Samuel Roberts (1853-1901)

ROBERTS

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Date: 5/26/2014 at 17:35:10

Malvern Leader
April 11, 1901

COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA April 10, 1901
The body of Samuel Roberts, a well to-do farmer who had been missing from his home, three and a half miles north of Crescent City, since Saturday, was found suspended from a rafter in a small vacant house on his mother's farm adjoining his. Everything indicated that Roberts had taken his life. He had been suffering from nervous prostration for some time and is thought to have been temporarily mentally deranged when he committed the rash act.

Roberts left his home after the noon meal. When night came and he did not return his family was alarmed, but no search was made for him until Sunday, as it was thought probable he might have gone to Council Bluffs on business. A search was instituted Sunday, but no trace of the missing man was found. Roberts had advertised a sale of stock to be held on his farm Monday and prospective buyers were on hand. They were informed by members of the family that Roberts had left his home Saturday noon and had not been seen since. The proposed people attending returned to their homes. William Roberts, a brother of the missing man, found the body hanging in the small vacant house on his mother's farm. He was 47 years old and leave a wife and three children.