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NEWBURG BANK FAILURE CAUSES SECOND SUICIDE
James L. Allen, Director in Defunct Institution, Hangs Self
HEALTH BROKEN
NEWBURG, Ind., March 19.โA second suicide was laid at the doors of the failure of the Farmers' Bank of Newburg Sunday when the lifeless body of James L. Allen, 54, former director in the bank and treasurer of Warrick county for two terms, was found swinging from a rafter in the hayloft of the barn on his farm, one mile west of Newburg.
Allen's health broke down shortly after the bank closed its doors upon orders of bank examiners in October, 1921.
The body was discovered at 12:30 p. m. when his wife went to the barn to call him to dinner. She failed to see him around the barn and climbed up into the loft.
Allen spent the morning in Newburg and was preparing to go with his family to visit a brother in the evening.
The first suicide attributed to the bank failure was that of Isham Taylor, of Yankeetown, October 17, 1921, soon after the bank failed. Taylor, a vice-president of the bank, cut his throat the same night he was married to Miss Marie Merrill, his 20-year-old housekeeper. He sent his youthful bride to her father's home before killing himself. Taylor, it is said, believed he would lose most of his property through the bank's failure.
Feeling is again running high in Newburg as the result of Allen's