Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1909 — MADMAN HANGS HIMSELF [ARTICLE]

MADMAN HANGS HIMSELF

In His Ravings Tears Loose StraightJacket Straps. Des Moines, la., Feb. 12.—Martin Oberman, a crazed Austrian who fatally stabbed one and seriously injured two fellow passengers on a Great Western train, committed suicide by hanging himself with the straps with which he was bound. In his ravings he bad torn off his straight-jacket