Newton, June 21—Last night a few minutes before 10 o’clock in the back yard of J. Wilfong, Miss Muriel Cole, a trained nurse, who has been nursing Mrs. Yount since about May 1, shot herself through the heart and died instantly.
She had been alone with Mrs. Yount and was at a table writing when Dr. Glenn Long arrived on a professional visit. She went to her room for a few minutes and then passed through Mrs. Yount’s room and went into the kitchen.
A few minutes later Dr. Long and Mr. Yount went into the kitchen where the doctor was preparing a hypodermic when they heard a crash in the back yard. Dr. Long went out to investigate and found the body about 20 feet from the door. The young woman gave her last gasp just as he reached her. The pistol ball had centered the heart as accurately as it was possible to have been done.
None of her friends in Newton are able to suggest the cause of her act. In her last conversation with Mrs. Yount she told her she was going to take train No. 35 Sunday night presumably for Bluefield, W. Va., where she has been practicing her profession the last few days. But circumstances indicated that she had already planned to take her life as she did. Her trunk was found to be packed with one white evening dress left out on top of the trunk.
Near it was an unfolded note directing that she be buried in it. This note was evidently intended for her young sister. It contained a loving message to her sister and said she was tired of living.
From page 7 of the Concord Daily Tribune, Tuesday, June 22, 1926
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