Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1919 — DELPHI BARBER ENDS LIFE IN CAPITAL. [ARTICLE]

DELPHI BARBER ENDS LIFE IN CAPITAL.

Charles Sharp, 2% years old, a barber of Delphi, Ind., committed suicide yesterday afternoon by throwing himself in front of an inbound East Tenth street car at Tenth street and Parker avenue. Harry Sharp, a 'brother, who was standing about 100 feet from Charles when 'he plunged in the path of the car, was a witness to the act. Sharp had suffered a nervous breakdown several weeks ago and had been coming here for medical treatment. 'According to his brother Sharp has been despondent but had never intimated that he intended, to take his life. The brother said Sharp had been spending a week with a sister, Mrs. Bert Gerrard, of Lafayette, Ind. and that he went there today to bring him here (for a treatment. He was to have gone to the Robert Long Hospital for an operation.