Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1905 — Suicide of John W. Browning. [ARTICLE]

Suicide of John W. Browning.

John W. Brownirfg, well known to every traveler on the Monon by his long service as a passenger conductor, committed suicide at his home in Indianapolis last Friday evening by shooting himself in the head with a revolver. He had been despondent from il health and during the day had remarked to his sister-in-law with tears in his eyes that he “had lost bis nerve.” He had been in the employ of the Monon ever since - the present road was built, formerly as conductor, and for the last five or six years as fuel agent. Many years ago he lost a foot by getting it caught in a switch and a train passing over it, but he served aS conductor long afterward. He was quite active in politics and was twice nominated as the repub* lican candidate for auditor of Marion county but was defeated both times.