Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1911 — MINER KILLS HIMSELF [ARTICLE]

MINER KILLS HIMSELF

Shoot* Bullet into Head When He : Hear* Tales of Wife. Terre Haute, Ind., June 9.—Henry Harper, coal miner at Hymera, who was married a month ago to a waitress, picked up a revolver from behind the bar and asked Saloonkeeper Gambill whether it was ‘ self-act-ing.” As Gambill replied Harper shot himself in the head. He died instantly. “Every time he came here from Hymera to see me he heard tales about me, and he believed them,” said his wife.