Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1907 — SUICIDE IN GILLAM TOWNSHIP. [ARTICLE]

SUICIDE IN GILLAM TOWNSHIP.

Anthony Caster Blows His Head Off With Shotgun Yesterday Morning. Anthony Caster, aged 59 yeaTs, a farmer residing in Gillam tp , on the Vanatta farm near the oil field, committed suicide at 4:30 a. m., yesterday by shooting bis head off with a shotgun. Mr. Caster had been shooting crows of a morning and nothing was thought of bis getting up and going out with the gun. When found his head was blown off and he had evidently placed the muzzle of the gun in his mouth and then touched the trigger. It was a clear case of suicide. The man was no doubt demented when he committed the rash deed, and is said to have been insane once or twice before this, A wife and four children are left. Funeral will be held to-morrow and burial made in the Independence cemetery in Gillam tp.