Miller, Iona 1879-1930 Edmeston
Obituary
Farmhand
at Edmeston Holds
Threat
to Commit Suicide
Edmeston, Feb. 28----While his employer, Grace
Rood, was summoning the state police, Iona Miller, 51-year-old
farmhand, walked away from her into the kitchen of the Rood home on
Edmeston R. D. 2 and sent a charge of shot from a 12-gauge single
barrel shotgun through the jugular vein on into his head from the
right side of his throat to cause instant death.
His act came on top of threats of self-destruction
which he had made at various times ---threats which are believed to
have been brought about by suffering with stomach trouble for several
months.
Before he fired the fatal shot he notified his
employer of his intention and while she was getting in touch with
State Troopers E. C. Elmendorf and V. D. Hemmer, members of troop C
at Sidney, stationed at Edmeston, carried out the act between 2
o'clock and 2:15 Friday afternoon.
The
employer did not enter the room in which Miller met his death until
the police arrived. The body was not touched until Coroner B. F.
Bancroft of Garrattsville arrived and gave permission to move it to
Houck's undertaking rooms.
Mr.
Miller has lived in the vicinity of Edmeston and Burlington Flats all
of his life. He had been employed at the Rood farm four years.
Surviving him are a daughter, who is at school, Miss Rosemary
Miller, and a son, Ernest Miller, of West Exeter. Funeral
arrangements have not been made but it has been decided that
interment will be made at Burlington Flats.
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