Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1895 — SEEKS DEATH IN THE LAKE. [ARTICLE]

SEEKS DEATH IN THE LAKE.

J. P. Tillotson Takes a Fatal Plunge from a Chicago Breakwater. v J. P. Tillotson, a member of the Chicago Board of Trade, committed suicide Wednesday afternoon by throwing himself into Lake Michigan at the foot of 22d street. Financial losses, the result of an unsuccessful speculation in wheat, are said to be the cause of his self-de-struction. Policemen from the Cottage Grove avenue station recovered the body withiu a short time and tried to restore life, but were unable to do so. Mr. Tillotson was 45 years old and leaves a widow, to whom he was married only six months ago.