Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1898 — Killed Herself. [ARTICLE]

Killed Herself.

Atlantic City, N. J., April 18. —Mrs. J. N. Burton, wife of a prominent citizen of Canton, 0., committed suicide Sunday afternoon by shooting herself through the heart. She suffered with cancer of the stomach. In a note she left to her husband she said she could bear her suffering no longer and asked forgiveness sos her act.