Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1898 — Died In the Asylum. [ARTICLE]

Died In the Asylum.

Memphis, Tenn., April I.—Alice Mitchell, the young woman who, a few years ago, created a sensation by cutting the throat of Freda Ward, an intimate friend, died Thursady morning in the state asylum at Bolivar, Tenn., where she has been confined since the trial by jury which pronounced her insane and ordered her incarceration. The cause of death is not known.