From Rick:

"The South Bend Weekly Tribune", Saturday, October 30, 1880, page 7

Suicide at the County Hospital.

     Mr. George Kline, a violently insane man at the county hospital, was found dead in his cell on Saturday morning, hanging to the ceiling with a chain about his neck.  He was once a well-to-do farmer of Madison township, but lost his reason several years ago, and, becoming hopelessly insane, has been confined in a cell at the county asylum for some time.  How he possessed the means to hang himself is not known.  Superintendent Dunn placed a watch over him, but it seems that he eluded vigilance in some manner.  He was quite dead when found in the morning.