Gastonia, Feb. 8—Believing that no one cared for her, Ellen Heffner, 20-year-old popular South Gastonia mill employe, borrowed a small quantity of carbolic acid from a neighbor, poured it into a cup and drank it, death following instantly.
The girls told her neighbor she wanted the acid to use on a corn with which she was suffering. While the latter was preparing to “doctor” the sore foot Miss Heffner drank the contents. She three the empty cup across a room and cried, “Give all my love to Jake Shumate.”
Neighbors and friends stated today there was no love affair between the girl and Shumate. He was in Belmont when the suicide was committed. She told a girl friend, it is said, several times she was going to kill herself, explaining that no one cared anything for her. She was a night hand, and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Bost of Caldwell County.
From page 3 of the Concord Daily Tribune, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 1926
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