Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1920 — SUICIDE IN NEWTON COUNTY [ARTICLE]

SUICIDE IN NEWTON COUNTY

Mr*. William Bassett Hane* Self from Stair Railing. Mr*. William Baaaett, residing four miles southeast of Morocco, ended her life by hanging last Saturday. She leaves a husband and six children, three of whom are still at home. Mrs. Bassett, whose age was 46 years, suffered an attack of influenza two years ago and had not been in the best of health since that time. She was alone in her home at the time she took her life, and had gone out and procured a piece of telephone wire, fastened one end to the railing at the top of the stairs and wrapped the other end about her neck, and then stepped off the stairs.