Suicide of Sarah Tucker, 1906

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New Jersey Mirror 11 Apr 1906:
The funeral took place on Monday. Discharging a shotgun with a strip of wood she had taken from a box, Sarah Tucker, the eighteen-year old daughter of Samuel Tucker, a farmer between this place and Chesterfield, committed suicide by blowing off the top of her head as she sat propped up in bed on Friday afternoon The young woman appeared to be in good spirits about 2 o'clock and her father can give no reason why she should have committed the rash act. No one was in the house at the time the gun shot was fired, Mr. Tucker having been working in the field. Coroner DeWorth, of Bordentown, viewed the body and gave a burial permit.
Location: Chesterfield Township, NJ, USA

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