Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1911 — SUICIDE FORMERLY RESIDED IN RENSSELAER. [ARTICLE]

SUICIDE FORMERLY RESIDED IN RENSSELAER.

The Chicago papers Tuesday told of the suicide at Lemont, 111., or Stella Maxwell, aged 18 years, a daughter of a former Rensselaer man, B. P. Maxwell. With another girl she was accused of stealing soms cloaks and wraps from a masked ball which they attended Saturday night in Joliet, where she resided with her parents, and packing the plunder in a couple of suit cases they decamped. They were overhauled in Lemont and lodged in jail, where they sought death by setting fire to their clothing. When the fire was discovered in their cell they were both so badly burned that they died next day.