SUICIDE OF MRS. JAMES (MCINTOSH) GOODIN

GOODIN, MCINTOSH, STANLEY, CORNISH

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Date: 3/6/2019 at 06:52:52

Decatur County Journal
March 2l, l90l

MRS. JAMES M. GOODIN committed suicide by cutting her throat with a razor at her home near Alvord about nine o'clock Friday morning and died in ten minutes, both carotid arteries being severed she bled to death.

Her death came as a great shock to her family who had no intimation that she contemplated the act. She had been suffering from extreme nervousness for some time and was in Princeton on Thursday and consulted Dr. G. Thompson who prescribed for her. Friday morning her daughter advised her to take the medicine that had been prescribed by Dr. Thompson and she replied she would but that it would do her no good. She went to another room where she got hold of her husband's razor and went deliberately before the looking glass and began slashing away at her throat. Her daughter discovered what she was doing at the first motion and with a scream, ran to her and caught her hand that held the razor, but she changed the razor to the other hand and made one more slash at her throat which severed both carotid arteries and with blood gushing from the ghastly wounds she turned and ran into the yard, followed by her daughter whose screams attracted the attention of her father who was at work at the barn. He ran with all speed to his wife, who by this time had sank to the ground in a faint from loss of blood. MR. GOODIN gathered her in his arms and held her until life was extinct and was deluged with her life blood.

MRS. GOODIN's maiden name was MCINTOSH, and she has a number of relatives of that name in Mercer County. She was a sister of WM. MCINTOSH, of Davis City, Ia., and John MCINTOSH of this county. She had two married daughters, MRS. STANLEY, of Saline, and MRS. CORNISH, of St. Joseph, all of whom were present at her funeral Saturday which was largely attended despite the terrible rain storm that prevailed nearly all day.

The bereaved family have the deepest sympathy of their neighbors and friends.

--PRINCETON TELEGRAPH.
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