Posted by Adrienne on Tuesday, December 03, 2013 at 11:29:26 :

The Regular Suicide
San Francisco, July 27 – Miss Christine YEILLSON, a beautiful domestic, committed suicide today. She took the gas route. The cause was despondency arising from the blighted condition of her affections.

Source: The Daily Californian (Bakersfield), July 27, 1891, Page 1