Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1909 — CAPITALIST KILLS HIMSELF [ARTICLE]

CAPITALIST KILLS HIMSELF

Backer of “Crookedect Railroad In World” Worried by 111 Health. Mill Valley, Cal., Oct. i.—S. B. Cushing, the financier who backed tho “crookedest railroad in the world,” — the double bow knot line to the top of Mount Tamalpals, committed suicide at the Blithedale Inn here by shooting himself. - Since suffering a stroke of paralysis last May he had been in poor health.