Submitted by Georgia Gill-Elkins
South Bend Tribune 6/25/1923 sec 1 p. 1
6/26/1923 sec 1
p. 5
Hershberg Takes Life With Poison
Trouble With Wife End In Death
Attempts to effect Reconciliation Fails
Five tablets of strychnine filled Charles Hershberg,
age 31, today.
He died shortly after one o'clock in the Epworth
hospital, where he had
been taken by the police, who were called to his residency by his wife.
Information gathered by the police is to the effect
that there had been
trouble between Mr. and Mrs. Hershberg for some time, and that he had
been
living away from home for three weeks. Mrs. Hershberg, the police were
told,
had applied over a week ago for a divorce. This morning Mr. Hershberg
appeared
at the home and attempted to effect a reconciliation, and failing,
swallowed
the tablets.
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Funeral Notes
The funeral of Charles Hershberg, 1110 Woodward
Avenue, who died Monday
afternoon at 1 o'clock at Epworth hospital soon after taking five tablets
of
strychnine with suicidal intent, was held this afternoon at 3 o'clock at
the
Forest Hay Funeral home. Burial was in the Jewish Orthodox cemetery.