OBIT: Alta ZULLINGER, 1916, of Chambersburg, Franklin County, PA

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Committed Suicide

Chambersburg Woman Hangs Herself in Philadelphia Asylum

Mrs. Alta Zullinger, forty seven years old, whose relatives live in
Chambersburg,  hanged herself to a bed post in the Friends' Asylum, at
Philadelphia, Monday. Mrs. Zullinger had been a patient in the asylum for four
years. She suffered from melancholia, according to physicians who attended her,
and was closely guarded day and night. A nurse looked in her room at 6:15
o'clock Monday morning and saw Mrs. Zullinger asleep. The nurse had occasion to
go to another part of the building and upon returning to Mrs. Zullinger's room
ten minutes later saw her hanging from the bed post. She had torn a strip of
muslin from a bed sheet, the physicians said, and after tying one end over the
post made a noose of the other end and put it around her neck. She dropped to
her knees and was strangled. The nurse sounded an alarm and an attendant who
responded but the noose and summoned several physicians. A spark of life
remained and doctors worked hard to revive Mrs. Zullinger, but she died while
they were attempting to induce respiration. The physicians did not relax their
efforts to save her until an hour or more after she had apparently stopped
breathing.

The Gettysburg Times, Gettysburg, PA, 25 January 1916