Woman’s Suicide Note Reveals Babe’s Death
Takes Life Brooding Over Charges Concerning Disappearance of Child
Buried in Hen House
Special Dispatch to the World Herald
St. Edward, Nebraska, May 5. – Brooding over accusations whispered against her in the village in connection with the disappearance of a child born to her daughter, Goldie, 18, is said to have caused the suicide of Mrs. Joseph Fletcher, 46 years old. She shot herself in the head while her two children were in school and her husband was away from the house.
Mrs. Fletcher left a note. Its contents were not made public but are said to have revealed that the body was buried under the floor of a chicken house on the Fletcher premises. The woman also is said to have written that she did not kill the child.
County Attorney Flory made inquiry into the case. The body of the infant was found in the chicken house and buried in the St. Edward cemetery, and then the investigation was dropped.
The baby was born the latter part of February. It disappeared two days later. It has been wrapped in a shawl and buried. County Attorney Flory said that there was nothing about the body to indicate it had died from other than natural causes.
The body of Mrs. Fletcher was taken to Onawa, Iowa for burial.
The World Herald-Omaha
Friday, May 6. 1921
Takes Life Brooding Over Charges Concerning Disappearance of Child
Buried in Hen House
Special Dispatch to the World Herald
St. Edward, Nebraska, May 5. – Brooding over accusations whispered against her in the village in connection with the disappearance of a child born to her daughter, Goldie, 18, is said to have caused the suicide of Mrs. Joseph Fletcher, 46 years old. She shot herself in the head while her two children were in school and her husband was away from the house.
Mrs. Fletcher left a note. Its contents were not made public but are said to have revealed that the body was buried under the floor of a chicken house on the Fletcher premises. The woman also is said to have written that she did not kill the child.
County Attorney Flory made inquiry into the case. The body of the infant was found in the chicken house and buried in the St. Edward cemetery, and then the investigation was dropped.
The baby was born the latter part of February. It disappeared two days later. It has been wrapped in a shawl and buried. County Attorney Flory said that there was nothing about the body to indicate it had died from other than natural causes.
The body of Mrs. Fletcher was taken to Onawa, Iowa for burial.
The World Herald-Omaha
Friday, May 6. 1921
Woman’s Suicide Note Reveals Babe’s Death
Takes Life Brooding Over Charges Concerning Disappearance of Child
Buried in Hen House
Special Dispatch to the World Herald
St. Edward, Nebraska, May 5. – Brooding over accusations whispered against her in the village in connection with the disappearance of a child born to her daughter, Goldie, 18, is said to have caused the suicide of Mrs. Joseph Fletcher, 46 years old. She shot herself in the head while her two children were in school and her husband was away from the house.
Mrs. Fletcher left a note. Its contents were not made public but are said to have revealed that the body was buried under the floor of a chicken house on the Fletcher premises. The woman also is said to have written that she did not kill the child.
County Attorney Flory made inquiry into the case. The body of the infant was found in the chicken house and buried in the St. Edward cemetery, and then the investigation was dropped.
The baby was born the latter part of February. It disappeared two days later. It has been wrapped in a shawl and buried. County Attorney Flory said that there was nothing about the body to indicate it had died from other than natural causes.
The body of Mrs. Fletcher was taken to Onawa, Iowa for burial.
The World Herald-Omaha
Friday, May 6. 1921
Takes Life Brooding Over Charges Concerning Disappearance of Child
Buried in Hen House
Special Dispatch to the World Herald
St. Edward, Nebraska, May 5. – Brooding over accusations whispered against her in the village in connection with the disappearance of a child born to her daughter, Goldie, 18, is said to have caused the suicide of Mrs. Joseph Fletcher, 46 years old. She shot herself in the head while her two children were in school and her husband was away from the house.
Mrs. Fletcher left a note. Its contents were not made public but are said to have revealed that the body was buried under the floor of a chicken house on the Fletcher premises. The woman also is said to have written that she did not kill the child.
County Attorney Flory made inquiry into the case. The body of the infant was found in the chicken house and buried in the St. Edward cemetery, and then the investigation was dropped.
The baby was born the latter part of February. It disappeared two days later. It has been wrapped in a shawl and buried. County Attorney Flory said that there was nothing about the body to indicate it had died from other than natural causes.
The body of Mrs. Fletcher was taken to Onawa, Iowa for burial.
The World Herald-Omaha
Friday, May 6. 1921
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