Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1915 — SUICIDE WEDNESDAY AT LAURA. [ARTICLE]

SUICIDE WEDNESDAY AT LAURA.

Alonzo Wallace. Section Foreman and Storekeeper Ends Lite With Shotgun. Another suicide in Jasper county, ■the first for this year, occurred about 5 o’clock Wednesday evening, when Alonzo Wallace, a storekeeper at Laura and section foreman on the 1 C. &-AV. V. road, ended his lire by j shooting himself in the neck with a I shotgun. Wallace was 62 years of; age and was alone in his store at the j time, his wife and daughter, Mar- j garet, being at Kouts visiting a son, Owen Wallace. It is reported that he had threatened at other times to ( take his life. Oris Cunningham of! Laura, was in the store a short time | before the rash act was committed ; and talked with Wallace. Some timej later he had occasion to go to the! store again and, not finding Wallace, ■ made a search for him, finding him i in the quarters occupied by the fam- 1 ily over the.store, lying in a pool of blood and the shotgun lyirjg nearby, i He had fired the load into his neck and made a ghastly wound that probably caused almost instant death. Coroner Johnson was called from; Rensselaer and made an investigation, satisfying himself that it was a case of suicide. Wallace leaves a wife and five children, four of whom are grown. They are: Mrs. M. 0. Callahan of Wheat-! on, Ill,; Owen A. Wallace of Kouts, and Misses Lottie, Josie.and Margaret Wallace, the latter being the. only' one of the children stilt remain- ! ing at home.