Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1909 — MINING PROMOTER ENDS LIFE [ARTICLE]

MINING PROMOTER ENDS LIFE

Grief For Wife Drives Wealthy St. Louis Man to Suicide. Seattle, Aug. 6. —L. A. Lorlmore, who belonged to a prominent and wealthy family in St. Louis, shot and killed himself in a hotel here. He had been despondent since the death of his wife, who was Miss Jessie Gambrill of St. Louis. He was a mining promoter and had gone to Nome, Alaska, about ten years ago in the hope of winning his fortune.