Harry Scobee

World War Veteran a Suicide 

Harry Scobee, world war veteran, for whom a guardian was appointed in probate court two weeks ago, committed suicide in the old Crump house at Santa Fe Friday by shooting the top of his head off with a shotgun.  The house belongs to his mother and has been vacant along time.  Life was extinct when the body was found and the remains were buried at Mt. Prairie Saturday.  Deceased was 36 years old and served in the medical unit of the army in France, losing one leg.  He had been twice arrested for theft during the last two years and twice paroled in the belief that his mind was not right.  The disgrace is believed to have preyed on him and caused him to end his life.  No note was left assigning other causes.  He was drawing compensation to the amount of $60 a month and appointment of a guardian may have also piqued him.  Col. P.G. Marr was named as his guardian.  Scobee was a fine specimen physically and it is generally believed his war experience and the nervous shock of his wound deranged him mind.


Source: Paris Mercury dated October 29, 1926, submitted by Vickie Stinson from the newspaper article collection of her grandmother, Bess Kipper Atterbury.