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High Point Enterprise, North Carolina, Tuesday, 27 April 1915
Mayor T.L. Bass, of Sanford, in Failing Health, Ends Life
Sanford, April 27.- The people of Sanford were given a great shock by the news of the suicide of Mayor T.L. Bass, yesterday afternoon shortly before 4 o?clock. The act was committed in a front room of his residence with a Winchester rifle. Theullet pierced his heart and death was instantaneous. No one was at home with him at the time and the body was found by his wife about 5.30, upon her return home from visiting neighbors. The rifle with which the act was committed was found near the body. Dr. Malver was immediately summoned, but every trace of life was extinct and it was evident that he had been dead an hour or so.
The dead man left a note in the pocket of his coat, the coat being laid across a chair nearby, stating that his continued bad health was the cause of his determination to end his life. The note for the most part related to business matters andas addressed to his son, E.C. Bass.
Mr. Bass was at his office and about the streets yesterday until about 3 o?clock in the afternoon. He was a candidate for re-election being one of three candidates who were to participate in a primary for the nomination of mayor today. he spet most of the day among the voter soliciting support for the coming primary, and was heard frequently to express his confidence in winning in the primary and in the election May 3. However, he was heard by several people during the day and just before leaving for his home about 3 o?clock to complain of a severe pain in his head.
He had been in failing health for the past three or four years, having never fully recovered from the effects of an injury received in a railroad wreck several years ago.
Mayor Bass was serving his fourth term as Mayor of Sanford.
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