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KILLS SUICIDL RUMORThe Boy Wrote the Letter « Short Time Before Taking the Fata! Bath—He Was Preparing V to Come Home.■“r*» rrW*r*« CNilljr*Down at Bloomington, Ind, when Irwin Minneman of this city, member of tbo TJIl graduating lt;la s of the l/ogarisport high school. and student in Indiana university, died while taking a bath, there was some talk that the youth might have committed suicide by deliberately turning on the gas But the following letter, written to his father, Theodore Minneman of this city, a short time before going into the bathroom, disproves such idle talk:‘'Bloomington, Ind . May 24. 1911.“Dear Father: 1 send you this letter in rather much of a hurry to tell you 1 am father -kk. Not. dangerously, but have a cold and am bothered with my haytever, I am ending the passes bark as I cannot come home until the first of June“flood bye From your son,“IRWIN.**P S.—Just received your letter— very glad to get it I hope to t*e rid of this cold by June the first Every thing O K With Setter I -end passes.”The body accompanied hy his father, Theodore F Minneman, and his cousin, Ira Cree. arrived In this city last night at 4:§5, over the Vandal ia from f’rawfordsville, Pre ddenf Duller of the senior class of Indiana university, also accompanied the remains The funeral will lie held Saturday morning at 10 oVdoek from the St Bridget's church, conducted by Rev. Father Refer Quinn Burial will be made in ML St Vincent The Knights of Columbus, of which deceased has been a member for a short time, will have charge of the funeral. Bern ay se Hutchins and C. Taylor, room-mates of the young man at Bloomington, came today to attend the funeral The senior class of the local high schooL made arrangements yesterday to have a page inserted in their annual p»b Heat ion, “The Tattler. in memory of the dead youth. A peculiar circumstance surrounds the death of the young man. While the gas was freely escaping from the open jet, a tire was burning under a water heater, and no explosion occurred.
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Logansport Semi Weekly Reporter
Logansport, Indiana, US
Tue, May 30, 1911
Page 2
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