Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1914 — AGED MAN TAKES HIS OWN LIFE [ARTICLE]

AGED MAN TAKES HIS OWN LIFE

E. A. Gillette Kills Himself in Ft Wayne Bank. CROWD WITNESSES SUICIDE Before Shooting Self, Man Leaves Note With Teller Addressed to Wife, Telling Why He Committed the Deed. Fort Wayne.—Overburdened with illness which had continued for a number of years, E. A. Gillette, sixty years old, committed sui-cide-by shooting himself in the head while in the banking room of the Tristate Loan & Trust company. The deed was committed in the view of a half hundred persons. Before shooting himself he left a note with one of the tellers addressed to his wife, telling why he committed suicide and what undertaker he desired to have bury him. Death Is Family’s Fourth Tragedy. Shelbyville.—The death of Clarence Yager, fourteen years old, who died as a result of the accidental discharge of his shotgun while hunting squirrels, is the fourth tragedy in the family in recent months. His stepfather, Alonzo Moore, hanged himself; his brother died suddenly soon afterward, and James Pherigo, a young man who had come here from Florida to marry a sister, Miss Marie Yager, died suddenly® at she Yager home the night before the day set for the wedding. The boy’s mother has been an invalid and it is believed the shock of his death will prove fatal to her. The boy’s last words were: “Tell the boys to be more careful.’’