Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1914 — OTTERBEIN WOMAN TOOK LITE BY HANDING [ARTICLE]

OTTERBEIN WOMAN TOOK LITE BY HANDING

Mrs. Elisabeth Edmonds, Despondent From HI Health, Hanged - - Herself in Attic. Mrs. Elizabeth Edmonds, who for years had been suffering with epilepsy, took her own life at Otterbein Monday. Despondent because of ill health, she went to the home of her mother in that town and by the use of the cord from her kimono, made a noose and hung herself from a rafter in the attic. The body was discovered at 10 o’clock Monday morning and was still warm. Mrs. Edmonds was formerly a school teacher. She was 53 years of age.