Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1914 — ATTEMPTS SUICDE AT NEWLAND [ARTICLE]

ATTEMPTS SUICDE AT NEWLAND

-Mrs. \\ ilbur Wolf Takes Laudanum, But !«. Brought Around Without Serious Results. • Following a domestic quarrel, it is alleged, .Airs. Wilbur Wolf, aged 2«, of near Xewland, drank a quantity of laudanum.about 11:30 o’clock Wednesday night with suicidal intent. Her husband tried to reach Rensselaer to call a doctor, but could get no response from “central here after over an hour's trial. He then secured a party to drive to Rensselaer and bring the woman in, but the machine got stuck in the mud and it was necessary to get a team of horses to pull it out. It was about 3 o’clock when they reached Rensselaer, where the unconscious woman was taken to the Makeever house ami Dr. Johnson, after a long time brought her out of the effects of the poison. She wanted to .go home after regaining "ipusness, and was taken there Wednesday morning.