Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1909 — WIFE COMMITS SUICIDE [ARTICLE]

WIFE COMMITS SUICIDE

Plunges Knife Into Breast After Closing Telephone Conversation.

Indianapolis, July' 9.—Mrs. Elizabeth Adams, thirty years old, stabbed herself to death with a kitchen knife in her home in the Pasadena flats, a fashionable apartment house at Eleventh and Illinois streets.

Mrs. Lillian Kelly, wife of the janitor, was the only witness, and according to her story to the,police, Mrs. Adams plunged the knife into her breast immediately after talking to a traveling salesman over the telephone.

Mrs. Adams’ husband, also a traveling salesman, is on his way here from Richmond, Ind.. where he was notified of his wife's death.