Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 210, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1913 — Aged, Widow Committed Suicide in Bramble House. [ARTICLE]

Aged, Widow Committed Suicide in Bramble House.

Mrs. Elizabeth Banta, an aged widow who h»d bben an Inmate on several occasions at the state soldiers’ home at Lafayette, suicided early. Tuesday morning at the Bramble hotel in Lafayette. Carbolic acid was used. Mrs. Banta was despondent because she was alone in the world. She lefft a note saying where the clothes she wished to be buried in could 'be found. She had been at the hotel since her discharge from the soldiers’ home on August 22hd.