Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1916 — Wife of Inidana Soldier, Despondent, Takes Poison. [ARTICLE]

Wife of Inidana Soldier, Despondent, Takes Poison.

Laporte, Ind., Aug. 17.—Mrs. Henry Stevenson, wife of a member of Company E, First Indiana infantry, now at Camp Llano Grande, Texas, committed suicide last night by drinking carbolic acid while at her sister-in-law’s home at Knox, Ind. She was believed despondent <ver her husband’s absence and the breaking up of her home when he was called to the border. • --