Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1904 — Earls Probably Not a Suicide. [ARTICLE]

Earls Probably Not a Suicide.

Mrs. IVilliam Earls, of Sheldon 111., who is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Edward Tebc, west of town, was in town Monday, on matters connected with the d-eath of her son, Anthony Earls the finding of whose dead body in Milroy tp., is familiar to our readers. She gives a statement of h:s condition when he left her home two or three days before his death, whioh shows that it probably occured frb&; a natural cause, rather than being self-in-flicted, with 'poison- He was a ohatnpion ocrn busier, and on the Saturday before he left home he husked 108 bushels. He became very sick that night, with a stomach trouble, continuing so until the Thursday following, oftan having hemorrhages fiom the stomach, and being unable to eat. When he left he declared he would “walk off” his sickness. He was also, as she noticed, somewhat deranged. It is her belief that, while still deranged, be wandered into the place where be was found, and died from the breaking of an abscess in bis stomach. The physicians also, on this statement of the case, agree that this view is probably the correct one. Mrs. Earls states further that her son was born on wbat is now the Harris farm, in Newton county, and not on the farm where the family once lived in Carpenter ip, this county.