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A Remarkable Suicide

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Parent Issue
Day
25
Month
October
Year
1878
Copyright
Public Domain
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A faithful nurse, who liad poisonedby sheer accident a patiënt in the St. Louis Female Hospital, committed suicide recéntly, after writing a letter to her motlier and sister which cannot be read without a heartache. Corrosive gubíimate was given to a young giii in place of a solntion of salts. The nurse conld not account for her blunder, and could only repeat the -words, "My God, doctor, I did it ; I alone am to blame. I have killed íier, ruined myself , and only hope it mil not ruin you." She watched beside the patiënt for several days, frcquently declaring tlnit she would live if Alice líved and die if Alice died. "Whon the poor girl breathed her last the terrorstricken nurse cried, "Don't talk to me; I'mcrazy." In an hour she was herself in the agony of death, having taken a large quantity of carbolic acid. Among the last words written to her home friends were these: "My dears, if it is God's will that she should die, then I sliall go with my victim at the same time, life for life. This is the way I make atonement. Through the night to light."

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Old News
Michigan Argus