From The Breckenridge News
Cloverport, Kentucky
2 December, 1903

WHAT’S DOING IN OLD PERRY.
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Wm. Gilliland, of Derby, Commits Suicide
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   Wm. Gilliland, of Derby, Ind., committed suicide at Tell City last Wednesday by cutting his throat from ear to ear with a pocket knife. The deed was committed Wednesday but Gilliland did not die until Thursday, the knife being too dull to make a very deep wound. The remains were taken to Derby on Thursday for burial.
   Gilliland was visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Doughty, of Tell City. He had been acting strangely all day and sickness was affecting his brain. The deed was committed in an outbuilding.
   Gilliland owns a farm near Derby and leaves a wife and one child. He is thirty-two years of age.

-- transcription by Kate Maynard, 2010