Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1914 — MARSHAL BROWN, OF WOLCOTT, FOUND DEAD [ARTICLE]

MARSHAL BROWN, OF WOLCOTT, FOUND DEAD

Ballet Through Hoad of Town Marshal Indicates Suicide—Friday Morning. Wolciott Enterprise. At 2 o’clock this Friday afternoon just as we had finished printing The Enterprise, the town was thrown into a tumult of excitement when it was learned that Marshall had been found at the northeast corner of the tile yard dead, with a bullet through his right temple. Mr. Brown left hlome this morning before breakfast, and had not been seen since. At noon Mrs. Brown became uneasy and started out to look for him. At- the C. T. Boicourt corner she met William Watson, who said he woiild go and look for him. He came down town and made inquiry, but no one had seen him, and going to the drug store of Spencer Bros., was trying to get, Mr. Brown’s phone'to see if he had returned, When ft was reported on the streets that he had been found dead in the tile mill yard, which report proved hut too true. George James had gone to the tile yard for a load of ‘bats” and found the body lying at the end of a pile of tile, on a grass plot, a bullet hole through his head just above the right eye, lying on its face, with his revolver but a few inches from his hand. Mr. James went to the tile mill and help was sumnjoned • frbm town. Undertake: Holdridge went out and brought the body to the undertaking rooms, and notified the coroner.