Windham County CT Archives Obituaries.....Bates, Ida M. March 1, 1925
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Unknown newspaper, Putnam, Ct., Mar. 4, 1925
Mrs. Ida Bates Is a Suicide Victim.  Found dead at home of her daughter in 
Worcester.  Despondent over ill health - Highly esteemed colored resident - 
Funeral this afternoon.
     Mrs. Ida M. Bates, colored, and well known in Putnam where she had lived 
for many years, committed suicide this Sunday at the home of her daughter in 
Worcester, where she had gone on a visit about a month ago.  She was 67 years 
old.  Despondency over continued ill health is believed to have been the reason 
for taking her life.
     She had lived on Tatem street for more than 20 years, and owned the house 
in which she lived.  After the death of her husband who was the driver of the 
stage coach between Putnam and Woodstock Mrs. Bates became a nurse and had been 
employed in hundreds of families in that capacity.  
     Several weeks ago she locked herself in her house and an entrance had to 
be forced.  She was suffering from illness then.  After she had gone to the 
home of her daughter to Worcester, Mrs. Edwin E. Smith of Avon street, her 
illness took a critical turn and she was treated in St. Vincent's hospital.
     When Mrs. Smith went to her room at 8 o'clock Sunday morning with her 
breakfast she found her dead on the floor.  She had taken the cord of a 
bathrobe, fastened one end to a bedpost, fastened the other end around her neck 
and then rolled off the bed to the floor.
     Dr. Robert J. Northbridge, who responded with the police ambulance, 
pronounced the woman dead.  Investigation by Detective Sergt. Albert R. Morphy 
(sic) revealed that Mrs. Bates had tied a bathrobe cord about her neck while 
lying in bed and then rolled to the floor.  The body was taken to the City 
hospital morgue.  Medical Examiner Frederick H. Baker said the woman had been 
dead several hours before she was found.  
     The body of Mrs. Bates was brought here and funeral services will be held 
this Wednesday afternoon in the Congregational Chapel, conducted by the Rev. 
Mr. Richards; interment at Grove Street Cemetery.

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