News: Minnie Anderson attempts suicide, 1909, York County, PA

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Young Wife Attempts Suicide

Minnie, the 20-year-old wife of William Anderson, Jr., who resides on a farm in Conowago 
Township, York County, four miles northeast of Dover, attempted suicide shortly aft 6 o’clock 
Sunday morning by cutting her throat with her husband’s razor.

For the past few weeks Mrs. Anderson had worried about something unknown to her husband.  
Sunday morning she prepared breakfast and then went into the yard, in the rear of several 
outbuildings.  On the quiet she had secured his razor, and while back of the outbuildings drew 
it across her throat, making a cut five inches long, extending into her windpipe, which it 
fortunately did not cut entirely in two.  After doing the deed, she returned to the home and 
told her husband of it.  She said she did it on account of the trouble she was having with the 
baby.

Dr. J. M. Gross, of Dover, was summoned, and dressed the injury which required a number of 
stitches.  Her condition is not serious and her recovery is expected.

The Hanover Herald – Saturday, August 21, 1909