Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1912 — DIES OF “FORTUNE” TALE [ARTICLE]

DIES OF “FORTUNE” TALE

Lovelorn Girl Consults Soothsayer, Then Swallows Polson—Attempted to End Life Before. Allentown, Pa.—After a visit to a fortune teller, who could not give her any encouragement that she could get back her lover, William Sterner, with whom she had fallen out four years ago. Miss Mary A. Nagle aged twentyeight years, a silk winder, committed suicide by taking carbolic acid. She was motherless and had for years lived with Mr. and Mrs. Victor Kramer, who. regarded her as a member of the family. On returning home the girl was greatly depressed, explaining how the fortune teller’s philters and potions had failed and that the casting

of the horoscope had not given any hopeful sign. When she Intimated Jthat she might drown herself Mrs. Kramer tried to cheer her up. During the night, however, there were sounds of distress from Miss Nagle's room. The door was broken open and she was taken to the hospital, where all efforts to save her proved futile. Once before, soon after the tiff with her lover, she tried suicide by swallowing match heads and left a long letter giving minute directions for her funeral.