Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1909 — WOMAN, 75, LEAPS TO DEATH [ARTICLE]

WOMAN, 75, LEAPS TO DEATH

Plunges From .Windmill Derrick While Daughter Is Seeking Her. Osage, la., April 9.—As Mrs. George Gulliver started a search for her aged mother she was horrified to see the woman plunging to the ground from a fifty-foot windmill derrick. Mrs. J. C. Pierce, seventy-five years old, had been ill several months. She had repeatedly threatened to end her life. The tall broke several bones and she died soon after carried indoors.