Raleigh, Nov. 3—Mrs. Ada Wells of Semora was found dead at State hospital this morning. She had hanged herself.
She used some of the machinery of her jacet to do the work of death. She had been here only four days. She came here from Person county with a suicidal mania which had shown itself for five months. The jacket as a means of restraining was applied. The woman in some way worked these devices around to her neck and either strangled or killed herself by breaking her neck. Miss Hattie Frasier, night nurse, found her about 6 a.m.
The nurse tried to release her, and Coroner Warring might have succeeded in making Miss Frasier think she had done a wrong. The coroner, overwhelmed with official sense of obligation, told Miss Frasier that the body shouldn’t have been moved. Assistant Attorney General Frank Nash suggested that it was the first duty to save the woman if she could. Miss Frasier committed no offense.
The dead woman was committed October 28th. She was 40 years old.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Nov. 4, 1926
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