Note From Condemed Sister Causes Suicide

San Francisco Call, Volume 110, Number 128, 6 October 1911

NOTE FROM CONDEMNED SISTER CAUSES SUICIDE

[Special Dispatch to The Call]

MARYSVILLE, Oct. 5.—Letters from his sister, Georgia Logan, written from Tacoma, in which she told him that she was to be executed last Tuesday for the murder of a girl, caused Elmer Logan, a negro boy, to commit suicide Tuesday in this city. In the letters she says she killed the girl in a quarrel, and that she had been convicted and sentenced to be hanged. She formerly lived in Marysville.


Morning Union, 5 October 1911

DEATH DUE TO POISONING. MARYSVILLE

(Yuba Co.), Oct. 4. A postmortem examination of the body of Elmer Logan, the colored youth who died at the home of his aunt, Mrs. Margaret Smith at Eighth and G streets, in this city yesterday, conducted at the morgue last evening, leaves no doubt that death was due to morphine poisoning. It is the coroner's jury to decide whether the opiate was taken with suicidal intent of otherwise. The inquest will be held after an analysis of the contents of the stomach is made by the State board of health at Berkeley.


Author's note- I looked through Washington State's execution records and did not find a "Georgia Logan" that had been executed. In fact, according to the Washington State website, "Since 1904, 78 persons have been executed in Washington, none of whom were women."