Issac Slater was a bastard. A vicious alcoholic, he beat his wife. He beat his children. That is, until the day that his daughter had enough and shot him.
Source
Daughter Shot Him. The Star Press, 2/19/1901
A Domestic Tragedy. Fort Wayne Daily News, 2/19/1901.
Shot By His Daughter. The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette, 2/19/1901
Daughter Not a Murderess. The Star Press, 2/20/1901
Original data: Find a Grave. Find a Grave®. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi.
Year: 1900; Census Place: Wayne, Allen, Indiana; Roll: 359; Page: 3; Enumeration District: 0047
Indiana Archives and Records Administration; Indianapolis, IN, USA; Indiana, U.S., Death Certificates, 1899-2011; Year: 1917; Roll: 02
Original data: Indiana, Marriages, 1810-2001. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.
Slaters in Court Again. Fort Wayne Evening Sentinel, 10/21/1901
He Carried Guns. Fort Wayne News, 10/21/1901
About the Court House. Fort Wayne News and Sentinel, 10/22/1901
About the Court House. Fort Wayne news and Sentinel, 10/22/1901, p. 6
Slater is Punished. Fort Wayne Daily News, 3/16/1901
George Slater Hangs Himself at Infirmary. Fort Wayne News and Sentinel, 12/3/1917
Hangs Himself in Cell at Infirmary. Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, 12/3/1917
Backus, Paige Gibbons. Amputations and the Civil War: Surgery in the Civil War Era. American Battlefield Trust, 10/19/2020