Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1909 — BANKER LEAPS INTO OCEAN [ARTICLE]

BANKER LEAPS INTO OCEAN

Ends Life by Cutting Throat After He x Is Saved From the Sea. Antwerp, Aug. 3.—Charles Brown, banker of Buffalo, N. Y., committed suicide by cutting his throat on board the steamer Vaderland. Brown was suffering from melancholia, the effect of a nervous breakdown. Previously he had been picked up after leaping into the sea.