The News-Sentinel 1937 - Fulton County Public Library

He was a patient sufferer during his last illness which was of short duration, his life in this community
is known by all. He was of a kind disposition and always ready to help and assisted any of his neighbors.
He will be missed by his family and neighbors.
Thursday, February 11, 1937
[NOTE: Not datelined, but obviously from Logansport, Ind.] -- Robert Roy JOHNSON, 28, Culver
Military academy graduate, and a son of Roy JOHNSON, local restaurant proprietor and former president
of Remedial loan company, died of multiple skull fractures in the wreckage of the car of Sewell
MURDOCK, local business man, shortly before noon Wednesday as the car, borrowed here shortly before,
turned over and was demolished in a field at the edge of Carrollton.
The youth, a cutter employed at Gossard company plant, was alone in the car as it careened across state
road 29 speeding southward, skipped a fence and overturned.
Witnesses questioned by Dr. Hubert GROS, Delphi, Carroll county coroner, included Frank MORRIS,
1711 High street and Jay McCROMICK, 200 Wheatland avenue, who saw the car leave the road a short
distance from a point where they were parked at the entrance to the Harley MUMMERT home.
The car clipped off a utility pole in front of the Carrollton hatchery before it came to rest in front of the
Will DISHON home. Among the first to discover the driver dead were members of the Dishon family.
Funeral services for the youth will be held from the residence, 189 North street, at 10 o’clock Saturday
morning, with the Rev. Francis REESE officiating; inerment at an Ossian, Indiana cemetery, with Chase
and Miller in charge. The body is at the Chase and Miller mortuary where friends may call.
Surviving the youth, a graduate of the local high school and a basketball player in 1927, as well as a
student at the University of Michigan, are his parents, of North Street, and a sister, Betsy [JOHNSON],
now a student at Frances Shimer school for girls, McCarroll, Ill.
Saturday, February 13, 1937
Pulaski, Ind., Feb. 13. -- Mrs. Harry FISHER, 50, wife of the former trustee of Indian Creek township,
shot herself to death in the bedroom of her home at 4 o’clock Friday afternoon, firing one bullet from a
single shot .22 calibre rifle through her left temple.
Mrs. Fisher who had been in failing health for the past month went into the kitchen of her home and
secured the weapon and then returned to her lower floor bedroom while her daughter, Olive, who had been
caring for her, was upstairs.
The daughter, hearing the fatal shot rushed to her mother’s bedroom where she found the body
stretched across the bed. Dr. H. G. McCASKEY of Winamac was summoned but Mrs. Fisher was dead
when the physician arrived.
Coroner Claude BURSON of Francesville was summoned and the body later was removed to the
Burson and son funeral home in Francesville.
Surviving besides the husband are one step-son, Donald [FISHER], and five daughters, Olive
[FISHER], Nola [FISHER], Mary [FISHER] and Nancy [FISHER, all at home and Celma [FISHER] of
Chicago.