Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1910 — TRAIN KILLS DESPONDENT [ARTICLE]

TRAIN KILLS DESPONDENT

Typhoid Delirium Prompts Man to Seek Death Beneath Engine. Portland, Ind.. Sept 30—Theodore Olcssford 36 years old, was instantly killed when he stepped In front of a Lake Erie and Western passenger train. Every bone in his body was crushed He had been suffering from typhoid fever and wandered from his home in a delirium, drinking carbolic acid just before his fatal leap His father died last Friday Two brothers and three sisters survive