People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1894 — AN AWFUL FATE. [ARTICLE]

AN AWFUL FATE.

The Tragic Suicide of Mr*. M. A. Well* at Savannah, Mo. St. Joseph, Mo., March 14.—Mrs. M. A. Wells, living at Savannah, 10 miles east of here, entered a closet Monday morning, carrying with her a can of kerosene. Locking thedooronthe inside she-poured the oil over her clothes and on the woodwork, then she set fire to her dress. Her screams alarmed the neighbors. They were compelled to break down the door, but did not succeed until the woman’s screams had eeased. W hen they finally reached her she,was dead. Mrs. Wells was assistant cashier of the Stat® bank at Savannah, and owing to the illness of her husband, who was cashier, had been doing all the work. The strain of overwork and the anxiety caused by her husband’s sickness unsettled her mind.