Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 277, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1917 — Lafayette Schoolboy Takes His Own Life [ARTICLE]

Lafayette Schoolboy Takes His Own Life

Suffering from a mental depression caused by the knowledge that he was resting under a suspicion of the theft of SIOO that disappeared from the high school office in Lafayette some time ago, George W. King of that city Thursday afternoon swallowed sufficient quantity of carbolic acid to cause his death. In a note written just before the rash act was committed and addressed to his mother, the youth asserted his innocence and denied having anything to do with the money. His closing sentence was, “Mother, believe me that I did not take the money.”