Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1908 — POISONING SUSPECTED [ARTICLE]

POISONING SUSPECTED

30 ' Coroner at Lafayette Investigating Rich Farmer's Death. Lafayette, Ind.,Dec. B.—Coroner Guy P. Levering Is making rigid inquiry into the death of Etham Meharry, a wealthy retired farmer, who died very suddenly with symptoms of strychnine poisoning. Meharry ate a hearty dinner and worked about the hpuse. Later in the day he went for a bucket of coal, and after carrying it into the house he threw himself on the kitchen floor, saying he was very sick. Before the physician summoned arrived the man died in convulsions. Meharry was a thirty-second degree Mason and owned much valuable land la this county. He was married twice, the second wife surviving.