Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1914 — Wolcott, Town Marshal Suicides. [ARTICLE]

Wolcott, Town Marshal Suicides.

At 2 o’clock this Friday afternoon just as we had finisned printing The Enterprise, the town was thrown into a tumult of excitement when it was learned that Marshal Aaron Brown had been found at the northeast corner of the tile yard dead, with a bullet through his right temple. Mr. Brown left home this morning belore breakfast, and had not been seen since. At noon Mrs> Brown became uneasy and started out to look for him. At the C. T. Boicourt corner she

met William Watson, who said lie would go and look for him. He crime down town and made inquiry, hut no one had seen him, and going to the drug store of Spencer Bros., was trying to get Mr. Brown’s phone to see if he had returned, when it was reported on the streets that he had been found dead in the tile mill yard, which report proved but too true.

George James had gone to the tiie yard for a load of "bats’’ and found the body lying at the end of a pile of tile, on a grass plot, a bullet hole through the head just above the right eye, lying on its face, with his revolver but a few inches from his hand. ML James went to the tile mill and help was summoned front town. Undertaker Holdridge went out and brought the body to the undertaking rooms, and notified the coroner..—Wolcott Enterprise.