Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1912 — RUTTER WILL RECOVER [ARTICLE]

RUTTER WILL RECOVER

Traveling Salesman, Who Attempted Suicide at Lafayette, Is Improving. Lafayette, Ind., March 20. —“To the people of Lafayette: This is my last., When this is found 1 will be dead. Give my body to some medical college. I want nothing said over it, no tears nor flowers either.’’. This was the contents of a note found in the room of William D. Rutter, a traveling salesman, at the St. Nicholas hotel yesterday a short after he was found writhing in convulsions on his bed, having taken a quantity of strychnine. It had been supposed that Rutter took the deadly drug accidentally, mistaking it for qulnnine. The note, however, showed that he contemplated suicide. Rutter was still conscious when found and said he had purchased the strychnine to kill a dog. He was hurried to 4 hospital. Last night he rallied, regained consciousness, and it is believed he will recover. Rutter formerly was a well-to-do farmer, living in Benton county. He left three sealed letters. One was addressed to Mrs. H. E. Rutter, Pine Village, Ind., and two to his son, John P. Rutter of Altus, Okla. Rutter and his wife have been separated for a number of years.