Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1909 — DR. BINKLEY’S GUN LEFT AT HIS HOME [ARTICLE]

DR. BINKLEY’S GUN LEFT AT HIS HOME

Finding of Revolver Tends to Disprove Suicide Theory. Evansville, Ind„ June 4. While cleaning the house of Dr. J. T. Binkley, who was found dead in a Chicago hotel, at 222 Mary street in this city, a woman employed by the physician found his revolver lying on the dresser in his room. Friends of the dead physician here assert that the finding of the revolver tends to confirm the theory that Dr, Binkley was murdered, since if he had contemplated suicide he probably would have taken his revolver with him when he left for Chicago. • Rev. H. S. Morrison, pastor of the First Avenue Presbyterian church, to which Dr. Binkley belonged, received a letter from Dr. Binkley which was written at the Wellington hotel in Chicago. Dr. Binkley asked the pastor to. send him the photograph of an automobile which Dr. Binkley had seen and which his son. Dr. John T. Binkley, Jr., Chicago, was going to for him.