Houston - Thomas - bro-in-law - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

A well dressed stranger, presumably from Philadelphia, committed suicide at the Gentry Hotel in Bloomington Saturday. He came there with his wife some days ago and on Friday she left him. The following extract from the account of the tragedy in the Bloomington Telephone is of interest here: “The suicide decided to visit his wife’s brother, Thomas Houston, at Crawfordsville, about three weeks ago. Houston wired, in answer, that he was going to Bloomington to open a real estate office, and to come there. Evidently the names of the Bloomingdale and Bloomington were mixed in the message, for here they could find no such person. The couple remained at the hotel for a few days, and one afternoon the man called at the window of the Western Union office and inquired if there was a message there for his wife, and appeared to be greatly disappointed on receiving a negative reply. . – thanks so very much to “S” for all the typing