Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1906 — Gen. Soofield’s Son Suicides. [ARTICLE]

Gen. Soofield’s Son Suicides.

San Francisco, Aug. 7. Major and Paymaster William B. Scofield, of the regular army, son of the late Lieutenant General Scofield, U. S. A., retired, shot and killed himself in this city. Major Scofield was on a leave of absence on account of ill health, and in explanation of the suicide it is said that he feared an attack of locomotor ataxia and that he would become a burden to his wife.