Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1901 — Jockey Britton Is Dead. [ARTICLE]

Jockey Britton Is Dead.

Thomas M. Britton, the once famous jockey, committed suicide at a lodging house in Cincinnati, by drinking carbolic acid. Britton left a note asking that his body be shipped to his mother, Mrs. Susan B. Franklin of Lexington, yK. Britton was born at Berea, Ky., twenty-eight years ago and began to ride at the age of 12 for James Williams of Louisville. He had ridden for W. H. Laudeman, W. 8. Barnes, J. E. Pepper and James Murphy.