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Amos Bortsfield of Corder, near Muncie, shot and killed himself in a straw shed on the farm of his brother.
The bullet pierced his body below the ribs and came out the back. Bortsfield fell and lay in a pool of blood.
His shirt caught fire and had not his brother seen him and rescued him he would have been tortured, for the
flames were communicating to the straw when he was discovered. In letter which he left to his nearest relatives,
Bortsfield gave his reasons for committing suicide that he was poor and too old to live. In a pocket $876 was
found. He was fifty-six years old and leaves a wife and one son.
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