FOILS CANCER WITH BULLET, ENDING LIFE
Employee of Former Sheriff Found Dead by Son, With A Shot Through Heart
Wurtsboro - George Durland, fifty-nine of Westbrookville, committed suicide Saturday by shooting himself through the heart with a revolver. The body was found on a bed in the two-room shack he occupied back of the store operated by former Sheriff Fletcher Rhodes, by whom he was employed.
Nelson Durland, twenty-one, a son, who found the body, said his father had been affected with cancer.
The body was still warm when found by the son. Indications were that Durland decided on suicide before getting out of bed.
Dr. Beakes, town of Mamakating health officer after an examination ordered the body removed to the Terwilliger undertaking rooms at Port Jervis. Funeral will be held at the Westbrookville church and burial in the cemetery in that village.
Relatives besides Nelson, are another son, John H. Durland, twenty-five, and Susie, twenty-two. The daughter is an invalid whose condition was reported critical Saturday after she had been told of her father's death.
Mrs. Durland is also living. She is a boarding house operator. The couple separated twenty years ago.
--Middletown (NY) Daily Herald, Monday, April 24, 1933, page 1
Employee of Former Sheriff Found Dead by Son, With A Shot Through Heart
Wurtsboro - George Durland, fifty-nine of Westbrookville, committed suicide Saturday by shooting himself through the heart with a revolver. The body was found on a bed in the two-room shack he occupied back of the store operated by former Sheriff Fletcher Rhodes, by whom he was employed.
Nelson Durland, twenty-one, a son, who found the body, said his father had been affected with cancer.
The body was still warm when found by the son. Indications were that Durland decided on suicide before getting out of bed.
Dr. Beakes, town of Mamakating health officer after an examination ordered the body removed to the Terwilliger undertaking rooms at Port Jervis. Funeral will be held at the Westbrookville church and burial in the cemetery in that village.
Relatives besides Nelson, are another son, John H. Durland, twenty-five, and Susie, twenty-two. The daughter is an invalid whose condition was reported critical Saturday after she had been told of her father's death.
Mrs. Durland is also living. She is a boarding house operator. The couple separated twenty years ago.
--Middletown (NY) Daily Herald, Monday, April 24, 1933, page 1
FOILS CANCER WITH BULLET, ENDING LIFE
Employee of Former Sheriff Found Dead by Son, With A Shot Through Heart
Wurtsboro - George Durland, fifty-nine of Westbrookville, committed suicide Saturday by shooting himself through the heart with a revolver. The body was found on a bed in the two-room shack he occupied back of the store operated by former Sheriff Fletcher Rhodes, by whom he was employed.
Nelson Durland, twenty-one, a son, who found the body, said his father had been affected with cancer.
The body was still warm when found by the son. Indications were that Durland decided on suicide before getting out of bed.
Dr. Beakes, town of Mamakating health officer after an examination ordered the body removed to the Terwilliger undertaking rooms at Port Jervis. Funeral will be held at the Westbrookville church and burial in the cemetery in that village.
Relatives besides Nelson, are another son, John H. Durland, twenty-five, and Susie, twenty-two. The daughter is an invalid whose condition was reported critical Saturday after she had been told of her father's death.
Mrs. Durland is also living. She is a boarding house operator. The couple separated twenty years ago.
--Middletown (NY) Daily Herald, Monday, April 24, 1933, page 1
Employee of Former Sheriff Found Dead by Son, With A Shot Through Heart
Wurtsboro - George Durland, fifty-nine of Westbrookville, committed suicide Saturday by shooting himself through the heart with a revolver. The body was found on a bed in the two-room shack he occupied back of the store operated by former Sheriff Fletcher Rhodes, by whom he was employed.
Nelson Durland, twenty-one, a son, who found the body, said his father had been affected with cancer.
The body was still warm when found by the son. Indications were that Durland decided on suicide before getting out of bed.
Dr. Beakes, town of Mamakating health officer after an examination ordered the body removed to the Terwilliger undertaking rooms at Port Jervis. Funeral will be held at the Westbrookville church and burial in the cemetery in that village.
Relatives besides Nelson, are another son, John H. Durland, twenty-five, and Susie, twenty-two. The daughter is an invalid whose condition was reported critical Saturday after she had been told of her father's death.
Mrs. Durland is also living. She is a boarding house operator. The couple separated twenty years ago.
--Middletown (NY) Daily Herald, Monday, April 24, 1933, page 1
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