Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1911 — SUICIDE IN NEWTON CO. [ARTICLE]

SUICIDE IN NEWTON CO.

Thomas Hall, Aged 23, Shuffles Off Via the Carbolic Acid Route. Thomas Hall committed suicide Thursday morning at his home in Washington township by drinking carbolic acid. He was a son-in-law of Frank Martin, was 23 years old> and leaves a wife and one child. The bofy was not found until late in the afternoon, and Coroner Wickersham of Goodland was immediately summoned. Facts disclosed at the inquest left no doubt as to the manner of death. Burial was made Saturday at Morocco. —Kentland Enterprise. HAS “HUNKIES” AT WORK. Purtelle Brings In Railroad Builders From Chicago. Eugene Purtelle, the electric railroad promotor, brought in a bunch of sever? “Hunkies” from Chicago Wednesday night and' they are now' at work south of town, on the clearing of the right-of-way on the J. L. Brady farm and cement abutments for a bridge over the Hoover slough. He could get no labor here, he states, and has found it hard to get the Hunkies to leave the city, even, to come to a dry town, but he expects to get more here as soon as possible. Of course what little has been done so far doesn’t amount to much, but perhaps it may be a starter for something better and not be the bluff that the great majority of people think it is.