Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1892 — Don’t Blaim Him. [ARTICLE]

Don’t Blaim Him.

William Harman, a resident of Titusville, Pa., committed suicide a few days ago from a melancholy conviction that he was his own grandfather. Here is the singular letter that he left: “I married a widow with a grown-up daughter. My father visited our house very often, fell in love with my stepdaughter and married her. So my father became my son-in-law and my stepdaughter my mother, because she was my father’s wife. Sometime afterward

my wife had a son. He was my father’s brother-in-law and my uncle, for he was the brother of my stepmother. My fathers wjtfej—i. e., my stepdrughter—had a son. He was, of course, my brother and In the meantime my grandchild, for he w«as the son of my daughter. My wife was my grandmother, because she was my mother’s mother. I was my wife’s husband and grandchild at the same time. And as the husband of a person’s grandmother is his grandfather, I was my own grandfather.”