Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1901 — Crazed by Spouse's Death. [ARTICLE]

Crazed by Spouse's Death.

Mrs. R. Gates Rice, a wea Tilly resident of St. Joseph, Mich., and a wellknown society woman, became Insane Friday from grief over the loss of her husband, who dropped dead in the streets there recently. She left home in the early morning and went three miles south of the city, where she lay down on the Pere Marquette railroad tracks and waited for a train to come and kill her. Mayor Nelson C. Rice, the unfortunate woman’s brother-in-law, organized a searching party when her disappearance was noticed and the countryside was scoured. J. L. Cox had discovered the woman lying on the tracks and took her to his home, where the mayor and his party found her. Mrs. Rice recently created a sensation at St Joseph by paying up the entire indebtedness of St Paul’s Episcopal church.