Mrs. Laura Hinkle, wife of D. H. Hinkle, committed suicide this afternoon by hanging herself from the banisters on the stairway of her home on Salisbury street. Mrs. Hinkle has been in very poor health for four or five months, and it is believed that despondency over her condition led to the suicide. This morning she visited a neighbor and told her that she did not believe that she would ever be any better, and refused to be convinced when her neighbor tried to cheer her up. Later in the day she paid this neighbor a second visit and told her that she thought she would feel better if she could "get everybody out of the house for the evening and just rest." Later she did arrange to have the entire home to herself. Her husband went down town and her sister, Mrs. Mattie Penry, who lived with her, also went away, and the suicide must have followed soon after their leaving.
She tied a rope around a banister rail at the head of the stairs and with the other end looped around her neck, dropped to her death. Her husband, coming home at 6 o'clock, found her. She had dropped down behind the hall curtain and was not visible when he first entered the hall, and he went out to inquire of the neighbors as to her whereabouts. A few minutes later he found the body in the hall and gave the alarm. Two physicians were summoned but she was dead when found.
Mrs. Hinkle was a sister of J. D. and T. J. Grimes, well known citizens of Lexington, and she leaves a fine family of boys, five of whom live here and one in Atlanta, Ga. She was one of Lexington's best beloved women and her tragic death has cast a pall of gloom over the entire town. Her husband, a retired capitalist, has been one of Lexington's foremost business men for many years and he has universal sympathy.
Mrs. Hinkle was well known by quite a number of Salisbrians and these were shocked when they learned of her tragic death. She was an aunt of Mr. Percy Grimes of this city and he was notified by long distance telephone last evening of her death.
Source: Salisbury Evening Post (Salisbury, NC), 30 May 1913
(submitted by Cindy Cornwell McCachern)
She tied a rope around a banister rail at the head of the stairs and with the other end looped around her neck, dropped to her death. Her husband, coming home at 6 o'clock, found her. She had dropped down behind the hall curtain and was not visible when he first entered the hall, and he went out to inquire of the neighbors as to her whereabouts. A few minutes later he found the body in the hall and gave the alarm. Two physicians were summoned but she was dead when found.
Mrs. Hinkle was a sister of J. D. and T. J. Grimes, well known citizens of Lexington, and she leaves a fine family of boys, five of whom live here and one in Atlanta, Ga. She was one of Lexington's best beloved women and her tragic death has cast a pall of gloom over the entire town. Her husband, a retired capitalist, has been one of Lexington's foremost business men for many years and he has universal sympathy.
Mrs. Hinkle was well known by quite a number of Salisbrians and these were shocked when they learned of her tragic death. She was an aunt of Mr. Percy Grimes of this city and he was notified by long distance telephone last evening of her death.
Source: Salisbury Evening Post (Salisbury, NC), 30 May 1913
(submitted by Cindy Cornwell McCachern)
Mrs. Laura Hinkle, wife of D. H. Hinkle, committed suicide this afternoon by hanging herself from the banisters on the stairway of her home on Salisbury street. Mrs. Hinkle has been in very poor health for four or five months, and it is believed that despondency over her condition led to the suicide. This morning she visited a neighbor and told her that she did not believe that she would ever be any better, and refused to be convinced when her neighbor tried to cheer her up. Later in the day she paid this neighbor a second visit and told her that she thought she would feel better if she could "get everybody out of the house for the evening and just rest." Later she did arrange to have the entire home to herself. Her husband went down town and her sister, Mrs. Mattie Penry, who lived with her, also went away, and the suicide must have followed soon after their leaving.
She tied a rope around a banister rail at the head of the stairs and with the other end looped around her neck, dropped to her death. Her husband, coming home at 6 o'clock, found her. She had dropped down behind the hall curtain and was not visible when he first entered the hall, and he went out to inquire of the neighbors as to her whereabouts. A few minutes later he found the body in the hall and gave the alarm. Two physicians were summoned but she was dead when found.
Mrs. Hinkle was a sister of J. D. and T. J. Grimes, well known citizens of Lexington, and she leaves a fine family of boys, five of whom live here and one in Atlanta, Ga. She was one of Lexington's best beloved women and her tragic death has cast a pall of gloom over the entire town. Her husband, a retired capitalist, has been one of Lexington's foremost business men for many years and he has universal sympathy.
Mrs. Hinkle was well known by quite a number of Salisbrians and these were shocked when they learned of her tragic death. She was an aunt of Mr. Percy Grimes of this city and he was notified by long distance telephone last evening of her death.
Source: Salisbury Evening Post (Salisbury, NC), 30 May 1913
(submitted by Cindy Cornwell McCachern)
She tied a rope around a banister rail at the head of the stairs and with the other end looped around her neck, dropped to her death. Her husband, coming home at 6 o'clock, found her. She had dropped down behind the hall curtain and was not visible when he first entered the hall, and he went out to inquire of the neighbors as to her whereabouts. A few minutes later he found the body in the hall and gave the alarm. Two physicians were summoned but she was dead when found.
Mrs. Hinkle was a sister of J. D. and T. J. Grimes, well known citizens of Lexington, and she leaves a fine family of boys, five of whom live here and one in Atlanta, Ga. She was one of Lexington's best beloved women and her tragic death has cast a pall of gloom over the entire town. Her husband, a retired capitalist, has been one of Lexington's foremost business men for many years and he has universal sympathy.
Mrs. Hinkle was well known by quite a number of Salisbrians and these were shocked when they learned of her tragic death. She was an aunt of Mr. Percy Grimes of this city and he was notified by long distance telephone last evening of her death.
Source: Salisbury Evening Post (Salisbury, NC), 30 May 1913
(submitted by Cindy Cornwell McCachern)
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