Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1905 — TRAGEDY AT CEDAR LAKE. [ARTICLE]

TRAGEDY AT CEDAR LAKE.

Harry Hohman Shoots His Former Sweetheart. Then Kills Himself. Cedar Lake was the scene of another tragedy Sunday afternoon. Harry Hohman, of Hammond, was engaged to marry Miss Ida Taylor, a maid employed in the Binyon hotel, on the east side of the lake. Several weeks ago Hohman went to Oklahoma prospecting, and during his absence the girl married a saloon-keeper named Jeanette of Steger, 111. Hohman learned of the marriage and came home. Sunday they drove to Cedar Lake and Hohman also went there, He met his former sweetheart on the grounds by herself, and shot and killed her, and then turned the weapon on himself and put a bullet in his temple, dying instantly. Homan was the son of prominent parents at Hammond, and was quite well to do in his own right.