OBIT: Doris (Shaulis) SWEITZER, 1931, Somerset, Somerset County, PA

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DORIS SWEITZER

Tired of Living, She Took Poison
Married but Six Months, Young Somerset Wife Committed Suicide

  Mrs. Doris (Shaulis) Sweitzer, aged 21, wife of John Sweitzer, of Somerset, 
committed suicide at her home Monday by taking poison.
  She had been employed as a bookkeeper in the West End Garage and when she did 
not report for work Monday morning Miss Ruth Ella Wilson went to the Sweitzer 
home to learn why she did not report for work.  Miss Wilson found the doors were 
locked.  No further investigation was made until Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock 
when Mrs. Sweitzer's father, Charles Shaulis, who was attending the Somerset 
County Teachers' Institute, was notified.  Mr. Shaulis went to the Sweitzer home 
and found his daughter dead.
  On the table a note was found, which read:
  "Just tired of living.  If this is successful, it will be one of the few 
things I have done worth while.  Don't blame anyone but me, it is all my fault.  
Good-bye.  DORIS."
  Mrs. Sweitzer prepared her husband's breakfast early Monday morning and 
appeared to be in good spirits when he left for his work at Macdonaldton.
  An investigation revealed that Mrs. Sweitzer purchased strychnine a week 
before she took the fatal potion, on the pretext that she wanted to poison some 
rats at the garage where she was employed.
  Mrs. Sweitzer is survived by her husband, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles 
Shaulis, of Lavansville, and three sisters - Ruth, Mabel and Pearl - all at 
home.  She had been married but six months.
  Funeral services were conducted Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock in the 
Lavansville Lutheran Church.  Interment in the church cemetery, in charge of 
Undertaker Charles R. Hauger.

Meyersdale Republican, December 3, 1931