Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 265, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1911 — Kentland Woman Made Doubly Sure of Successful Suicide. [ARTICLE]

Kentland Woman Made Doubly Sure of Successful Suicide.

The body of Mrs. Soloman Spangler, wife of a retired farmer at Kentland, was found Tuesday night suspended from a joist in the basement of their heme. Tuesday morning Mrs. Spangler purchased a bottle of formaldehyde and on her way home she (stopped at the undertaking establishment to inquire as to the virtue of the poison. At about 8 o’clck that evening she drank the poison and then went to the basement, slipping her head through the noose of a rope and stepped off a chair.