Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Phillips, Walter S. September 24, 1896
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Belding Banner News – Thursday, 1 October 1896
Our quiet village was startled Sept. 24th when Justice D. A. Swain was hastily 
summoned to hold an inquest over the remains of Walter S. Phillips, who had 
committed suicide by cutting his throat with a butcher knife.  Mr. Phillips 
has been in poor health and for the past few weeks has been worse than usual 
and it is supposed that he committed the act while in a deranged condition of 
mind.  Mrs. Phillips went to the barn to assist the hired man to put up some 
wheat he was about to sow and when she came into the house found that Mr. 
Phillips was not lying on the lounge where he usually did, and where he was 
when she went out; and after calling him several times and getting no response 
sought for him through the house, at last finding him in a small closet with 
his throat cut and unconscious.  Some of the neighbors that were passing were 
called in and others sent for, but all that could be done was to prepare the 
body for burial and comfort the bereaved wife and quiet her nervous system 
which had received such a severe shock.

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