WORLD WAR VET
TAKES OWN LIFE WHILE DEMENTED
Falls City, Neb., Sept. 9-Funeral services will be held
at the Baptist church here Friday at 2:30 p.m. for Clifton A.
Miller, shell shocked war veteran, who, while temporarily demented,
committe suicide in the county jail at Fort Morgan, Colo., last
Saturday by slashing his throat with a piece of tin. The American
legion and I.O.O.F. will have charge.
Suffering under the hallucination that he was being
pursued by an enemy, Miller jumped from a passenger train as it
arrived in Fort Morgan and made a dash for the woods where he
remained all night in hiding during a driving rain. Authorities
found him and put him in jail for observation. While in jail he
seized a tin pie plate tore it in two and cut his throat with the
jagged edge. He resisted all efforts of physicians at the hospital
to save him.
He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. T.J. Miller of this city
and had been a railroad conductor.
The Lincoln Star, Lincoln Nebraska September 9,
1925
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