Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1907 — SUICIDE OF FORMER JASPER COUNTY BOV. [ARTICLE]

SUICIDE OF FORMER JASPER COUNTY BOV.

Lloyd, the 15-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Pullins former residents of Gillam Tp„ in this connty, committed suicide last week by shooting himself in the breast with a shotgun. The family now reside near DeSrnet, So. Dak., and it seems the lad had a few words with one of his brothers daring the morning and left the field in which he was at work and went to the house. He went into the room where the shotgun was kept, broke a hole through the window screen and set it outside the* house, put a couple of loaded shells in his pocket and went outside and picked up the gun and started off. In reply to an inquiry from his mother, he said he was going to shoot a duck. Soon after a faint report of the gun was heard, but the boy did not return for dinner, and in the afternoon a search was made,which was kept up all night by the family and neighbors. About lOo’clock next morning his body was found under a tree about a mile from the house. He had placed the gun in the crotch of the tree, untied his shoelaces and fastened to the trigger, then sat down with the gun at hiß breast and pulled the trigger. A great hole was torn in his breast and the charge entered his heart, causing instant death.