Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1910 — FARMER COMMITS SUICIDE [ARTICLE]

FARMER COMMITS SUICIDE

His Body Found in Bam, Hanging by Halter Strap. \ inamac. Ind.. November,-29. —C’.arles Messman. a farmer livintj -ix miles west of here, comnritied suicide last night in his bar;: with a halter strap. When his body was found by his wife it ‘ was hanging. against t.he wall </f rhe 'barn. Net seeing the -tray she . thought her husband had been attacked by a fainting spell and did not kir w he was deal until neighbors attempted to remove the body. No reason is known L r his act. He had been married -ix weeks on the day of hi> death. He was sixty yea - old.