A. Hedrick had committed suicide by taking carbolic acid. A.W. Pomeroy, who sleeps in Dr. Harriman’s office on the same floor of the Hoffman building as Mrs. Hedrick’s rooms, notice about daylight that Mrs. Hedrick’s pet dog was running about the hall in a distracted manner and begging piteously to be let into her rooms. This continued for an hour or so and finally between 6 and 7 o’clock, Mr. Pomeroy heard Dr. Hedrick come in from the street and go to his office, so he called the doctor’s attention to the conduct of the dog, and together they broke open the door which they found locked and found Mrs. Hedrick cold in death upon the bed. She had taken carbolic acid after carefully dressing herself for burial, had laid a towel about her throat and had seemingly died without a struggle, her hands lying folded across her breast.The coroner’s inquest is being held as we go to press.The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Thursday, May 2, 1901Mrs. Hedrick’s maiden name was Gertrude Hussey. She was born near Carbondale, Ill., in 1868. Two years later her parents moved to Stanberry, Mo., where she lived until her marriage in March, 1891. She became a member of the Baptist church in 1889. Her father died in 1893. Burial was in the Hussey cemetery at Stanberry, Mo. Mrs. Hedrick leaves a sister, Miss Claudia Hussey, of Carterville, Ill., and two brothers, T.D. Hussey, of Stanberry, Mo., and V.L. Hussey of Commerce, Tex. Dr. and Mrs. W.A. Hedrick came to Chandler six or seven years ago, and have lived here most of the time since then. Dr. Hedrick has been a very successful physician and has had many friends, while those who have known Mrs. Hedrick have always regarded her as a woman of noble character and pleasant disposition, a devoted, loyal wife, and a good neighbor…