Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 113, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1911 — Minister Suicides at Home in Medaryville—Ill Health Cause. [ARTICLE]

Minister Suicides at Home in Medaryville—Ill Health Cause.

Winamac Republican. After spending many restless nights watching over Rev. J. D. Clark, of Medaryville, who has been sick all winter, bis wife and her brother were awakened this morning shortly after two o’clock by a pistol shot and found the aged man lying prostrate with the top of his head blown from the bleeding form. Death came at once, the bullet entering just above the left eye. Many times during a harrowing sickness lasting all winter Rev. Clark had threatened to take his own life. His mind was thought to have been affected by the illness. For some time he had planned to go to the soldiers’, home at Marion and yesterday walked from his humble home a half mile west of Medaryville to the postofflee to see if word had come and had expressed himself as greatly discouraged by not receiving such. About two o’clock in the night he asked to be assisted to a rocking chair saying he was too restless to sleep in bed. The gunsimt followed soon after. The time for the funeral has not been arranged.