Elkhart County IN Archives Obituaries.....Clapp, Dwight C May 3, 1900
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Nappanee News, 9 May 1900
SUICIDE AT GOSHEN - D. C. Clapp, a Traveling Salesman, Shoots Himself in The 
Head at Hotel Hattle - Dwight C. Clapp, a traveling man aged about 55 years, 
whose home is at Owosso, Mich., committed suicide, at Hotel Hattle in Goshen 
at noon Thursday by shooting himself in the head, with a 32 calibre revolver 
over his right ear, the bullet penetrating the brain and finally lodging 
apparently over the right eye.  He died with an hour, never having regained 
conciousness.  The act seemed to have premeditated as he bought the revolver 
at the Goshen hardware store.  He had nearly R25 on his person.  No doubt but 
the act was committed while laboring under an aberration of the mind.  The man 
was not dissipated,....

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article is longer but I do not have the rest of it.

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