Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1912 — MERCHANT ENDS HIS LIFE [ARTICLE]

MERCHANT ENDS HIS LIFE

Suicide of Owensville, Ind., Business Man Follows Fraud Disclosures. Princeton, Ind., Jan. 19. —Leslie Hunter, thirty-two years old, a business man and former school teacher, committed suicide by swallowing a quantity of strychnine at his home in Owensville. The suicide followed sensational disclosures brought to light recently in which Hunter is alleged to have forged the name of his brother-in-law, Harrv Pollard, a wealthy Montgomery township farmer, to notes for $2,500 and $1,200. He was arrested on i charges of forgery last Saturday and I relatives gave bond for his appearance in court here Jan. 25.