Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 117, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1909 — Unrequited Love Thought Cause Of a Young Man’s Suicide. [ARTICLE]

Unrequited Love Thought Cause Of a Young Man’s Suicide.

Rollin Hutchens, of Sheridan, Ind., is believed to have committed suicide Friday, afternoon near the state fair grounds at Indianapolis. At least his mangled body was picked up along the Monon tracks, where it had been run over by the passenger train that arrived here at 6:02 o’clock from Indianapolis. He had been in love with Miss Myrtle Jackson, of Bloomington, and she had dismissed him, and letters found on his body indicated that he had decided to suicide. Hutchens had previously befen married and divorced.