Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1910 — HOG BUYER SUICIDES. [ARTICLE]

HOG BUYER SUICIDES.

Slump In Prices Prompts Stock Buyer to Hang Himself. Crawfordsville, Ind., July 21. J. E, Wyatt, age forty-five, a stock buyer and trader living at Portland Mills, near Waveland, committed suicide yesterday by hanging himself with the trip rope used in operating the hay rack in the gable of his barn. Constant worry over prospective financial* losses brought on .by the decline in the price of bogs, a large number of which he had contracted to buy at $9 a hundred pounds for July delivery, caused him to become mentally imbalanced. His body was found by his son, Walter Wyatt. He leaves a widow and six children.