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Aged Woman Ends Life.Sioux Falls.—Owing to 111 health, which extended over a period of about two years, Mrs. Henry Falconer, aged 71, since 1881 a resident of Kingsbury county, committed suicide by swallowing a quantity of Paris green. She Is survived by her husband, a son and other relatives. She was a native of New York state. Following her marriage to Mr. Falconer in 1876 they took up their residence at New Hartford, la., and in 1881 came to South Dakota, locating in Kingsbury county, living on a farm until three or four years ago, when they took up their residence at Lake Preston. On returning home Mr. Walconer foivnd his wife in bed apparently much worse than when he had left here a few hours before. When he descov-ered that she had swallowed Paris green a physician was summoned, but could not counteract the effects of the poison. All the woman could say before she died was that she had taken the Paris green to end the pain in her head.
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Timber Lake Dewey County Advocate
Timber Lake, South Dakota, US
Fri, Aug 01, 1913
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