LUTHER J. HORD, 63, KILLS SELF
Owner of Local Sanitarium Inflicts Fatal Bullet Wound Early Sunday Afternoon
BODY FOUND IN BEDROOM
Ill Health Believed Cause of Suicide; Victim Was Former Member of City Council
Luther J. Hord, sixty-three years old, proprietor of the Hord Sanitarium here, for the last twenty-seven years, committed suicide at 12:30 p.m. Sunday in an upstairs bedroom at his home, 716 west Franklin street, by discharging a .32 revolver against his right temple.
His body was found by his wife a few minutes after his self-inflicted death had occurred, reclining on a bed in the room. The bullet had penetrated his head and lodged in a baseboard at one corner of the room.
The shock to Mrs. Hord and to numerous friends and acquaintances of Mr. Hord throughout the community was great, as he had never indicated to anyone that he planned to take his own life. His action was attributed to ill health. He failed to recover from a serious operation which he underwent five months ago.
PLANNED VISIT TO FARM
Mr. and Mrs. Hord had planned to go to their farm in Moral township, near London, immediately after dinner. After eating a good meal, Mr. Hord said he was going upstairs to get his revolver, as he wanted to hunt squirrels at the farm. When he did not return from his room as soon as expected, Mrs. Hord went upstairs to call him, and found his lifeless body on the bed. No one had heard the report of the gun when it was fired.
Mr. Hord was born in Shelbyville May 9, 1869, the son of Judge K. M. and Emily McFarland Hord. Except for thirteen years, during which he was a druggist in Ponca City, Oklahoma, he spent all of his life in Shelbyville. His father, who was a noted attorney and judge of the Shelby Circuit Court, was associated with him in the operation of the sanitarium here, which specialized in treatment of addicts to drugs. Mr. Hord was a pharmacist, having completed courses in chemistry and pharmacy at Indiana and Purdue Universities.
The marriage to Miss Ellen R. Bailey took place on August 20, 1892. One son, Dr. Jewett L. Hord, of Oxford, Indiana was born to them and survives, besides the widow.
PROMINENT LODGE MEMBER
For four years Mr. Hord served as a city councilman. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, a 32nd degree Mason and a member of the Blue Lodge of the local Masonic oganization. He also belonged to the Scottish Rite in Indianapolis and to Chilion Lodge of the Knights of Pythias, Shelbyville.
Private funeral services will be held at the home on west Franklin street, Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, Dr. L. O. Richmond officiating. Burial will be in the family lot in the Forest Hill cemetery, in charge of C. F. Fix and Son, funeral directors. Pall bearers will be: Frank Strong, Al Schneider, Herbert DePrez, Will Webb, Herbert Jones and Ernest Fortune. The honorary pall bearers are: Dr. B. G. Keeney, Dr. L. C. Sammons, Dr. R. F. Barnard, Harry Lawson, Harry Armstrong, Frank Clark, John Day DePrez, and C. V. Crockett.
Friends may call at the late home any time after four o'clock this afternoon until the hour of the funeral.
Owner of Local Sanitarium Inflicts Fatal Bullet Wound Early Sunday Afternoon
BODY FOUND IN BEDROOM
Ill Health Believed Cause of Suicide; Victim Was Former Member of City Council
Luther J. Hord, sixty-three years old, proprietor of the Hord Sanitarium here, for the last twenty-seven years, committed suicide at 12:30 p.m. Sunday in an upstairs bedroom at his home, 716 west Franklin street, by discharging a .32 revolver against his right temple.
His body was found by his wife a few minutes after his self-inflicted death had occurred, reclining on a bed in the room. The bullet had penetrated his head and lodged in a baseboard at one corner of the room.
The shock to Mrs. Hord and to numerous friends and acquaintances of Mr. Hord throughout the community was great, as he had never indicated to anyone that he planned to take his own life. His action was attributed to ill health. He failed to recover from a serious operation which he underwent five months ago.
PLANNED VISIT TO FARM
Mr. and Mrs. Hord had planned to go to their farm in Moral township, near London, immediately after dinner. After eating a good meal, Mr. Hord said he was going upstairs to get his revolver, as he wanted to hunt squirrels at the farm. When he did not return from his room as soon as expected, Mrs. Hord went upstairs to call him, and found his lifeless body on the bed. No one had heard the report of the gun when it was fired.
Mr. Hord was born in Shelbyville May 9, 1869, the son of Judge K. M. and Emily McFarland Hord. Except for thirteen years, during which he was a druggist in Ponca City, Oklahoma, he spent all of his life in Shelbyville. His father, who was a noted attorney and judge of the Shelby Circuit Court, was associated with him in the operation of the sanitarium here, which specialized in treatment of addicts to drugs. Mr. Hord was a pharmacist, having completed courses in chemistry and pharmacy at Indiana and Purdue Universities.
The marriage to Miss Ellen R. Bailey took place on August 20, 1892. One son, Dr. Jewett L. Hord, of Oxford, Indiana was born to them and survives, besides the widow.
PROMINENT LODGE MEMBER
For four years Mr. Hord served as a city councilman. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, a 32nd degree Mason and a member of the Blue Lodge of the local Masonic oganization. He also belonged to the Scottish Rite in Indianapolis and to Chilion Lodge of the Knights of Pythias, Shelbyville.
Private funeral services will be held at the home on west Franklin street, Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, Dr. L. O. Richmond officiating. Burial will be in the family lot in the Forest Hill cemetery, in charge of C. F. Fix and Son, funeral directors. Pall bearers will be: Frank Strong, Al Schneider, Herbert DePrez, Will Webb, Herbert Jones and Ernest Fortune. The honorary pall bearers are: Dr. B. G. Keeney, Dr. L. C. Sammons, Dr. R. F. Barnard, Harry Lawson, Harry Armstrong, Frank Clark, John Day DePrez, and C. V. Crockett.
Friends may call at the late home any time after four o'clock this afternoon until the hour of the funeral.
LUTHER J. HORD, 63, KILLS SELF
Owner of Local Sanitarium Inflicts Fatal Bullet Wound Early Sunday Afternoon
BODY FOUND IN BEDROOM
Ill Health Believed Cause of Suicide; Victim Was Former Member of City Council
Luther J. Hord, sixty-three years old, proprietor of the Hord Sanitarium here, for the last twenty-seven years, committed suicide at 12:30 p.m. Sunday in an upstairs bedroom at his home, 716 west Franklin street, by discharging a .32 revolver against his right temple.
His body was found by his wife a few minutes after his self-inflicted death had occurred, reclining on a bed in the room. The bullet had penetrated his head and lodged in a baseboard at one corner of the room.
The shock to Mrs. Hord and to numerous friends and acquaintances of Mr. Hord throughout the community was great, as he had never indicated to anyone that he planned to take his own life. His action was attributed to ill health. He failed to recover from a serious operation which he underwent five months ago.
PLANNED VISIT TO FARM
Mr. and Mrs. Hord had planned to go to their farm in Moral township, near London, immediately after dinner. After eating a good meal, Mr. Hord said he was going upstairs to get his revolver, as he wanted to hunt squirrels at the farm. When he did not return from his room as soon as expected, Mrs. Hord went upstairs to call him, and found his lifeless body on the bed. No one had heard the report of the gun when it was fired.
Mr. Hord was born in Shelbyville May 9, 1869, the son of Judge K. M. and Emily McFarland Hord. Except for thirteen years, during which he was a druggist in Ponca City, Oklahoma, he spent all of his life in Shelbyville. His father, who was a noted attorney and judge of the Shelby Circuit Court, was associated with him in the operation of the sanitarium here, which specialized in treatment of addicts to drugs. Mr. Hord was a pharmacist, having completed courses in chemistry and pharmacy at Indiana and Purdue Universities.
The marriage to Miss Ellen R. Bailey took place on August 20, 1892. One son, Dr. Jewett L. Hord, of Oxford, Indiana was born to them and survives, besides the widow.
PROMINENT LODGE MEMBER
For four years Mr. Hord served as a city councilman. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, a 32nd degree Mason and a member of the Blue Lodge of the local Masonic oganization. He also belonged to the Scottish Rite in Indianapolis and to Chilion Lodge of the Knights of Pythias, Shelbyville.
Private funeral services will be held at the home on west Franklin street, Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, Dr. L. O. Richmond officiating. Burial will be in the family lot in the Forest Hill cemetery, in charge of C. F. Fix and Son, funeral directors. Pall bearers will be: Frank Strong, Al Schneider, Herbert DePrez, Will Webb, Herbert Jones and Ernest Fortune. The honorary pall bearers are: Dr. B. G. Keeney, Dr. L. C. Sammons, Dr. R. F. Barnard, Harry Lawson, Harry Armstrong, Frank Clark, John Day DePrez, and C. V. Crockett.
Friends may call at the late home any time after four o'clock this afternoon until the hour of the funeral.
Owner of Local Sanitarium Inflicts Fatal Bullet Wound Early Sunday Afternoon
BODY FOUND IN BEDROOM
Ill Health Believed Cause of Suicide; Victim Was Former Member of City Council
Luther J. Hord, sixty-three years old, proprietor of the Hord Sanitarium here, for the last twenty-seven years, committed suicide at 12:30 p.m. Sunday in an upstairs bedroom at his home, 716 west Franklin street, by discharging a .32 revolver against his right temple.
His body was found by his wife a few minutes after his self-inflicted death had occurred, reclining on a bed in the room. The bullet had penetrated his head and lodged in a baseboard at one corner of the room.
The shock to Mrs. Hord and to numerous friends and acquaintances of Mr. Hord throughout the community was great, as he had never indicated to anyone that he planned to take his own life. His action was attributed to ill health. He failed to recover from a serious operation which he underwent five months ago.
PLANNED VISIT TO FARM
Mr. and Mrs. Hord had planned to go to their farm in Moral township, near London, immediately after dinner. After eating a good meal, Mr. Hord said he was going upstairs to get his revolver, as he wanted to hunt squirrels at the farm. When he did not return from his room as soon as expected, Mrs. Hord went upstairs to call him, and found his lifeless body on the bed. No one had heard the report of the gun when it was fired.
Mr. Hord was born in Shelbyville May 9, 1869, the son of Judge K. M. and Emily McFarland Hord. Except for thirteen years, during which he was a druggist in Ponca City, Oklahoma, he spent all of his life in Shelbyville. His father, who was a noted attorney and judge of the Shelby Circuit Court, was associated with him in the operation of the sanitarium here, which specialized in treatment of addicts to drugs. Mr. Hord was a pharmacist, having completed courses in chemistry and pharmacy at Indiana and Purdue Universities.
The marriage to Miss Ellen R. Bailey took place on August 20, 1892. One son, Dr. Jewett L. Hord, of Oxford, Indiana was born to them and survives, besides the widow.
PROMINENT LODGE MEMBER
For four years Mr. Hord served as a city councilman. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, a 32nd degree Mason and a member of the Blue Lodge of the local Masonic oganization. He also belonged to the Scottish Rite in Indianapolis and to Chilion Lodge of the Knights of Pythias, Shelbyville.
Private funeral services will be held at the home on west Franklin street, Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, Dr. L. O. Richmond officiating. Burial will be in the family lot in the Forest Hill cemetery, in charge of C. F. Fix and Son, funeral directors. Pall bearers will be: Frank Strong, Al Schneider, Herbert DePrez, Will Webb, Herbert Jones and Ernest Fortune. The honorary pall bearers are: Dr. B. G. Keeney, Dr. L. C. Sammons, Dr. R. F. Barnard, Harry Lawson, Harry Armstrong, Frank Clark, John Day DePrez, and C. V. Crockett.
Friends may call at the late home any time after four o'clock this afternoon until the hour of the funeral.
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