Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1913 — COUNTY TREASURER SLAVE TO WHISKY [ARTICLE]

COUNTY TREASURER SLAVE TO WHISKY

Daviess County Official Unable to Cope With Appetite Ends All by Shooting Himself. Theodore T. Jones, aged 45, republican treasurer of Daviess county, committed suicide in the woodshed at his home in Washington Tuesday. The police say that domestic trouble, due to Jones’s excessive Uss' of intoxicants, was the cause. Mrs. Jones called the police to the house Monday saying her husband had threatened the family. Jones was taken to a hotel. He returned home Tuesday, walked through the house and went to the woodshed, where he fired two shots into his body. The first was aimed at the heart, but it merely made a flesh wound. Then Jones thrust the revolver to the right side of his. head and fired again.. He died an hour later. Jones’s domestic illations had been stormy for some time Neighbors had to interfere at the home Sunday night to protect Mrs. Jones. Jones had semd as county treasurer jpr a year and two months and his bondsmen threatened to withdraw from his bond some time ago. When sober he was quiet and peaceable.

Holding that the responsibility of his bondsmen ceased with Jones’s death, Lew Core, county auditor, ordered the treasurer’s office closed until a successor could be appointed.