Wife of Oscar Lashbrook
The Augusta Daily Gazette
Augusta, Kansas
Monday, January 29, 1917
page 1
Augusta Woman Takes Strychnine And Dies Four Hours Later
Domestic trouble was given as the cause of a tragedy at Twelfth and Osage yesterday, when Mrs. Oscar Lashbrook, aged 18, committed suicide by taking a large dose of strychnine. She lived for four hours after taking the poison, and suffered untold agonies.
Mrs. Lashbrook left a note to her mother, who lives in Oklahoma, saying that she "could no longer live with her man" and fearing to return home for fear her parents would "throw it up to her." She stated before she died that she took the strychnine on purpose.
There had been trouble at the Lashbrook home, it is said, and the husband, who is three times his wife's age, was at the barn. The wife went to a neighbor, then returned to the house, took the poison and went to the barn to tell her husband what she had done. Physicians were called but could do nothing.
The body is at the J.D. Dunsford parlors, awaiting funeral arrangements.
(transcribed by Judy Mayfield) Nov. 2021
The Augusta Daily Gazette
Augusta, Kansas
Monday, January 29, 1917
page 1
Augusta Woman Takes Strychnine And Dies Four Hours Later
Domestic trouble was given as the cause of a tragedy at Twelfth and Osage yesterday, when Mrs. Oscar Lashbrook, aged 18, committed suicide by taking a large dose of strychnine. She lived for four hours after taking the poison, and suffered untold agonies.
Mrs. Lashbrook left a note to her mother, who lives in Oklahoma, saying that she "could no longer live with her man" and fearing to return home for fear her parents would "throw it up to her." She stated before she died that she took the strychnine on purpose.
There had been trouble at the Lashbrook home, it is said, and the husband, who is three times his wife's age, was at the barn. The wife went to a neighbor, then returned to the house, took the poison and went to the barn to tell her husband what she had done. Physicians were called but could do nothing.
The body is at the J.D. Dunsford parlors, awaiting funeral arrangements.
(transcribed by Judy Mayfield) Nov. 2021
Wife of Oscar Lashbrook
The Augusta Daily Gazette
Augusta, Kansas
Monday, January 29, 1917
page 1
Augusta Woman Takes Strychnine And Dies Four Hours Later
Domestic trouble was given as the cause of a tragedy at Twelfth and Osage yesterday, when Mrs. Oscar Lashbrook, aged 18, committed suicide by taking a large dose of strychnine. She lived for four hours after taking the poison, and suffered untold agonies.
Mrs. Lashbrook left a note to her mother, who lives in Oklahoma, saying that she "could no longer live with her man" and fearing to return home for fear her parents would "throw it up to her." She stated before she died that she took the strychnine on purpose.
There had been trouble at the Lashbrook home, it is said, and the husband, who is three times his wife's age, was at the barn. The wife went to a neighbor, then returned to the house, took the poison and went to the barn to tell her husband what she had done. Physicians were called but could do nothing.
The body is at the J.D. Dunsford parlors, awaiting funeral arrangements.
(transcribed by Judy Mayfield) Nov. 2021
The Augusta Daily Gazette
Augusta, Kansas
Monday, January 29, 1917
page 1
Augusta Woman Takes Strychnine And Dies Four Hours Later
Domestic trouble was given as the cause of a tragedy at Twelfth and Osage yesterday, when Mrs. Oscar Lashbrook, aged 18, committed suicide by taking a large dose of strychnine. She lived for four hours after taking the poison, and suffered untold agonies.
Mrs. Lashbrook left a note to her mother, who lives in Oklahoma, saying that she "could no longer live with her man" and fearing to return home for fear her parents would "throw it up to her." She stated before she died that she took the strychnine on purpose.
There had been trouble at the Lashbrook home, it is said, and the husband, who is three times his wife's age, was at the barn. The wife went to a neighbor, then returned to the house, took the poison and went to the barn to tell her husband what she had done. Physicians were called but could do nothing.
The body is at the J.D. Dunsford parlors, awaiting funeral arrangements.
(transcribed by Judy Mayfield) Nov. 2021
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