William Wilder, living thirteen miles south of Aberdeen, committed suicide by shooting himself through the heart. Wilder was about twenty-five years old, of good habits, and had been working for a farmer named Childs. Wilder had threatened to kill himself because his eyes had been poisoned by paris green. He had likewise been disappointed in love. His relatives are well-to-do people at Dunkirk, New York.

The Bad Lands Cow Boy, 6/4/1885