Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1911 — SON FINDS FATHER DYING [ARTICLE]

SON FINDS FATHER DYING

Rushville Man Takes Life After Wife Sues for Divorce. Rushville, Ind., May 5. —Reuben Cregor, living near Falmouth, committed suicide by emptying the contents of a double-barreled shotgun in his head, dying almpst instantly. ! His son Arthur, thirteen years old, who was mowing the front lawn when his father discharged the gun, found his father in a death struggle. The child, frightened, ran screaming to the home of his older brother near by, was barely able to speak the few

words telling them of his father’s condition. Cregor and his wife had been separated fcr several weeks, and the latter filed a suit for divorce last Thursday, alleging failure to provide and asking custody of their children.