"Porter M. Clem, 36, salesman and driver for the Shell Petroleum Corp. wagon of Danville, and a resident of lower Warren county, died at St. Elizabeth hospital Tuesday morning at 12:30 o'clock from an abdominal wound which relatives say was self-inflicted. The shooting occurred Monday morning about 7:30 o'clock at his home three and one-half miles north west of Foster.
According to a statement made by hs wife, Mrs. Ida Clem, her husband has been despondent over the trial which opened in Covington Saturday in which he was a defendant. He was arrested about a month ago, together with his half brother, Harve Clem, trustee of Mound township on complaint of two other half-brothers, Homer and Zack Clem, who charged the two with non-support of their blind mother, Mrs. Sarah E. Clem.
Mrs. Clem said that she was preparing a lunch to take to the courthouse in Covington, and had stepped to the basement for a jar in which to put coffee when she heard a shot, and then heard her husband moan. Returning upstairs, Mrs. Clem found him lying across the bed in the bedroom in a semi-conscious condition, the revolver clutched in his hand.
Two neighbors, E. Black and Arthur Jones, assisted Mrs. Clem in taking her husband to the Danville hospital. X-ray examination showed the bullet entered his left side just below the ribs and followed a downward course.
The elder Mrs. Clem has been making her home with her two sons, Zack and Homer. The former resides in this city and the latter in Warren county. The wife said her husband had remarked to her shortly before the shooting occurred that the trial would cost him a great deal of money and that he seemed despondent over this fact.
Suit was brought by the two last named Clems, under a criminal statute of the state to compel the older brothers to help support their blind, widowed mother, who had resided here with Zack clem for some time, and with Homer.
After arguments here during all the forenoon Monday following the shooting the court continued the case to Monday, November 9, when it will be resumed before the same jury.
The body was removed to the Edmund & Dickson funeral home in Danville and was taken to the residence Tuesday. Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the residence, with burial following in the Mound cemetery, just across the river from this place.
Mr. Clem was born Sept. 12, 1895 in Indiana, and resided on a farm in Warren county, although employed in and about Danville. His wife, Mrs. Iva Clem is the daughter of Joe White, former sheriff of Vermilion county. The deceased was preceded in death by two children and his father, Charles W. Clem.
Surviving are the widow, his mother, Mrs. Sarah E. Clem; four half brothers, Zack, Homer, Harve and Vorce Clem, all of near Covington, Ind., and three sisters, Mrs. Viola C. Jones, Covington, Ind., Mrs. Sadie Pilotson, Southhaven, Kas., and Mrs. Anna Tillotson, Potomac, Ill."-The Covington Republican, Friday, October 30, 1931
According to a statement made by hs wife, Mrs. Ida Clem, her husband has been despondent over the trial which opened in Covington Saturday in which he was a defendant. He was arrested about a month ago, together with his half brother, Harve Clem, trustee of Mound township on complaint of two other half-brothers, Homer and Zack Clem, who charged the two with non-support of their blind mother, Mrs. Sarah E. Clem.
Mrs. Clem said that she was preparing a lunch to take to the courthouse in Covington, and had stepped to the basement for a jar in which to put coffee when she heard a shot, and then heard her husband moan. Returning upstairs, Mrs. Clem found him lying across the bed in the bedroom in a semi-conscious condition, the revolver clutched in his hand.
Two neighbors, E. Black and Arthur Jones, assisted Mrs. Clem in taking her husband to the Danville hospital. X-ray examination showed the bullet entered his left side just below the ribs and followed a downward course.
The elder Mrs. Clem has been making her home with her two sons, Zack and Homer. The former resides in this city and the latter in Warren county. The wife said her husband had remarked to her shortly before the shooting occurred that the trial would cost him a great deal of money and that he seemed despondent over this fact.
Suit was brought by the two last named Clems, under a criminal statute of the state to compel the older brothers to help support their blind, widowed mother, who had resided here with Zack clem for some time, and with Homer.
After arguments here during all the forenoon Monday following the shooting the court continued the case to Monday, November 9, when it will be resumed before the same jury.
The body was removed to the Edmund & Dickson funeral home in Danville and was taken to the residence Tuesday. Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the residence, with burial following in the Mound cemetery, just across the river from this place.
Mr. Clem was born Sept. 12, 1895 in Indiana, and resided on a farm in Warren county, although employed in and about Danville. His wife, Mrs. Iva Clem is the daughter of Joe White, former sheriff of Vermilion county. The deceased was preceded in death by two children and his father, Charles W. Clem.
Surviving are the widow, his mother, Mrs. Sarah E. Clem; four half brothers, Zack, Homer, Harve and Vorce Clem, all of near Covington, Ind., and three sisters, Mrs. Viola C. Jones, Covington, Ind., Mrs. Sadie Pilotson, Southhaven, Kas., and Mrs. Anna Tillotson, Potomac, Ill."-The Covington Republican, Friday, October 30, 1931
"Porter M. Clem, 36, salesman and driver for the Shell Petroleum Corp. wagon of Danville, and a resident of lower Warren county, died at St. Elizabeth hospital Tuesday morning at 12:30 o'clock from an abdominal wound which relatives say was self-inflicted. The shooting occurred Monday morning about 7:30 o'clock at his home three and one-half miles north west of Foster.
According to a statement made by hs wife, Mrs. Ida Clem, her husband has been despondent over the trial which opened in Covington Saturday in which he was a defendant. He was arrested about a month ago, together with his half brother, Harve Clem, trustee of Mound township on complaint of two other half-brothers, Homer and Zack Clem, who charged the two with non-support of their blind mother, Mrs. Sarah E. Clem.
Mrs. Clem said that she was preparing a lunch to take to the courthouse in Covington, and had stepped to the basement for a jar in which to put coffee when she heard a shot, and then heard her husband moan. Returning upstairs, Mrs. Clem found him lying across the bed in the bedroom in a semi-conscious condition, the revolver clutched in his hand.
Two neighbors, E. Black and Arthur Jones, assisted Mrs. Clem in taking her husband to the Danville hospital. X-ray examination showed the bullet entered his left side just below the ribs and followed a downward course.
The elder Mrs. Clem has been making her home with her two sons, Zack and Homer. The former resides in this city and the latter in Warren county. The wife said her husband had remarked to her shortly before the shooting occurred that the trial would cost him a great deal of money and that he seemed despondent over this fact.
Suit was brought by the two last named Clems, under a criminal statute of the state to compel the older brothers to help support their blind, widowed mother, who had resided here with Zack clem for some time, and with Homer.
After arguments here during all the forenoon Monday following the shooting the court continued the case to Monday, November 9, when it will be resumed before the same jury.
The body was removed to the Edmund & Dickson funeral home in Danville and was taken to the residence Tuesday. Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the residence, with burial following in the Mound cemetery, just across the river from this place.
Mr. Clem was born Sept. 12, 1895 in Indiana, and resided on a farm in Warren county, although employed in and about Danville. His wife, Mrs. Iva Clem is the daughter of Joe White, former sheriff of Vermilion county. The deceased was preceded in death by two children and his father, Charles W. Clem.
Surviving are the widow, his mother, Mrs. Sarah E. Clem; four half brothers, Zack, Homer, Harve and Vorce Clem, all of near Covington, Ind., and three sisters, Mrs. Viola C. Jones, Covington, Ind., Mrs. Sadie Pilotson, Southhaven, Kas., and Mrs. Anna Tillotson, Potomac, Ill."-The Covington Republican, Friday, October 30, 1931
According to a statement made by hs wife, Mrs. Ida Clem, her husband has been despondent over the trial which opened in Covington Saturday in which he was a defendant. He was arrested about a month ago, together with his half brother, Harve Clem, trustee of Mound township on complaint of two other half-brothers, Homer and Zack Clem, who charged the two with non-support of their blind mother, Mrs. Sarah E. Clem.
Mrs. Clem said that she was preparing a lunch to take to the courthouse in Covington, and had stepped to the basement for a jar in which to put coffee when she heard a shot, and then heard her husband moan. Returning upstairs, Mrs. Clem found him lying across the bed in the bedroom in a semi-conscious condition, the revolver clutched in his hand.
Two neighbors, E. Black and Arthur Jones, assisted Mrs. Clem in taking her husband to the Danville hospital. X-ray examination showed the bullet entered his left side just below the ribs and followed a downward course.
The elder Mrs. Clem has been making her home with her two sons, Zack and Homer. The former resides in this city and the latter in Warren county. The wife said her husband had remarked to her shortly before the shooting occurred that the trial would cost him a great deal of money and that he seemed despondent over this fact.
Suit was brought by the two last named Clems, under a criminal statute of the state to compel the older brothers to help support their blind, widowed mother, who had resided here with Zack clem for some time, and with Homer.
After arguments here during all the forenoon Monday following the shooting the court continued the case to Monday, November 9, when it will be resumed before the same jury.
The body was removed to the Edmund & Dickson funeral home in Danville and was taken to the residence Tuesday. Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the residence, with burial following in the Mound cemetery, just across the river from this place.
Mr. Clem was born Sept. 12, 1895 in Indiana, and resided on a farm in Warren county, although employed in and about Danville. His wife, Mrs. Iva Clem is the daughter of Joe White, former sheriff of Vermilion county. The deceased was preceded in death by two children and his father, Charles W. Clem.
Surviving are the widow, his mother, Mrs. Sarah E. Clem; four half brothers, Zack, Homer, Harve and Vorce Clem, all of near Covington, Ind., and three sisters, Mrs. Viola C. Jones, Covington, Ind., Mrs. Sadie Pilotson, Southhaven, Kas., and Mrs. Anna Tillotson, Potomac, Ill."-The Covington Republican, Friday, October 30, 1931
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