Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1910 — DETROIT MAN HANGS SELF [ARTICLE]

DETROIT MAN HANGS SELF

Wounds Mrs. Fred Singer and Later Kills Himself in Jail. Cleveland, 0., Sept. 23. After wounding Mrs. Fred Singer, in a roadhouse in Rock River Valley, at 3 o’clock Thursday morning, B. W. Yates. 52. a Detroit capitalist, hanged himself in the bull pen in the Cuyahoga county jail here. He was found suspended from an iron road by a linen handkerchief knotted about his neck. Identification was made by letters and a message to Detroit disclosed that his wife and grown sons, A. W. and H. H. Yates, believed him in Brantford, Ont He had been absent four da"ys. Mrs. Singer, who is parted from her husband, will recover.