Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1901 — Brains Himself in Jail. [ARTICLE]

Brains Himself in Jail.

Frank Rutledge, one of the convicted bank burglars, with a trial for murder ahead of him, committed suicide at Toronto, Ont., by jumping from the interior gallery of the jail to the pavement below. His skull was crushed in the fall, and he died about an hour after. The events of the last few days in connection with the trial of the three men already have cost three lives, those of William Boyd, shot while doing his duty as a police officer; Jones, fatally injured while trying to escape from the hack conveying him to jail; and now Rutledge, who killed himself to avoid the gallows. Rice, the remaining one of the three burglars, Is believed to be the man who shot Boyd, and his conviction for murder is declared certain.