Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1912 — Woman Takes Strychnine. [ARTICLE]

Woman Takes Strychnine.

Portland, June 6. —Leaving a note of farewell, begging forgiveness of her granddaughter and others for her act, Mrs. Genevra I. Shumaker, fifty years old, committed suicide by swal ’’owing the contents of a six-grain bottle of strychnine. Worry over financial matters is believed to have unbalanced her mind. Six children survive. „