Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1912 — A Suicide at Thayer. [ARTICLE]

A Suicide at Thayer.

Wm. Campbell, aged 70, a former resident of Thayer, where he came a few days ago from his home in Kentland for a visit with old friends, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head, a little after 9p. m., Monday. The act, for which there is no apparent reason, was committed near the residence of Adam Miller. The body was taken back to Kentland for burial. This was the case on which Coroner Wickereham of Goodland was called to Thayer Tuesday as mentioned in Wednesday’s Democrat..