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Iowa State Bystander
Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa
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In LeMars, Iowa, Mrs. August Koch attempted suicide by shooting herself in the head but continued housework until collapsing; operated on by her son Dr. Koch and Dr. Mamen, with slim recovery chances.
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LeMars, Ia., Feb. 2.—After firing a bullet from a 22-caliber revolver into her head with suicidal intent, Mrs. August Koch bound a cloth about the wound and continued to perform her household duties until she dropped from exhaustion.
Mrs. Koch lives on a farm four miles east of Akron. Fifty years of age, she has been suffering some time from ill health and has been despondent about money matters. While her husband was at the barn performing work she secured a revolver and turned it upon herself. The bullet penetrated the skull, but did not take immediate effect. When her husband returned from the barn he found her doing her work with a cloth bound about her head and the blood streaming down her side. He asked her what had happened. She told him, and then collapsed. Dr. Koch, her own son, who is practicing in Akron, was summoned, and with Dr. Mamen of LeMars performed an operation in an effort to save his mother. She is still living, but the chances for her recovery are considered very small.
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Lemars, Ia.
Event Date
Feb. 2.
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bullet penetrated the skull; still living but chances for recovery very small.
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Mrs. August Koch, 50 years old, suffering from ill health and despondent about money matters, fired a 22-caliber revolver bullet into her head on her farm four miles east of Akron. She bound a cloth about the wound and continued household duties until dropping from exhaustion. Her husband found her with blood streaming down her side. Dr. Koch, her son, and Dr. Mamen of LeMars performed an operation.