Helen Shoemaker suicide, 1936
New Jersey Courier 13 Sep 1936
Mrs. Helen Shoemaker, 36, of Jacques Bridge, near Atco, a patient for the past year in the Burlington County Insane Law, at New Lisbon, committed suicide late Sunday afternoon by hanging herself in her room at the institution. Miss Florence Frantz, a nurse, found the woman hanging at about 4:30 o'clock. Mrs. Shoemaker had made a noose of a strap, the end being fastened to the top of a screen at the window. Artificial respiration was applied by the nurses for some time. She was finally pronounced dead by Dr. H. E. Longsdorf, asylum physician. Coroner George A. Whomsley, of Burlington, following an investigation, issued a certificate of death by suicide. A husband, Theodore, survives.
Mrs. Helen Shoemaker, 36, of Jacques Bridge, near Atco, a patient for the past year in the Burlington County Insane Law, at New Lisbon, committed suicide late Sunday afternoon by hanging herself in her room at the institution. Miss Florence Frantz, a nurse, found the woman hanging at about 4:30 o'clock. Mrs. Shoemaker had made a noose of a strap, the end being fastened to the top of a screen at the window. Artificial respiration was applied by the nurses for some time. She was finally pronounced dead by Dr. H. E. Longsdorf, asylum physician. Coroner George A. Whomsley, of Burlington, following an investigation, issued a certificate of death by suicide. A husband, Theodore, survives.
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