Cincinnati (OH) Enquirer, January 1, 1880, p. 9. NOTE: The item below, which appeared to include all known suicides during 1879, was abbreviated from the original to show only the suicide in Lawrence County, Indiana. SUICIDES July 4-Body of John Walcup, lately insane, found hanging to a tree near Bedford, Ind., suspended by a rope of bark; had evidently been hanging nearly a week. September 1-Solon Bowman, aged 22, Bedford, Ind., shoots himself because some young men had made sport of him..