Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1917 — Aged Man Kills Self. [ARTICLE]

Aged Man Kills Self.

Laporte, Aug. 24.—Edwin Gerrard, sixty-five, after threatening suicide dally for over a month, made good by blowing off the top of his head with a shotgun. Relatives say he was mentally deranged.