Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1907 — A CASE OF SUICIDE. [ARTICLE]

A CASE OF SUICIDE.

Henry J. Sanders, of Parr, Cots Bis Throat With a Razor. There was a casi of suicide near Parr, latfe Saturday night, or early Sunday morning, j The victim was Henry J. Sanders 1 who lived with his son, Levi, on the Levi Renicker larm, about three-quarters of a mile east of Pari*. He was a widower and had been liv,ng alternately with his two sons, one at Vincennes and the other at Parr. At this time he had been with Levi about six weeks. He wan iD poor health froir Brights disease ard rheumatism. At just what time he committed the act :s Dot known. His son attended the Odd Fellows lodge at Parr Saturday night, and is confident his father was in his room up stairs wnen he came home at 10 o’clock. Sunday morning they sought to call him for breakfast, about 6 o'clock, but found hie room empty. They became alarmed at once, and called their near neighbor, J. N. Gunyon, by telephone, and he and Levi began a search of the premises, and soon found him near a corn crib, resting face down on his hands aud knees, with a fearful gash in his throat, which had severed the jugular vein and the carotid artery, and partly severed the windpipe. He had evidently oeen dead several hours. The in strument With which he had done the act was an old-fashioned razor which was lying near him on the ground. He was born May 11, 1849, and therefore lacked but 27 days of being 58 years old. He leaves no children except the two sons. Coroner Wright held an inquest Sunday, and his verdict will be that his death was by suicide. His funeral will be church Tue-day, at 10 a. m., by Rev. B. F. Feignson, ana interment will be made here in Weston cemetery.