Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1916 — CARROLL COUNTY LADY HANGED SELF MONDAY [ARTICLE]

CARROLL COUNTY LADY HANGED SELF MONDAY

Angered Because Her Husband Insisted On Attending K. of P. Meeting—Deplorable Tragedy. Displeased because of the announcement by her husband that he was going to Frankfort to attend a county K. of P. meeting at Frankfort, Mrs. Larry Stong, living just over the Carroll county line near Rossville, hanged herself from a rafter in the woodshed at her home Monday morning. The couple had discussed his going to the meeting and Mrs. Stong had seriously objected. After he had started from home he went to close the bam doorS and going again to the house found his wife’s suspended body. She had stood upon a fan mill to attach the rope and then used the mill as a place from which to drop. Her two small children were sleeping at the time the deed iwas committed. Mr. Stong removed the body from the shed and called a physician, but life <was extinct when he arrived. Friends of the unfortunate woman all agree that she was doubtless insane, the mental malady being produced by sickness. Her objection to her husband going to the meeting is believed to have been entirely due to her deranged mental state.