Elgin suicides 1897

JOHNSON

Posted By: Dorothy (email)
Date: 2/18/2010 at 13:18:30

Quite an epidemic of suicides are
reported near Elgin for last week. At
Dover Mills a man and a young woman
killed themselves by taking poison and
out near Gunder one, Ole Johnson, shot
himself with a shot gun.

Elgin Echo - 22 July 1897