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Detroit Free Press
Wednesday, 23 November 1859

         A woman known as JANE NIBLACK drowned herself yesterday
       morning in the Red Mill pond at Tecumseh. She was seen on
       the bridge by MRS. ROSECRANTZ, who called her husband's
       attention to the singularity of the woman's actions. She
       was in the act of fastening her shawl around the bridge
       railing. MR. ROSECRANTZ was quite ill, but immediately
       started to ascertain what the woman was up to, suspecting
       her purpose. When he reached the bridge the woman was
       floundering in the water. He was too ill to venture to
       rescue her, and therefore called to her, telling her to
       paddle towards the shore while he ran for help. When 
       other men arrived they found her quiet in the water, and 
       by means of ropes she was hauled to the land, but life 
       was then extinct, though she seemed to gasp once after
       she was brought ashore. It is presumed that the woman
       was deranged, as a little son, aged ten years, whom she
       leaves, says that his mother has for more than a week
       endeavored to persuade him to go with her into the pond,
       but he was afraid and would not go. She tried this also
       yesterday morning. From this it is surmised that she
       desired to destroy her son, and would have done so could
       she have induced him to go with her. She had been twice
       married, her first husband, by whose name she was known,
       having died seven or eight years since, leaving her with
       the son above mentioned. She was again married to a man
       named BRYAN, who left her, went to Indiana, and got a
       divorce, since which she has supported herself and boy
       by washing for a number of families in the village. She
       left a bit of paper pinned to her shawl, upon which she
       had written her name, and stated that she had drowned
       herself. She also wrote a letter to her sister, which
       she placed under the door of her sister's house.
        - Adrian Watchtower, Nov. 21.
        
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