Millie Cooper

COOPER

Posted By: Cyndi Vertrees (email)
Date: 11/4/2011 at 09:01:10

Millie Cooper
Lake City Graphic
Lake City, Iowa
Nov 14, 1901

Millie Cooper, the postmistress clerk at Manson, who recently leaped from the I. C. bridge over the Des Moines river at Ft. Dodge, and was rescued with slight injuries, placed the muzzle of the 22 caliber rifle in her mouth and fired a fatal shot last Friday. Insanity is hereditary in the Cooper family.

Lake City Graphic
October 24, 1901

Millie Cooper, assistant postmistress of Manson, became demented last Thursday and jumped from a railroad bridge into the Des Moines river at Ft. Dodge, a distance of forty feet, sustaining no injuries.