Sunday, April 10, 2022

Louise Greenwall Ends Life by Drinking Poison, April 10, 1922

Charlotte Woman Ends Life by Poison Route

Charlotte, April 8—Mrs. Louise Greenwall, formerly of Wilmington but recently of Charlotte, committed suicide Thursday by drinking a bottle containing three ounces of lysol (?).

“She was jealous of her lover,” was the remark attending physicians heard on entering the house. Her husband is said to be serving a sentence for white slavery at Winston-Salem. She has two young children and is said to be 23 years old. The man she was said to be jealous of lives here. She has been married twice.

From the front page of The Greensboro Patriot, published every Monday and Thursday, April 10, 1922

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