Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1895 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The Coroner’s Verdict. ° Coroner Wright completed the inquest in the Ira Cripps case, last Friday. No new facts of any importance were developed, other than those given in Republican. The following is the Coroner’s verdict: Rensselaer, Jasper Co. State of Indiana. I, Truitt TPI Wright, Coroner in and for the County of Jasper, State of Indiana. Find from the evidence at the inquest held on the body of Ira Cripps, on Oct. 30 and 31, and Nov. 1. That the deceased came to his death by the wheel or wheels of a railroad car or cars on the L. N. A. & C. R. R. on the morning of Oct. 30,1895. Said wheels passing over his neck severing his head from his body. And further that said Cripps by his own will and premeditation bad placed his neck across the rail of the Monon track for the purpose of self destruction. T. P. Wright. Coroner.

Sunday School Convention. There will be a Union Sunday School Convention under the direction of State Supt. C. D.“ Meigs and State Sec’y. C. L. Weaver, in Rensseselaer, Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 16ch and 17th. Saturday’s session will be held in the Christian church and at the Methodist on Sunday. Programmes will be sent to all superintendents for distribution. All come who can, especially superintendents and teachers, and we will have an interesting meeting. C. W. Coen, Co. Supt. We are the only steam laundry in town. Spitler <fc Kight.