Mother Ends Life as Her Child Plays
Camden Courier-Post, October 31, 1931
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MOTHER ENDS LIFE AS HER CHILD PLAYS
Father, Returning From Work, Finds Wife Dead in Whitman Avenue Home
Suffering from a nervous disease, a Whitman Park mother committed suicide yesterday by inhaling gas from her kitchen stove. The dead woman is Mrs. Nellie Zak, 31, of 1239 Whitman avenue. Her body was found last night by her husband, Joseph, when he returned to his home from his work. She had been dead for several hours.
Unaware of the tragedy that had entered her life the woman's daughter, Adele, 5, played in the back yard of her home "until daddy come home because mother wouldn't let her in."
Coroner William G. Moore issued a certificate of death by suicide.
Father, Returning From Work, Finds Wife Dead in Whitman Avenue Home
Suffering from a nervous disease, a Whitman Park mother committed suicide yesterday by inhaling gas from her kitchen stove. The dead woman is Mrs. Nellie Zak, 31, of 1239 Whitman avenue. Her body was found last night by her husband, Joseph, when he returned to his home from his work. She had been dead for several hours.
Unaware of the tragedy that had entered her life the woman's daughter, Adele, 5, played in the back yard of her home "until daddy come home because mother wouldn't let her in."
Coroner William G. Moore issued a certificate of death by suicide.
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