Ends Her Life At End Of A Rope
Solem Township Girl Leaves Letter Telling Where to Find Her
Jenny Lindberg of Solem township, aged twenty years, didn't care to live any longer. Her sweetheart died a year and a half ago and the world had seemed dark to her her since. So she hung herself Monday night to the limb of a tree on the Gustafson farm in that township. The unhappy girl was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Lindberg of Solem township. She had been working at the John C. Johnson home up to a few days before her rash act and had been friendly with Otto Gustafson, who lives nearby with his bachelor uncle. She had quit working at Johnson's and said she was going to South Dakota where she could get higher wages. Monday evening she went over to Johnson's but he was not at home and then she went to Gustafson's and finding nobody there she went to the house and wrote a note and left it with her watch where the Gustafson's would see it when they came home. About ten-thirty that night the Gustafsons came home and found the note, which read as follows: "Dear Otto, sisters and brothers and parents. I'm leaving this world tonight at eight o'clock. I was over to Johnson's but he was not at home. So good bye-bye. I'm hanging me now north of the barn. The world has been so dark for me about a year and a half." There was no signature to the note but it was addressed to Otto Gustafson on the outside. The Gustafsons went out at once to look for her and found the girl hanging, as she had said she would, to the limb of a tree a few rods north of the barn. She had stood on a nail keg and tied the rope to a limb and then stepped off the keg. The weight of her body stretched the rope so much that her feet would have touched the ground, but she bent her knees and was strangled. Funeral services will be held today, Thursday, at 12:30 o'clock from the Oscar Lake church; Rev. Alex Peterson having charge.
(Park Region Echo, Aug. 12, 1926)