People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1894 — Sensational Suicide. [ARTICLE]

Sensational Suicide.

Norwich, Conn., Nov. 14.—Mary Leilson, aged 25, of Philadelphia, while dining with a party of friends here Tuesday afternoon, in response to a toast, laughingly drank a glass of carbolic acid and died soon afterward. Not one of the party suspected that the liquid was poison until its fatal results were seen. Grief at the death of her husband led to the act