News article:"Charles "Red" Jordan Takes Own Life"/Bossier Parish/LA
Source: The Monroe News-Star
Submitted by: Lora Peppers 
Date: Oct 2000


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Monday, March 14, 1910
Page 5, Column 4

"RED" JORDAN DEAD.
Killed Himself in Charity Hospital at Shreveport.
Shreveport, March 14.-The Times today says:
Despondent over his condition, Charles Jordan, known to almost 
everybody in Shreveport as "Red" Jordan, a former ball player and an 
ex-member of the fire department, committed suicide in the Charity 
Hospital yesterday morning by stabbing himself in the heart with a 
knife.
Jordan was in the last stages of consumption. For many months he had 
been out of work and was taken to the hospital Friday. He was placed in 
the consumptive ward-and according to 

Dr. Calloway, house surgeon of the institution, he would not have 
survived a day longer if he had not ended his life.
He got hold of a pocket knife and plunged it into his heart. The blade 
did not strike the organ itself, but penetrated to within a short 
distance of it. The physicians rushed to him in a few seconds, but they 
only managed to prolong his life a few hours.
He had no relatives here that are known of and the remains were 
interred in the Patter's (sic) field yesterday afternoon at the expense 
of the city. 
Jordan had spent nearly all of his life here. He was yet a young man, 
but ill health had reduced him to a stage where he could no longer work 
and take care of himself.
In his better days he was a ball player, and had he stayed with it and 
his health remained he would probably be playing with some of the big 
leagues today, as he had considerable skill.
He was at different times connected with the fire department and has 
worked as a bill poster. He also worked at the Grand Opera House and 
other houses controlled by the Ehrlich brothers.

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