Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1919 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Place* FARMER COMMITS SUICIDE Had Served as Juror in Miller Murder Trial at Winamac. Winamac, March 3. —William T. Baker, age 50, a farmer in Harjison township, committed suicide Iqbout 7 o’clock Sunday morning by shooting himself through the head with a target rifle. He had served as a juror at the Orrin Miller murder trial, in which Miller was acquitted here last Friday might. The body of Mr. Baker was found near the house by his daughter. The family c(m give no reason for the act. >Hle leaves a widow and seven children. A son, Hugh, who had been with the army in France, telegraphed that he had arrived in .New York on March 1.