Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 283, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1912 — GIRL JUMPED 250 FEET TO SUICIDE [ARTICLE]

GIRL JUMPED 250 FEET TO SUICIDE

Nebraska Girl With Queer HaUueinatlon Plunges Out of Window From Twenty-Story Building. M)lss Maude Van Dusen, of Humbolt, lowa, 25 yeaokof age, obsessed with the idea that itrwas necessary to die to save her honor, Monday plunged from the twentieth story of the McCormick building in Chicago to the paved alley below. Almost every bone in her body was broken. Across her breast w&s pinned a atrip of white linen on which she had printed in crimson letters “Death before dishonor.” Tied about her neck was a copy of Che New Testament, with several marked passages of scripture. She had been devoted, the police say, to a peculiar Hindoo cult, which had unbalanced her mind. She was out of employment and had but little money and stated that she was unable to find honest employment. A long typewritten explanation was left by her and across the head of one of the sheets of paper was die clean if I have to kill myself.