OBIT: Lena SCHAEFER, 1886, Johnstown, Cambria County, PA

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A Suicide at Johnstown.

  On Wednesday afternoon Lena Schaefer, of Johnstown, committed suicide 
by swallowing the contents of a box of Rough on Rats.  At 11 the same 
night she died.  The coroner's jury after examining a number of 
witnesses returned a verdict that deceased came to her death "by taking 
a certain poison known as "Rough on Rats."  A letter written by her to 
her friends was found in a glass case in her room.  In the note she bid 
good-bye to all and said she had had bad luck in her time.  She desired 
to be no expense to any one and further that she did not want her 
parents to see her after her death.  The deceased was not over 17 years 
old, but had led a fast life and was well known in police circles.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., January 21, 1886