Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1912 — Week of Tragedies at Monticello. [ARTICLE]

Week of Tragedies at Monticello.

Monticello has been having all sorts of excitement this week. Sunday a bright young lad, Bryan Legg, 14 years old, was drowned in the river there; Tuesday evening a young man, about 28 yeas of age, Harold Clark, committed suicide, owing to domestic troubles, by taking a dose of strychnine, and Wednesday evening, Thomas Criswell, a high school boy, attempted suicide by shooting himself in the left breast with a rifle. His aim was too high, however, and he will recover, although a hole was plowed through his breast just above the heart. A. lovers’ quarrel is said to have been the cause of the latter’s rash act.