The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-11-12
A STRANGE STORY.
The Reasons Which Caused DR.
Stanley Field to End His
Life.

CltY, VIII De READ with interest mere
as the gentleman has relatives in this
county, and was we'll known to d
number of people in this city.
ain the Evening News of Saturday
was an outline of the strange life story
of DR.. Stanley Field, which was ended
Friday morning by suicide. In COM
pie detail fiction is. outdone. The
most diligeut efforts were made by
relatives and friends to lock the Sc.
crets of the sadly romantic career with
his vOiceless lips in the grave, but
connected with the drama are charac-
tiers upon whose parts the curtain has
not been rung down and the story is
not finished. Blind infatuation, pc
culiar sacrifices, mysteries and secrets
that hid the idolatries of passion. and
the joys and agonIes of love combined
to make burden heavier than the
chief actor could bear. And "there
came a time when the fevered lips of
life longed for the cool, delicious kiss
OF death, when tired of the dust and
glare of day he heard with joy the
rustling garments of the night.
A PROMISING CAREER.
Eight years ago DR.. Field, just
graduated from a Louisville college,
came to Kansas City and pushed rap
idly into practice and prominence.
He came from a distinguished family,
was handsome, cultivated and refined.
At the age of 80, when the eyes of
the closest friends saw nothing but
happiness; and the full measure of
success before him, he found life a
failure and cut it of. He was given
to extremely melancholy moods at
times and on the day before his death
he said to his roommate and his part.
ner in business "This is one of my
blue days"
In partnership with William NJ.
Federman he owned two drug stores
in the city and over the one at indie
pendence and Forest avenues the two
had a suite of three rooms. DR.. Field
also owned twenty cottages which paid
good rent. On the evening before
bis death, DR.. Field posted carefully
the books of the firm up to and includ-
ing the last day of October, and made
out all the bills for the month.
PAINLESS DEATH.
Mr.. Federman was the first to re-
tire, and when he awoke early in the
morning DR.. Field was not in bed.
SupposiDg that his roommate had
gone to breakfast, DR.. Federmsn him.
self went to bis boarding place, and
on his return he went up stairs to see
about his partner and ia a room which |
was used as an Office DIR. Field was |
found dead on the floor in front of his
desk. He wore his night dress,
trousers, slippers and an old coat.
Before him ON the desk was goblet,
above on shelf a phial which had |
contained prussic acid. The manner !
of death was plain. DR.. Field had |
poured the drug into a goblet, put
the phial on the shelf, drank, dropped |
the goblet on the desk and sunk TO |
the floor. The drug caused death in |
at least twelve seconds. He left no
letter of explanation, but to those who
know the events of his life for the
past five years, it is all plain enough.
Allies ROMANCE.
Five years ago he met and loved
Miss Goodwin of Marshall, Mo. |
They were to be married as soon as
the physicians practice made the fu-
ture clear to him. A year after he
became engaged to Miss Goodwin he
met at the hous, of his friend, w.
81. Collins, druggist at Fourth and
Main streets, Miss Lottie Gage, a
sister of Mrs. Collins. Miss Gage |
was fascinating brunette, young and
dashing. He formed mad infatua-
ton for her in spite of the protesta-
lions of bis and his fiancee's friends. |
Then came gossip of a sensational and
damaging kind and it was under
stood that all was over between DR..
Field and Miss Gage.
Then stranger than all that had |
yet taken place, Druggist Collins,
with no remonstrance from his wife,
secured divorce and married her
sister, Miss Gage. He lived with |
her two years and child was born. !
Without objection on her part he was
divorced from her and was again |
married to his first wife.
INFATUATION COMPLETE.
Although DIR. Field during these
two years returned to his first love he
did not cease his attentions to Miss
GAGE or Lottie Collins, and finally |