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Hillsdale Standard, June 5, 1883

Received by the Hillsdale Co. Historical Society, Oct. 1989


SUICIDE

One of those melancholy cases of suicide occurred in this city Sunday 
night last.  Mrs. Henry Jones who resides on West St., near railroad 
st., was found Monday morning lying beside the railroad track, a few 
rods west of the gas factory with one side of her head crushed, her 
body lying three feet from the rail, no injuries were found on her body.  
As we are informed by one of her family, the deceased has been ill for 
the past four months, and of late has become melancholy and despondent.  
Sunday evening about 8 o’clock her husband and son helped her from her 
bed to a lounge while her bedding was being changed, she being so 
feeble as to be unable to leave her bed or walk across the room without 
help. About (illegible) o’clock the family retired. About one o’clock 
in the morning her husband discovered she had left the bed; not finding 
her in the room or house, he and his son searched about the streets 
without success. The engineer of the early morning freight from the 
west first discovered the body lying beside the track. How she got from 
her house to the place where found, nearly half a mile unassisted 
through the streets, the track being several rods from the street, and 
in the darkness of the night is unaccountable.

It is supposed she was killed by the 11 p.m. train going west Sunday 
night, as no other train passed either way from the time she was known 
to be at home until she was discovered.  The coroner’s jury are 
summoned to meet last evening after the STANDARD went to press. The 
engineer and fireman on the west bound train being summoned to appear, 
although they have no knowledge of the sad affair, and find no marks of 
evidence on their engine.
She was 53 years old, and leaves a husband, one son and two daughters, 
the son and one daughter, about 14 years old residing at home, the 
eldest daughter, Mrs. C. Strunk resides in Crawford county. The funeral 
will take place from the family residence this Tuesday afternoon.