Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-02
Dead by Her Own Hands.

Mrs. Jennnette Hall, Three Months E
 Wife, Hangs Herself by G Clothes
 Line to the Bedroom DOOr-A Victim
 of HysteEtcal Mania.
 A particularly sad case of suicide occurred in this city Saturday. One of the kindest of husbands was called upon to mourn the loss of young wife who had taken her life by her own hand. They had been married but three mozths, and had lived amicably and lovingly together, although from her bridal day the wife seemed to have some secret source of discomfort and was at no time in good health. Her name was Jeannette Mitchell, and Glasgow, Scotland, was the place of her birth and her parents are now living there. She has relatives living in this country, being cousin of David Mitchell, the newsletter, and of the wife of Charles F. Root, of the firm of Barnum & Root. For several years previous to her marriage she had been employed in the store of Adam & Taylor. Last winter she caught bad cold which never left her entirely. On February 27 she was married to James Hall, Scotch man, also from Glasgow, who had known his I wife's parents well. They went to live on Court street. The wife was unwel and on one occasion took an overdose of opium, by mistake, for tho relief of her sufferings. Last Tuesday, Mir. and Mrs. Hall moved to Charles street, No. 66, where they toek rooms. Saturday morning MT. Hall went to Savin Rock where he was doing some joiner work Returning at half past o'clock he beheld the body of his wife hanging by clothes line to her bed | ,5-z r, IL, l. ing and life wholly extinct. Almost com pletely overcome by the shock of his discov- cry he notified the authorities, and before anyone in the house knew of the terrible death that had taken place under their roof, the medical examiner had arrived and pro- nounced the woman dead of strangulation. The day before she had been singing gaiIy all day long.
 Dr. White is of the opinion that Mrs. Hall was lRboring under hysterioal mania, and that seems to be the explanation of her de- iberate and successful attempt at suicide. She took stout clothes line, fastened it to the knob of the door of her room, threw the rope over the top of the door and fastened it's end about her neck Suspended thus her feet barely touched the floor.
 A brother-in-Iaw of the deceased says of the affair: ''She was one of the best hearted little women in the world. But she did not to me seem to be in her right mind since she was married. She has acted strangely at times. Three weeks ago was called loudly by my wife into the house. I found that they had Mrs. Hall stretched out ca the floor flaming her. They told me it was something like fsint. I could not under stand it. There was strange smell around there. And they tried to keep it so quiet that knew there was something wrong They did not think she would live five minutes but the doctor pulled her out of that all right. Then the next day she went down to her relations in Orange It was thought better that she should come back here and stay with her husband. She came back. I heard that cne day she said to him when he was going to work that she could not stay there alone in the house and that he came back and re- mained in the house all day"
 Undertaken Blair took charge of the re- mains.