Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1920 — PHILIP STILLER FOUND DEAD [ARTICLE]

PHILIP STILLER FOUND DEAD

At His Home in Walker Township, Where He Lived Alone. Coroner W. J. Wright was called to northwest Walker Sunday afternoon to investigate the death of Philip Staller, a bachelor farmer, aged 53 years, who resided alone on a farm he owned Just east of Albert Hurley's home in that township. . f The man had been in poor healtu for several months, but was in Wheatfield Saturday, where he sold a "buAdh of hogs, and was there until noon. The neighbors who ran in occasionally to see him had remarked that some time they would ’find him, dead, and Sunday when some one went over he was found, fully dressed, lying on the floor, stiff in death. The fire was out and he had evidently been dead for several hours. A basket of eggs was sitting near, and he had evidently gathered them after he returned home from Wheatfield. Death had some suddenly, either from heart trouble or acute indigestion, and was from natural causes. Mr. Staller had lived on and owned the farm where he died for several years. The only known relative he had, so far as known Sunday, was a sister-in-law, over near Goodland, it was said.