Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1912 — Suicide Wills Razor to Son. [ARTICLE]

Suicide Wills Razor to Son.

Frankfort, June 6.—Thomas E. Crute, sixty-eight years old, committed suicide in the T. P. A. park in this city by drinking carbolic acid. He was fpund in an unconscious condition by park attendants, but died before medical aid could reach him. A note found in the dead man’s clothing was addressed to his employer and. read: “G. S. Coombs, R. R. 2. Give everything belonging to me to my son, Lewis. I will be dead on June 1. Notify him. Good-by everyone. Give Lewis my razor, shoes, overcoat and anything you can find that belongs to in?. 1 am done with this world. T. E. C.” Crute had been heavily for several weeks.