REGINA KAHRS
From Der Nord Westen, 29 July 1897:
(From the correspondent in Mishicott, 27 July)
Thurs. noon Mrs. George Kahrs, Sr. was found by her husband lying on the floor in a pool of blood. An inquest determined that she had cut her own throat with a cheese knife. Last Fall she had fallen ill with a strong disease. She left a note in which she said she had had a terrible dream in which a man wanted to put her in the mental facility, and that the anxiety had led to her deed. Her body was buried in the Two Rivers Cemetery last Sunday.
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Mrs. Kahrs, mother of Mr. George Kahrs, of School section, committed suicide in a horrible manner last Thursday. When the family were all gone out of the house to the field work, the old lady got a razor and cut her throat with it. Dr. Karnopp who conducted the post mortem examination says that she seems to have made several slashes across her throat before she was helpless.
She left a message written on a slate, in which she bade her family farewell, admonished her grandchildren to obey their parents always and stating that she had no grievance whatever against anybody. She explained that the deed she was about to commit was caused by a dream, in which it appeared that on Thursday evening officers would come to the house and carry her off to an asylum. Rather than permit this, she would take her own life.
Mrs. Kahrs had long been suffering from heart disease and for many years had been unable to lie down being forced to sleep in a sitting position. Neither of the churches which had accepted the hard earned money this poor old woman and her husband had bestowed upon them during their whole life would give her Christian burial.
Manitowoc Pilot, July 29, 189
From Der Nord Westen, 29 July 1897:
(From the correspondent in Mishicott, 27 July)
Thurs. noon Mrs. George Kahrs, Sr. was found by her husband lying on the floor in a pool of blood. An inquest determined that she had cut her own throat with a cheese knife. Last Fall she had fallen ill with a strong disease. She left a note in which she said she had had a terrible dream in which a man wanted to put her in the mental facility, and that the anxiety had led to her deed. Her body was buried in the Two Rivers Cemetery last Sunday.
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Mrs. Kahrs, mother of Mr. George Kahrs, of School section, committed suicide in a horrible manner last Thursday. When the family were all gone out of the house to the field work, the old lady got a razor and cut her throat with it. Dr. Karnopp who conducted the post mortem examination says that she seems to have made several slashes across her throat before she was helpless.
She left a message written on a slate, in which she bade her family farewell, admonished her grandchildren to obey their parents always and stating that she had no grievance whatever against anybody. She explained that the deed she was about to commit was caused by a dream, in which it appeared that on Thursday evening officers would come to the house and carry her off to an asylum. Rather than permit this, she would take her own life.
Mrs. Kahrs had long been suffering from heart disease and for many years had been unable to lie down being forced to sleep in a sitting position. Neither of the churches which had accepted the hard earned money this poor old woman and her husband had bestowed upon them during their whole life would give her Christian burial.
Manitowoc Pilot, July 29, 189
REGINA KAHRS
From Der Nord Westen, 29 July 1897:
(From the correspondent in Mishicott, 27 July)
Thurs. noon Mrs. George Kahrs, Sr. was found by her husband lying on the floor in a pool of blood. An inquest determined that she had cut her own throat with a cheese knife. Last Fall she had fallen ill with a strong disease. She left a note in which she said she had had a terrible dream in which a man wanted to put her in the mental facility, and that the anxiety had led to her deed. Her body was buried in the Two Rivers Cemetery last Sunday.
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Mrs. Kahrs, mother of Mr. George Kahrs, of School section, committed suicide in a horrible manner last Thursday. When the family were all gone out of the house to the field work, the old lady got a razor and cut her throat with it. Dr. Karnopp who conducted the post mortem examination says that she seems to have made several slashes across her throat before she was helpless.
She left a message written on a slate, in which she bade her family farewell, admonished her grandchildren to obey their parents always and stating that she had no grievance whatever against anybody. She explained that the deed she was about to commit was caused by a dream, in which it appeared that on Thursday evening officers would come to the house and carry her off to an asylum. Rather than permit this, she would take her own life.
Mrs. Kahrs had long been suffering from heart disease and for many years had been unable to lie down being forced to sleep in a sitting position. Neither of the churches which had accepted the hard earned money this poor old woman and her husband had bestowed upon them during their whole life would give her Christian burial.
Manitowoc Pilot, July 29, 189
From Der Nord Westen, 29 July 1897:
(From the correspondent in Mishicott, 27 July)
Thurs. noon Mrs. George Kahrs, Sr. was found by her husband lying on the floor in a pool of blood. An inquest determined that she had cut her own throat with a cheese knife. Last Fall she had fallen ill with a strong disease. She left a note in which she said she had had a terrible dream in which a man wanted to put her in the mental facility, and that the anxiety had led to her deed. Her body was buried in the Two Rivers Cemetery last Sunday.
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Mrs. Kahrs, mother of Mr. George Kahrs, of School section, committed suicide in a horrible manner last Thursday. When the family were all gone out of the house to the field work, the old lady got a razor and cut her throat with it. Dr. Karnopp who conducted the post mortem examination says that she seems to have made several slashes across her throat before she was helpless.
She left a message written on a slate, in which she bade her family farewell, admonished her grandchildren to obey their parents always and stating that she had no grievance whatever against anybody. She explained that the deed she was about to commit was caused by a dream, in which it appeared that on Thursday evening officers would come to the house and carry her off to an asylum. Rather than permit this, she would take her own life.
Mrs. Kahrs had long been suffering from heart disease and for many years had been unable to lie down being forced to sleep in a sitting position. Neither of the churches which had accepted the hard earned money this poor old woman and her husband had bestowed upon them during their whole life would give her Christian burial.
Manitowoc Pilot, July 29, 189
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