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Show -SUICIDE IN A SLOUCH. 8ad Act or a Mlnlter' Wife Btuau of Hom.alokne.ii. St. Paul, Oct. 25.-Lena Becht came to this country from Germany 8 weeks ago to be married to the Rev. "Dr. Lang-holtz, Lang-holtz, a Lutheran minister of Morgan, Minnesota. The ceremony was duly performed on September 25, .and ever since the couple has lived apparently quite happy. At times her ,husband noticed that she would go up stairs in their little house and weep, no doubt due to the fact that she was hon.esick. Last night she left the house while her husband was in the front room in his study. Arrangements had been previously pre-viously made that, after she had com- j pletea her housework they were ti take a walk up the street. She did not put in her appearance at the study, and the husband leisurely walked into the kitchen only to find his wife gone. He immediately instituted search and then notified neighbors, and soon the entire town and surrounding farmers were on the hunt. As a party were searching about a large slough some two miles from Morgan, they found the woman dead in a few inches of water. Homesickness, no doubt, caused her to commit suicide. She was 20 years old. |