Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1878 — Suicide of Isaac R Lewis. [ARTICLE]

Suicide of Isaac R Lewis.

Coroner Warner was notified on Monday last that Isaac It. Lewis, of Birkley township. seven miles northeast of town, had committed suicide by limiting. Lewis found about noon of that day suspended by the neck fr -ni a rafter in his barn, dead, lie was a quiet inoffensive citizen, alamt 85 years of ugd, of.correct habits, and in ordinary pecuniary circumstances. His family cousisied of a wife and tjwochilJrfiji. and the relations were happy. Lewis-' father and sister had developed insanity and we believe had lieen inmates of nn asylum Lewis had told some of his neighbors and his wife that at times he was not cognizant of matters transpiring about him, that he was in constant fear of becoming dw ranged and while in that condition of harming bis wifa and little ones. It is a very sad affair, and one which excites the sympathy of everybody.