Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1908 — No Clew to Cause for Suicide. [ARTICLE]

No Clew to Cause for Suicide.

Chas. H. Porter returned from Chicago Saturday where he received the letter that Jay W. Williams had mailed to bls daughter, Mrs. Porter, the morning of bls suicide, and in which some thought he might possibly have indicated his reason for the suicide which followed so soon thereafter. The letter was a dally message from him to bis daughter. On this occasion Mrs. Williams had given him to mail a letter she had written, and he simply endorsed on it the following words: "All are well. Your affectionate father, Jay W. Williams." As nothing was revealed by a search of his desk at the store, ft is certain that he did not leave any word behind that would serve to furnish a reason for the deed. This strengthens the idea that be bad become deranged temporarily and that the act was committed while be was laboring under some mental depression. 7.