Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 249, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1917 — Monon Man Shoots Himself Following Family Quarrel. [ARTICLE]

Monon Man Shoots Himself Following Family Quarrel.

Monon, Nov. 4.—Asa Donaldson, a section hand living here, is said to have remarked to him wife this morning about 8:30 o’clock, during the course of a family altercation, “Do you want me to shoot myself?” She is said to have replied, “Go ahead if you want to.” Whereupon he whipped a twenty-two calibre revolver out of his pocket, applied it to the lower left side of his jaw, and blazed away, the bullet traveling upward and lodging in the tympanum of his skull. Donaldson is known as a man of sober habits, but is credited with a violent temper when aroused and it was during a period of this kind that he performed the act which may cost him his life. He was operated upon immediately, but the outcome is not known yet. A wife and several children anxiously await the result of the operation. During the operation, the attending physician was assisted by “Red” Donaldson, a cousin of the injured man. Becoming faint at the sight of the blood, Donaldson was told by the doctor to go outside. In a moment someone rushed in and said there was another dead man outside. The doctor was forced to divert his attention from the wounded man to Donaldson, who had fainted, but ft'ho was soon revived.