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 1870 - 1885 (~ 15 years)
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| Name |
FILBERT, Cordelia |
| Born |
Jul 1870 |
| Gender |
Female |
| Died |
25 Sep 1885 |
| Person ID |
I97 |
Hans Georg Spang |
| Last Modified |
2 Aug 2015 |
| Family |
SPANG, Robert William, b. 13 Sep 1845, Reading, Berks Co., PA  , d. 1910, Reading, Berks Co. PA (Age 64 years) |
| Last Modified |
2 Aug 2015 |
| Family ID |
F67 |
Group Sheet |
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| Notes |
- Philadelphia Inquirer -- September 26, 1985
SUICIDE
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Unfortunate Result of a Libel Case in Reading.
Reading, Sept. 25 --- A suit for slander brought by Mrs. Robert A. Spang, of this city, was decided yesterday by the jury in favor of the defendant. Mrs. Spang, the plaintiff, who was intensely excited over the case, took the result very much to heart, saying that the verdict made her all that the defendant had alleged against her. The defense was not that the alleged slander was true, but that the defendant had not used the language, and in his charge the judge directly and explicitly stated that if the jury, after considerig all the facts, brought in a verdict of the defendant, such verdict could not at all be construed as setting forth that Mrs. Spang was the sort of person Miss Harvey was alleged to have said she was. Judge Hagenmen said the defense did not put in a plea of justification by saying that the allegations were true. On the contrary, the defendant declared she never made use of such expression, in as much as Mrs. Spang was a respectable lady.
Not withstanding all this Mrs. Spang could not be consoled. She made threats that she would take her own life, but Mr. Spang did not at first pay serious attention to them. He thought that his wife was merely excited, and would cool down as time passed on, and she would forget her unfortunate experience in court.
Mr. Spang guarded her as much as possible, and kept a watch over her until they retired at nine o'clock last night. An hour afterward, or about 10 o'clock, he suddenly wakened, and ws startled to find her gone from his side. He called her by name, when she answered him from downstairs. He struck a light, and found her sitting in the front room. By kind persuasions he induced her to go back with him. He reasoned with her not to give herself such concern about the matter, and the husband, tired and warn out, then again fell asleep.
At three o'clock this morning, he was awakened by his wife calling him. He found that she was gone from their bed. She was downstairs lying on the lounge, and appeared in terrible agony. To him she confided all -- how she had taken poison, and that she desired to die. The husband, with all possible haste, summoned a physician, who applied all known remedies, but the poison had taken too deep a hold on her system, and at four o'clock she died.
When questioned as to what she had taken Mrs Spang pointed to a table drawer, and here a box of rat poison was found. The box was half empty, but Mrs. Spang stated that she had only taken half a tabelspoonful.
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