Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1912 — KILLS SELF WHILE ON VISIT [ARTICLE]

KILLS SELF WHILE ON VISIT

Charles Smitker Fires Ballet Into Brain in Front of Mirror. Frankfort, Ind., March 23. Charles Smitker, age forty, who came here from North Dakota .to visit his sister, Mrs. Joe Anderson, of Sedalia, stood in front of a mirror at the Maggart boarding house in Sedalia and fired a bullet into his brain. 11l health is given as the cause of the suicide.