Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1902 — Fowler Woman Suicides. [ARTICLE]

Fowler Woman Suicides.

Mrs. Lee Dinwiddie, one of the most prominent women of Fowler, was found dying in the bath room at her home on Saturday morning at 10 o’clock. In a supposed fit of temporary insanity she had severed one of the arteries in her wrist and bad cut her throat with a razor aud died in about one hour. She was 45 years old and leaves a husband and two children. The husband of the unfortunate woman is an attornev and is president of the Benton County bank. He is prominent in Masonic circles, being a member of Lafayette Commandery No. 3, Knights Templars, and has a great many friends in this vicinity. Mrs. Dinwiddie was also quite well known here and was a special friend of Mrs. Judge Thompson-