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Subject: [MNPOLK] HEDLAND, August & Wife (xxxx-1885) Double Suicide
Date: 28 Sep 2002 21:21:30 -0600

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Surnames: HEDLAND, JENSEN
Classification: Death

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The Douglas County News, Alexandria, Minnesota,
Thursday, November 26, 1885, page 5, col. 2.

Crookston Chronicle:--On the fifth day of this month at the town of Knute, in this county, a Scandinavian farmer by the named of August Hedland, committed suicide by hanging himself to the limb of a tree in the woods about a half mile from his house. A neighbor had come in the morning to help him build a stable and it was supposed that Hedland had gone into the woods to cut a stick of timber, but when he failed to return in an hour or so search was instituted and the dead body was found hanging near the shore of Union lake on the claim of a Mr. Jensen, his neighbor. Deceased had a family composed of a wife and five small children, the youngest being only two weeks old at the time of the fathers death. When the wife was informed of the fact of her husband’s unnatural death she lost her reason, but with the assistance of the neighbors, cared for the until the 10th inst., when she too took her own life by cutting her throat and throwing herself into a ditch, where s!
he was afterwards found still alive, but only to live for a few hours.



Transcribed from microfilm copy of newspaper at Minnesota History Center, St. Paul, MN.

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