Kinston, May 20—Penciling a note in which she said she was “tired of everything; tired of living,” Miss Geniveve Ketchum, a 26-year-old teacher of music, shortly before noon today, swallowed 25 tablets of bichloride of mercury. Death followed in a local hospital at 5 o’clock this afternoon. Before her death the young woman is reported to have stated to a nurse and minister that a combination of circumstances caused her to commit the rash act. Domestic discord, superinduced by parental objections to some of Miss Ketchum’s companions is said to have been chiefly responsible.
The funeral services will probably be held today.
From the front page of The Enterprise, Williamston, Martin County, N.C., Tuesday, May 26, 1925
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