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

THE SUICIDE IDENTIFIED

It Was Fred Trussell, Sou ofErthur B. Trussell, North of Ttw* The identity of the unlirtunate young man whose body found Tuesday, by a haystack of Fair Oaks, has been-®Uy established. Ha was Fred' jrnssell, son of Mr. and Mrs. /Jim H Trussell, of 3 miles nortmof town, and a brother of Mrs, Bert Hopper of Rensselaer, The identification isW°mplete. Not only by the revolvß, watch, pocket book and clothirH, but another piece of writing/Bound in his coat pocket, whiclj Coroner Wright had overlooked Bis signed by his name. This nott Is written on the back of an invi'Btion card which Mr. Trussel’s dai faters remember to have seei at their place. This note reads; s follows: “Father the yearling c$ t is yours by right and al! the liofe . and yon keep all my stock as ya’ ‘ own. for I want you to have thek I wrote [several words obliteraA I] sign it over. ts-Fred Tj ssell.

The obliterated word’J evidently referred to a bank ch ecl found in the house some time I ago, and which is payable to th.lboy’s mother, and is for all thj money he had left in the bank. S The young man Lit home on Sept. 23rd, the week c,l the Carnival here, He had beJu talking to his father of taking f Itrip to Dakota, and be drew $ 1 from the bank. To his little bi 'ffier, Lewis, he said he was going, □p to Monticello, to visit rel e Jes. The family have supposed wthe while that he was in Dako 8 | He was not Jo be despondent nor was his k Jalth poor this year, which migi. Jiave been inferred from the first writing discovered and signed only Fred, F, Fred was about 28 years old and w s bcm and raised on the farm where his parents now live. The body has been disinterred at Fair Oaks, snl reburied in Weston Cemetery, wl ere several other m mbt-rs of the family are buried. The reason why Co oner Wright did not sooner find the card with the second and signed wiiting on it was becau-e it w with tue writing inside, on to som-« ot»-er papers, and s em d a part of them

Fred was a very steady and industriom young man, and had sxved quite a sum of money, bes des his other property ; the amount in the bank le t to his mother being abr ut S7OO. The first clue to its being Fred, was from the publication in Fridays Semi Weekly Replllican, of the writing on the sp it! Envelope, and which as soon by Mrs Hopper in town an <| also by Mr. Trusrel at home, their fears that it was their b: J her and son ni