DROVE NAILS IN TO HER HEAD

Aged Arkansas Woman Used Novel

Method to Commit Suicide

The Post

July 22, 1906

Transcribed by : Tina Easley

Paragould. Ark., July 21, 1906 

 Word has been received here from Lorado. Ark  

the suicide of Mrs. Azalia Thompkins, seventy years of age, who

drove two 10 - penny nails into her head.

She was blind and partially deaf, and had once

before attempted suicide by cutting her own throat .

Tina Easley
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