DEVINCENZI

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Marin Journal
Thursday, March 11, 1915
Page 5

Woman Ends Life in Fit of Insanity

While her husband and four of his employees were at work a few rods from t he house and her two little children were playing around the steps of her home in Indian Valley, three miles out of Novato, Tuesday just at noon, Mrs. Angelina Devincenzi, wife of D. Devincenzi, cut her throat from ear to ear with a razor and died before her husband could answer her screams for help.

The testimony given by the heartbroken husband at the inquest held by Coroner Sawyer an hour or so later was to the effect that the woman was subject to periods of insanity. It was undoubtedly during one of these intervals that the woman committed the act.

Devincenzi and his wife and children came from San Francisco ten days ago to attend to the spring pruning of his vineyard. They intended when this work was finished to return to the city for a few weeks. The neighborhood was shocked at the terrible and wholly unexpected act of Mrs. Devincenzi, who was well known in the thickly settled community about the ranch. Mrs. Devincenzi was but thirty-one years of age.

The remains were prepared for burial by Dr. Sawyer and yesterday were shipped to San Francisco, where services will be held Friday.

The verdict of the jury which sat at the inquest was that the woman committed suicide while temporarily insane.