Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1920 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Dr. James W. Karkoe, one of the most noted physicians in the country, internationally prominent, and personal physician of J. P. Morgan, was shot and almoat instantly killed Sunday at noon in plain view of a congregation which filled the fashionable St. George’s Episcopal church, New York, to capacity. The name of the assassin was Thomas W. Simpkin, an escaped lunatic from a Virginia asylum.