Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1912 — MOTHER AND SON END LIVES [ARTICLE]

MOTHER AND SON END LIVES

Pair Commit Suicide as Phonograph Record Plays “Nearer, My God, to Thee.” New York, Dec. 13.—After placing a sohg record, “Nearer, My God, to TJiee,” In a phonograph at their home in Brooklyn last night, Mrs. Marie Ultzen, sixty years old, wife of a well-to-do architect, and her son, william Ultzen, Jr., forty, committed suicide by fastening rubber tubes to theta faces and turning on the gas.