Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1917 — Police Probe Suicide Case. [ARTICLE]

Police Probe Suicide Case.

Indianapolis, Aug. 17. —The police had been able to discover no motive for the suicide of Burton Garrett, thir-ty-six, of Cleveland, O. Garrett’s suicide was one pf thj njost deliberate on record, according to all evidence. He locked himself in a room and put a Fazor and revolver in reach. He shot himself five times with a revolver. When the first four shots failed to end his life he laid down on the bed and fired the fifth into his heart. Garrett was salesman for a film concern. He had told acquaintances he was despondent.