Harry Van Etten, aged 39, a former soldier and for the past two years occupying a houseboat on the river near the home of Thomas Thrasher, about six miles below this city, committed suicide last Sunday morning by shooting himself in the left breast with a shot gun. His death was instantaneous.
The body was brought to this city and prepared for burial at the Smith funeral parlors, where an inquest was held yesterday morning by Coroner Cooper. According to testimony of his wife Van Etten had seemed dissatisfied and discouraged and had threatened to take his life on one or two previous occasions. That morning he came back to the boat after inspecting his fishing lines (he was fishing for a living),....
Van Etten is said to have a wife and two children in Enid, Okla., but whether he was divorced from her or not we are informed. After being discharged from the army he left Chicago and went to Cincinnati, we are told, where he married Mrs. Mary Van Etten, his later wife. They proceeded down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers by small boat, taking almost a year on the journey, and elected to stop in this neighborhood, where they had lived for the past two years. It seems that he became downcast in some manner, remarking to his wife at one time that he was "in debt and disgusted" and he had "a notion to kill himself."
The remains of the unfortuate man were interred in Maple cemetery yesterday afternoon by Undertaker Smith. We understand that his wife will make her home for the time being with neighbors in the community where she lives. The only property owned by Van Etten was the house boat on which they lived, with its meager furnishings, and a gasoline launch and he had only 60 cents on his person at the time of his death.
Democrat Argus - Caruthersville, Missouri - Tuesday, June 13, 1922
The body was brought to this city and prepared for burial at the Smith funeral parlors, where an inquest was held yesterday morning by Coroner Cooper. According to testimony of his wife Van Etten had seemed dissatisfied and discouraged and had threatened to take his life on one or two previous occasions. That morning he came back to the boat after inspecting his fishing lines (he was fishing for a living),....
Van Etten is said to have a wife and two children in Enid, Okla., but whether he was divorced from her or not we are informed. After being discharged from the army he left Chicago and went to Cincinnati, we are told, where he married Mrs. Mary Van Etten, his later wife. They proceeded down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers by small boat, taking almost a year on the journey, and elected to stop in this neighborhood, where they had lived for the past two years. It seems that he became downcast in some manner, remarking to his wife at one time that he was "in debt and disgusted" and he had "a notion to kill himself."
The remains of the unfortuate man were interred in Maple cemetery yesterday afternoon by Undertaker Smith. We understand that his wife will make her home for the time being with neighbors in the community where she lives. The only property owned by Van Etten was the house boat on which they lived, with its meager furnishings, and a gasoline launch and he had only 60 cents on his person at the time of his death.
Democrat Argus - Caruthersville, Missouri - Tuesday, June 13, 1922
Harry Van Etten, aged 39, a former soldier and for the past two years occupying a houseboat on the river near the home of Thomas Thrasher, about six miles below this city, committed suicide last Sunday morning by shooting himself in the left breast with a shot gun. His death was instantaneous.
The body was brought to this city and prepared for burial at the Smith funeral parlors, where an inquest was held yesterday morning by Coroner Cooper. According to testimony of his wife Van Etten had seemed dissatisfied and discouraged and had threatened to take his life on one or two previous occasions. That morning he came back to the boat after inspecting his fishing lines (he was fishing for a living),....
Van Etten is said to have a wife and two children in Enid, Okla., but whether he was divorced from her or not we are informed. After being discharged from the army he left Chicago and went to Cincinnati, we are told, where he married Mrs. Mary Van Etten, his later wife. They proceeded down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers by small boat, taking almost a year on the journey, and elected to stop in this neighborhood, where they had lived for the past two years. It seems that he became downcast in some manner, remarking to his wife at one time that he was "in debt and disgusted" and he had "a notion to kill himself."
The remains of the unfortuate man were interred in Maple cemetery yesterday afternoon by Undertaker Smith. We understand that his wife will make her home for the time being with neighbors in the community where she lives. The only property owned by Van Etten was the house boat on which they lived, with its meager furnishings, and a gasoline launch and he had only 60 cents on his person at the time of his death.
Democrat Argus - Caruthersville, Missouri - Tuesday, June 13, 1922
The body was brought to this city and prepared for burial at the Smith funeral parlors, where an inquest was held yesterday morning by Coroner Cooper. According to testimony of his wife Van Etten had seemed dissatisfied and discouraged and had threatened to take his life on one or two previous occasions. That morning he came back to the boat after inspecting his fishing lines (he was fishing for a living),....
Van Etten is said to have a wife and two children in Enid, Okla., but whether he was divorced from her or not we are informed. After being discharged from the army he left Chicago and went to Cincinnati, we are told, where he married Mrs. Mary Van Etten, his later wife. They proceeded down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers by small boat, taking almost a year on the journey, and elected to stop in this neighborhood, where they had lived for the past two years. It seems that he became downcast in some manner, remarking to his wife at one time that he was "in debt and disgusted" and he had "a notion to kill himself."
The remains of the unfortuate man were interred in Maple cemetery yesterday afternoon by Undertaker Smith. We understand that his wife will make her home for the time being with neighbors in the community where she lives. The only property owned by Van Etten was the house boat on which they lived, with its meager furnishings, and a gasoline launch and he had only 60 cents on his person at the time of his death.
Democrat Argus - Caruthersville, Missouri - Tuesday, June 13, 1922
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