Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 123, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1904 — THE LAST THE SEEN HERE [ARTICLE]

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When Fred Trussell, the unhap. py victim of hie own pistol, left here it was under circumstances so strange, and .for him so unusual and unprecedented that it seems now remarkable that his friends had not been greatly anxious from the first. He drove to town with one of bis sisters in the evening of Friday, Sept. 23, and put his horse in the stable at his brother-in-law’s Bert Hopper. About 7 o’clock he started down town with both his sisters, but soon told them he wanted to go back and calk with Bert, meaning Mr. Hopper. The sisters then went on down town without him, and he started like he was going back to Mr. Hopper’s place. He did not go there, however, and that was the last time he was ever seen alive by anyone who knew yitn and remembers the circumstance, Whether he wandered at onoe out to the lonely spot where he took his life; or made some journey and returned there later, will probably never be known. He might, easily from the time that elapsed, have gone to Chicago, or even to Dakota, where he talked of going, and not have gone to the place where his body was found until his return.