Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1878 — Youthful Suicides. [ARTICLE]

Youthful Suicides.

—James Zeis, aged 13, son of L. L. Zeis, a farmer in Allen county, Ind., committed suicide by hanging “himself with a piece of rope from a beam in his father’s barn. The only cause assigned is that he had been accused of stealing a lead pencil from a store and threatened with arrest. —Nancy Lee, aged 17, committed suicide at Boonville, Warwick county, Ind., by taking a teaspoonful of mor-n phine. On the llth of January- her moßt intimate friend, Mrh. Fanny Dillingham, committed Buicide, after being married a few weeks, on account of difficulties with her mother-in-law. Miss Lee had ever since been depressed in spirits. She left several letters to her parents stating that she hail taken,morphine, requesting to be buried beside her friend, Fanny Dillingham, and fojthem to visit Terre Haute and attend a spiritualist seance, promising to appear with her friend. —The body of a young and beautiful woman, dressed in a male attire, was recently discovered in a water-hole, not far from Rockford, 111, The Coroner held an inqqest on the corpse, and it was found that the young girl was Miss Ella Schultz, adopted daughter of H. C. Buell, a wealthy farmer of Hebron, HI., who disappeared mysteriously ffofd her home about seven weeks previous. The girl Was about 16 years of age, intelligent, but despondent at times. When found she was dressed in a 1 heavy suit of youth’s clothing and rubber boots. It is' supposed that she inteuded to run away from home, and that, becoming discouraged and despondent, she committed suicide. She had cut her hair, which was found secreted in a pocket of her coat. Verdict, suicide.