Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1909 — PREFERRED DEATH TO CELL [ARTICLE]

PREFERRED DEATH TO CELL

Woman Takes Poison on Being Benfenced to Foderal Prison. Atlanta, Ga., April 20.—Preferring the chill of the grave to the chill of a prison cell, Dr. Rosa 8. Monnish drank prussic acid and died an hour after she had been sentenced to serve two years in a federal prison. Dr. Monnish had trouble with the postal authorities. She erected a sanitarium in a fashionable neighborhood over the objections of the citizens. Later she had a disagreement with her husband and out of this marital infelicity grew her trouble with the .postal authorities.