Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1904 — SUICIDE AT CEDAR LAKE. [ARTICLE]

SUICIDE AT CEDAR LAKE.

Otto Gersher, a young man from Chicago, committed suicide in Lassen’s dancing pavilion Saturday night by blowing out his brains with a revolver. The act was caused by some real or imaginary slight of his brother and two young women, who had accompanied the brothers to the lake. The suicide was committed in full view of many poople who were in the dancing pavilion.