Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1909 — MATTY’S BROTHER USES GUN [ARTICLE]

MATTY’S BROTHER USES GUN

Belief Lafayette Student’e Mind Wae Hurt by Overstudy. Bcranton, Pa., Jan. 15. “Nick” Mathewson. brother of the famous New York ball pitcher, and himself a promising pitcher, shot himself in the right temple evidently with suicidal intent He was a student at Lafayette college, Easton, and had been home ill for two weeks, and it is thought that overstudy unbalanced his mind. The wound is a dangerous one.