HUMAN SUFFERING

A Young Lady's Desperate Deed Because of Her Betrayal

 A Suicide by Eating the Poisoned Ends of Matches

 Standard Special-SF Chronicle Service

Ironton, O., July 10-Lucinda Jackson, a beautiful girl of nineteen and daughter of wealthy parents, committed suicide early this morning in a curious manner. The young woman procured a box of matches, taking them to her room; she ate the poisonous ends and died in great agony at about 5 o'clock, despite the efforts of the physicians to revive her. The parents of the young girl are heartbroken over the sad affair. The father is threatening vengeance on a young Chicago man, who is suspected of being the cause of the young victim’s desperate deed.

Ogden (UT) Standard Examiner July 11, 1890