Mrs. Chas. Dix, wife of a prominent and well-to-do farmer, living in the town of Rock, about nine miles south of here, committed suicide yesterday morning by shooting herself in the head. Mrs. Dix was a woman of about forty years in age and leaves her husband and three children. For about three months past she has been in very poor health and partially insane. Dr. W. H. Budge, under whose treatment she has been, has advised Mr. Dix repeatedly to have her taken to an asylum or private sanitarium, but the matter was deferred until too late. On Wednesday morning Mr. Dix prepared to drive to this city and had started, when his wife said she had forgotten something and entered the house. Her husband suspected something and followed, but too late; the fatal shot rang out and he was just in time to see his wife in the agonies of death from a wound inflicted by a revolver. A coroner's jury was called Wednesday afternoon, whose verdict at this time we have not heard. Dr. Budge was called in to give evidence in the case.
The Marshfield (Wisconsin) News, Thursday, December 17, 1896
The Marshfield (Wisconsin) News, Thursday, December 17, 1896
Mrs. Chas. Dix, wife of a prominent and well-to-do farmer, living in the town of Rock, about nine miles south of here, committed suicide yesterday morning by shooting herself in the head. Mrs. Dix was a woman of about forty years in age and leaves her husband and three children. For about three months past she has been in very poor health and partially insane. Dr. W. H. Budge, under whose treatment she has been, has advised Mr. Dix repeatedly to have her taken to an asylum or private sanitarium, but the matter was deferred until too late. On Wednesday morning Mr. Dix prepared to drive to this city and had started, when his wife said she had forgotten something and entered the house. Her husband suspected something and followed, but too late; the fatal shot rang out and he was just in time to see his wife in the agonies of death from a wound inflicted by a revolver. A coroner's jury was called Wednesday afternoon, whose verdict at this time we have not heard. Dr. Budge was called in to give evidence in the case.
The Marshfield (Wisconsin) News, Thursday, December 17, 1896
The Marshfield (Wisconsin) News, Thursday, December 17, 1896
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