People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1893 — Broke His Neck. [ARTICLE]

Broke His Neck.

Mascotttah, 111, Sept. 26.—William Vottschoemer, a prominent farmer residing near St Library, fell from hia porch Sunday while talking to his family. His neck was broken by the fall, but the coroner's investigation developed the fact that death was caused by heart disease and that the man was dead before his neck was broken. He was an old settler, aged 75.