Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1912 — Suicide at Brook. [ARTICLE]

Suicide at Brook.

This Thursday morning, Ralph Boner was found dead on the south end of the depot platform, a 32-cailbre Colts revolver by his side and the contents of a chamber in his forehead, • He was stiff and had evidently laid there from early in the night, as numbers of people had heard two shots fired about ten o’clock but no investigation was made and he was Upt found until morning, when some boys who had been fishing discovered his body. It apparently was a case of suicide. Boner was a man about 25 years of age and unmarried and made his home with his mother. He was a good worker with no bad . habits and no cause Is known for the rash act. CorOner Wickersham was called over from Goodiand and is holding an inquest as we go to press.