Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1911 — TAKES POISON; REPENTS [ARTICLE]

TAKES POISON; REPENTS

Young St. Joe Wife Attempts to End Life but Is Saved. Despondent and without means of support by the desertion of her husband, Mrs. Frank Cook, 18-year-old wife and mother, tried to end her life •y taking strychnine. Purchasing the poison at a drug store, she did not wait to get home but took it on the street at St. Joseph, Mich. Then calmly boarding a car she started home. Before she arrived at her house, however, she was partially overcome and fell fainting at a neigh bor’s house. Repenting of her act, she told what she had done and a physician was summoned in time to save her life. /