Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1899 — More About Frank Coulter’s Death. [ARTICLE]

More About Frank Coulter’s Death.

Israel H. Coulter, of Kentland, father of the young man, Frank Coulter, whose sudden death Monday has already been related, came over today, to take the body of his son home for burial. He was accompanied by C. E. Ross, a friend. The body was taken on the 10:55 a. m. train. The dead man’s full name was Frank Elsworth Coulter, and his age was 33 years last June. The cause of his death is officially reported as heart failure and the disease producing it, alcaholism. According to his father’s statements, he has been troubled with some organic heart trouble for a long time. • His drink habit disease was of the periodic form, and caused him every few months to have a season of inordinate drinking for a week or two. He had been or such a periodic spell ever since his arrival here, and to such an extent that it had resulted in a light attack of delerium tremens. The report common around town, and which was even telegraphed to the city papers, that Coulter’s fall caused his death, by breaking his neck, is entirely without foundation. It was his death that caused his fall, not his fall th at caused his death. Neither is that any foundation for the report that his death was caused from an overdose of medicine. He had been prescribed for by one of our physicians, but the medicines were not of a nature to have caused death in that form even had he taken them greatly in excess of directions. The report that he was going away from a saloon when he was stricken is also erronious. He had just left Wade & Wood’s barber shop, where he had been shaved. Mr. Coultor, father of the unfortunate young man, is a jeweler in Kentland, and a much respected citizen.