Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 177, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1911 — SHOW HORSE HAS NEW STUNT. [ARTICLE]

SHOW HORSE HAS NEW STUNT.

Circus Animal, Suffering From Sickness, Commits Snicide. Lafayette, Ind., July 27.—Before a crowd of several hundred persons who had assembled to watch a circus unload in the Lake Erie & Western railroad yards, a big bay draft horse committed suicide. The animal had been sick for a few days, suffering great pain. Under the care of a veterinarian he was taken out of his stall in the car to be exercised. The horse made a galloping start and in an instant ran head first into the side of a freight train. He dashed his brains out and died instantly. The animal was valued at |SOO. Circus people who witnessed the accident declare it was a deliberate case of suicide.