Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 163, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1916 — MRS. WM. HURLEY TRIES TO COMMIT SUICIDE [ARTICLE]

MRS. WM. HURLEY TRIES TO COMMIT SUICIDE

Hysterical Over Husband's Absence, She Shoots Herself in Breast— WiU Recover. Mrs. William" Hurley, who lives with her husband and two children north of the railroad, made an unsuccessful attempt at suicide Sunday evening, when she fired a bullet from a 32-caliber revolver into her breast. It is reported that there has been trouble in the family before. Sunday morning her husband informed her that he was going to spend the day with his folks. Later she was informed that he had gone to one of the resorts on the river to spend the day, and she worried over his absence until she became hysterical and at about 9 o’clock in the evening she fired a bullet from a 32-caliber revolver into her left breast. The bullet passed through the breast below the collar bone, coming out of the chest, qnd passed through a finger of the left hand and skinned the finger next to it. A doctor was called, who dressed the wound, and he says unless infection sets in she will recover. Hurley came home about 10 or 11 o’clock and got the first information of the shooting down town. Upon his arrival home he keeled over and it was some time before he was able to get around. It is reported that he was very much under the influence of liquor and that his collapse was caused by his excessive drinking.