Suicide of a Defaulter
MONTGOMERY, Ala., March 30 - A telephone
message, from Selma, Ala., states that I. C. Ellis, agent of the
Southern Express company at that place, committed suicide last
night by taking, morphine. It was learned recently that Ellis was
short about $500 in his accounts; and on Saturday two other
company's auditors' reached the city for the purpose of checking up
his hooks. Ellis was about twenty-five years
old and married.
The
Indiana State Journal, (Indianapolis, IN) Wednesday, April 1, 1896;
pg. 5 - Submitted
by Candi Horton
