Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1911 — SICKNESS CAUSES SUICIDE [ARTICLE]

SICKNESS CAUSES SUICIDE

Rev. J. D. Clark of Medaryville Shoots Top of Head from Body. w After spending many a restless night watching over Rev. J. D. Clark of Medaryville, who has bee(i sick all winter, his wife and her brother were awakened this morning shortly after two o’clock by a pistol shot and found the aged man lying prostrate with the top of his head blown from the bleeding form. Death came at once, the bullet entering just above the left eye. Many times during a harrowing sickness lasting all winter Rev. Clark had threatened to take his own life. His mind was thought to have been affected by the illness. For some time he had planned to go to the soldiers home at Marion and yesterday walked from his humble home a half mile west of Medaryville to the postoffice to see if word had come and had expressed himself as greatly discouraged by, not receiving such. About two o’clock in the night he asked to be assisted to a rocking chair saying he was too restless to sleep in bed. The gunshot followed soon after. The time for the funeral has not yet been arranged.—Winamaq Republican.». '