OCR Text |
Show INDICTED BANKER BLOWS OUT BRAINS DIXON. III., Jan. 14. K. J. Countryman, Country-man, former cashier of th Union State bank, which failed soma week jago, and also a petitioner in bank-rutpcy, bank-rutpcy, ended hia life with a bullet J through his brain Thursday in th Le county courthouse as tha court was wmttng for him to enter hia plea to j thirteen indictments returned against h.m yesterday charging; forgery, em-bcement em-bcement and larceny. Countryman had tried to secure bsfl ard faced the prospect of going to jail. As the sheriff led him to the court- 1 room, he asked permission to atep into a washroom, and a moment later a report was heard: Judge Harry Edwards Ed-wards and court attaches found Countryman Coun-tryman dead with a pistol in his hand. Countryman's wife and slster-in- laywere n'I'gorn |