Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1878 — Suicide. [ARTICLE]

Suicide.

On last Monday evening a messenger came to town and announced that Isaac R. Lewis, of Barkley township, had committed suicide about 11 o’clock of that day by hanging himself. Coroner Warner at once summonsed Daniel B. Miller to assist him in the capacity of clerk, and the two at once proceeded to the farm of deceased where they found the facts above staged as true. The evidence at tho inquest developed the fact that deceased hud been contemplating the act for some time—that ill health had caused a partial aberration of the mind. The act seems to have been done in order- to avoid the results total insanity which he feared was coming on him.