Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1910 — BOY OF 12 TRIES SUICIDE [ARTICLE]

BOY OF 12 TRIES SUICIDE

Mother Threatens Reform School and Lad Seeks to End Life. Logansport, Ind.. July 15.—Because tils mother threatened to send him to the reform school. Verl Mooney 12 years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Mooney, swallowed the contents of a bottle of chloroform with suicidal intent and physicians saved his life with the greatest difficulty. After being reprimanded the boy went to the home of his aunt, where he secured the chloroform and swallowed it