Tyna Johnson
1909
RECORD CREATED BY : TINA EASLEY
I HAVE CREATED THIS RECORD OF OBITS , THAT I WILL ALSO USE TO HELP UPDATE THE CEMETERY RECORDS WHILE RESEARCHING THE OLD NEWSPAPERS .
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MONDAY , FEB. 8, 1909 - FRONT PAGE - THE DAILY SOLIPHONE
TOOK DEADLY ACID , TO END HER LIFE
MISS TYNA JOHNSON , AGE 19 YEARS COMMITIED SUICIDE AT HER HOME LAST NIGHT (FEB.7, 1909)
DRANK AN OUNCE OF CARBOLIC ACID
BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 11 AND 12 O'CLOCK AND DIED WITHIN THIRTY MINUTES
LEFT NO REASON TO HER MOTIVE FOR THE DECEASED HAD BEEN MARRIED , BUT WAS SEPERATED FROM HER HUSBAND.
TIRED OF HER WORLDLY CAREER AND DETERMINED TOO COME TOO ENDS BY WAY OF DEATH. MISS TYNA JOHNSON MADE A SUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT OF HER DEATH BY SUICIDE LAST NIGHT TAKING A DOSE OF CARBOLIC ACID . SHE DRANK A LARGE DOSE OF THE DEADLY ACID A QUANTITY SUFFICIENT TO KILL A DOZEN PEOPLE. SHE LEFT NO MESSAGE EXPLAINING HER RASH ACT AND NO REASON OF WHY SHE COMMITTED THE DEED IS A MYSTERY , ACCORDING TOO THE STATEMENTS OF HER MOTHER AND STEPFATHER.
MISS JOHNSON WAS THE STEPDAUGHTER OF L.C. HATCHER AND DURING THE PAST FEW WEEKS OF HER LIFE , LIVED WITH HIM AND HER MOTHER AT THEIR FAMILY HOME IN NORTH PARAGOULD , NEAR THE WRAPE'S FACTORY IT WAS THERE HER SUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT OF SELF DESTRUCTION WAS ACCOMPLISHED . THE DEED WAS COMMITTED LAST NIGHT BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 11 AND 12 O'CLOCK.
AT 10 O'CLOCK SHE PREPARED A HOT SUPPER FOR A YOUNG MAN WHO BOARDS THERE AND WHO IS EMPLOYED AS A NIGHT WATCHMAN AROUND THE FACTORIES . THE YOUNG MAN FINISHED HIS SUPPER AND LEFT THE HOUSE A FEW MINUTES BEFORE 11 O'CLOCK AND MISS JOHNSON , FINISHED HER DUTIES RETIRED TOO HER ROOM , BUT DID NOT GO TOO BED FOR SEVERAL MINUTES.
DURING THIS TIME IT IS PROBABLE THAT SHE WAS IN CONTEMPLATION OF THE AWFUL ACT ABOUT TOO BE COMMITTED: SHE FINALLY RETIRED , OCCUPYING THE BED WITH JESSIE HER YOUNGER SISTER OR EIGHT YEARS. A FEW MINUTES AFTER SHE RETIRED , JESSIE WAS AWAKENED AND FOUND HER OLDER SISTER STRUGGLING AND GASPING FOR BREATH . THE LITTLE GIRL , FRIGHTENED CALLED TO HER MOTHER , WHO OCCUPIES AND ADJOINING ROOM. THE MOTHER WAS INSTANTLY AROUSED BY THE FRIGHTENED SCREAMS OF HER YOUNGER DAUGHTER AND HURRIED TOO THE SCENE.
THERE AN AWFUL SIGHT MET HER GAZE , THAT OF MISS JOHNSON IN A STRUGGLE WITH DEATH . SHE IMMEDIATELY SOUNDED THE ALARM AND SENT IN A HURRIED CALL FOR THE DOCTOR , FOR IT WAS TO LATE. AS THE UNFORTUNATE GIRL DIED TWO OR THREE MINUTES AFTER HER AWFUL CONDITION WAS DISCOVERED . AN EMPTY BOTTLE IN THE WOOD STOVE , A CUP WHICH HAD BEEN EMPTIED OF THE POISON AND THE BURNS ON THE FACE AND ABOUT THE MOUTH FROM THE DEADLY ACID , TOLD TOO VIVIDLY OF THE ACT OF DESPERATION .
DR. HALEY RESPONDED TOO THE CALL FOR AID AS SOON AS POSSIBLE , BUT MISS JOHNSON WAS DEAD , BEFORE HE ARRIVED ON THE SCENE. HE TOOK IN EVERYTHING AT A GLANCE , THE EMPTY BOTTLE , A METAL CUP ,BURNS , ETC.. UPON CLOSER INVESTIGATION DR. HALEY FOUND THE BOTTLE TWO OUNCES IN SIZE AND IS CONFIDENT THAT MISS JOHNSON TOOK AN OUNCE OR MORE OF THE DEADLY FLUID . THE VICTIM'S MOUTH AND TONGUE WERE BURNED IN A FRIGHTFUL MANNER AND SCARS ON EACH CHEEK SHOW WHERE HER FACE MADE CONTACT WITH THE POISON WHILE IN THE ACT OF DRINKING IT FROM THE METAL CUP , THE RIM OF THE CUP BECOMING WET WITH THE FLUID AND THEN COMING IN CONTACT WITH HER FACE WHEN SHE RAISED IT TOO HER MOUTH. THE GIRLS FACE WAS SWOLLEN AND WAS A SAD AND AWFUL SIGHT THAT MET THE GAZE OF THE SOLIPHONE REPORTER WHEN HE CALLED AT THE HOME THIS MORNING. DR. HALEY STATED THAT HAD MEDICAL ATTENTION ARRIVED IMMEDIATELY AFTER SHE TOOK THE POISON IT IS VERY UNLIKELY THAT DEATH COULD NOT HAVE BEEN AVOIDED , AS SHE TOOK AN ENORMOUS , DOSE OF THE DEADLY ACID.
MISS JOHNSON WAS ONLY THE AGE OF 19 YEARS OLD AND JUST BLOSSOMING INTO BECOMING A WOMAN , ALTHOUGH SHE HAD BEEN MARRIED . SHE WAS MARRIED WHEN ONLY SIXTEEN YEARS OF AGE TO FELIX MILLER. HER MARRIAGE WAS NOT A HAPPY ONE , HOWEVER , AND SHE SEPARATED FROM HER HUSBAND OVER A YEAR AGO. THE LAST HEARD OF HER HUSBAND WAS IN THE BRIGHTON COMMUNITY , AND IT IS NOT KNOWN WHERE HE IS NOW LOCATED. SINCE THE SEPARATION , MISS JOHNSON , WORKED AS A SERVANT GIRL . SHE WAS EMPLOYED AT THE HOME OF MR. AND MRS. HERBERT WOODARD AS A GENERAL HOUSE GIRL AND WORKED THERE TILL ABOUT FIVE WEEKS AGO , WHEN SHE RESIGNED AND RETURNED TOO THE HOME OF HER STEPFATHER AND MOTHER. LAST WEEK SHE RECEIVED ANOTHER OFFER FROM A DIFFERENT HOME , AND ACCORDING TOO THE STORY OF HER MOTHER , BROKE DOWN AND CRIED THAT SHE DID NOT WANT TOO HIRE OUT.
SINCE THAT TIME , AS HER MOTHER STATED FOR THE SOLIPHONE , SHE HAD BEEN IN A DEEP SERIOUS STUDY AND APPARENTLY CONTEMPLATIVE MOOD , BUT WE HAD NO IDEA SHE WAS THINKING OF SUICIDE AND DID NOT KNOW OF THE POISON WHICH SHE PROBABLY HAD HIDDEN IN THE HOUSE. THE MOTHER APPEARED BROKEN HEARTED AND TOLD THE ABOVE NARRATIVE BETWEEN SOBS . THE STEPFATHER COULD THROW NO LIGHT ON WHY SHE TOOK HER OWN LIFE .
IT BEING A SELF - EVIDENT CASE OF SUICIDE THERE WAS NO NEED FOR A CORONER'S INQUEST , AS CORONER WALK IS SICK IN THE SANTARIUM . THE FUNERAL CONDUCTED AT 4 O'CLOCK FROM THE FAMILY HOME BY THE REV. A.C. GRIFFIN AND BURIAL FOLLOWED IN LINWOOD CEMETERY.