People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1894 — TIRED OF LIFE. [ARTICLE]

TIRED OF LIFE.

Worn Out by Disease a St. Louisan Takes a Fatal Leap. St. Louis, Aug. B.—Henry Baker, aged 50 years, committed suicide Tuesday by jumping head first from the window of his room on the second floor at the corner of Ninth and Morgan. He had been sick of consumption for a long time and it is supposed he had wearied of existence. Clad only in his underclothes, Baker plunged from the window, alighting on the crowded sidewalk full on his head. His skull was split wide open and his brains almost scattered over passers-by.