Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1914 — Fall Kills Theatrical Man. [ARTICLE]

Fall Kills Theatrical Man.

New York, May 15.—Ho,ward Jacott, a young Californian, for ten years connected with the Shubert theatrical interests as manager, play reader and "play doctor," fell or jumped to his death from the seventh floor of his hotel. Friends said he had been suffering from neurasthenia and had recently threatened to end his life. Jacott was thirty-four years old. His father lives at Oakland, Cal.