Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1914 — Medaryville Lady Committed Suicide—Was Long Sufferer. [ARTICLE]

Medaryville Lady Committed Suicide—Was Long Sufferer.

The Advertiser. ’ Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Riffil, wife of Jahn Riffil, living on South Jefferson street, committed suicide last Monday by drinking a quantity of carbolic acid, dying from the effects of the poison about 10:30 in the evening, after suffering about ten hours after taking it The family moved to this town from Jefferson township early last' fall and we are told that for the past twenty-three years Mrs. Riffil has been a great sufferer from epileptic attacks which 'came upon her in monthly periods and after each such attack she was very despondent weary and discouraged, and it was in one of these moods that she committed the rash act and all efforts to save her life were in vain. Ooroner Needham came over from Star City last Tuesday and his verdict is in accord with the above facts. * Mrs. Raffll was 60 years, 6 months and 16 days of age and the mother of twelve children, three of whom preceded her in death, her husband and nine children living to mourn her sad death. The funeral occurred last Thursday, services being held at the house, Rev. Fields officiating, after which the remains were taken to Jefferson township and laid to rest In the Koster cemetery.