Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1919 — DEMOTTE BARBER SLAYS SELF [ARTICLE]

DEMOTTE BARBER SLAYS SELF

ALBERT* KNIP SUICIDED SUNDAY BY SENDING BULLET THROUGH HIS HEARJ. • z • During a moment of mental depression, Albert J. Knip, age about thirty-five' years, committed suicide at his DeMotte home Sunday by shooting himself through the heart. He expired ten minutes later.* The rash act is attributed by the wife of the deceased to violent headaches with which the deceased suffered almost continuously. Mrs. Knip stated that both she and her husband arose Sunday morning with violent headaches and that after having their breakfast Mr. Knip made the remark that they both would be better off dead than alive. ‘About noon she lay down on a couch in a front room and her husband went to the kitchen. A few seconds later she heard the fatal shot. Deceased had been a resident of DeMotte for about six years where he operated a barber shop. For threb years he served in the Amencan army, being discharged in 1913. He leaves .no children. The funeral was held at two o clock this Tuesday morning, and burial was made in the Holland cemetery. e