Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 288, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1912 — PRINTER PITTS DEAD IN HOTEL [ARTICLE]

PRINTER PITTS DEAD IN HOTEL

Well Known Tourist Typo Who Once Worked Here Discovered in Last Sleep in Monon House. 'John C. Pitts, a printer who worked for some time at The Republican office some seven or eight years ago, and who had for several months been employed *by Judson Fitzpatrick onthe Francesville Tribune, was found dead Sunday just after dinner in a room in the Mojion Hotel at Monon. Pitts w r as a dope fiend and for years had been a slave to the morphine habit. On hot days he would leave his work and find a secluded place arid inject the drug into his arm and then lay and sleep off the effects. Recently he had been so unreliable that Mr. Fitzpatrick decided to discharge hiqi and he did so. Pitts left town. On Saturday night he applied for lodging at the Monon House, asking to be awakened Sunday noon. The clerk who rapped on the door could get no answer. The marshal was culled and entrance to the room w’as forced. Pitts was dead. He had no money and his burial was made at county expense. It is understood that hi§ earlier home was at Seyjnour. He was about fifty years of age.