The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-09
ibid 1T MYSELF"
Robinson G. Hutchinson Took
His Own Life Today.
Was Watching His Wife Get
Breakfast When Seized.
They Had Been Married but a Few
Weeks-Hutchinson Lived at
$40 West Tenth Street
No Cause Known.

Robinson c. Hutchinson, a young
Englishman, committed suicide this
morning by taking strychnine. It
seems impossible to find the cause of
his action. Hutchinson lived at $40
West Tenth street. He has lately NOV
ed there with his young wife whom he
married three weeks ago today
This morning he arose as usual went
away from the house to get milk for
breakfast and returning sat down in
the kitchen to watch his wife get the
meal ready, having washed his face
and hands and cOmbed his hair. This
was near 8 O'Clock.
Suddenly he arose to his feet and
running into a bedroom with his hands
on MS stomach threw himself on the
ped. His wife ran in after him asking
MIN what was the matter. He was ly-
ing on the bed shaking and in pain
L made q mistake" he gasped land
nave taken poison At his nose he held
q handkerchief which he asked her to
!eaVe alone and his wife now believes
II was saturated with chlOroform to al
lay the pain of the strychnine, though
she could not detect it then.
she ran to one of the neighbors and
several women came to the house.
Hutchinson was still on the bed and
appeared to be suffering great agony
Brandy was given him but he refused
Don't do anything for me- he ex-
Claimed to his wife. I have done this
myself Nothing can save me-" Fur
ther than that he would not speak.
IN Few moments he was dead.
Or. Sheldon was telephoned for and
arrived soon after the mans death
coroner Westerfield was notified and
arrived. In HUtchinsOn's pockets was
found a paper that had contained
strychn1ne and had traces of it left He
purchased ten grains of the drug at
FRANK HObart'S drug store on July 2
ana said he wanted it to kill rats with
IN his pocket was found also a two
ounce phial of chlOroform from which
about one-third had been taken.
hutchinson was SO years old His
rather, William Hutchinson and four
proChers live at HoltOn. The family is
fairly well to do and Robinson himself
was the owner of a 240 acre farm which
ne held at $4,000 near Holton.
and So in his pocket.
Three weeks ago this evening he was
married at her brothers farm five miles
from from Alma to Miss Thowe, the
months prior to his marriage he had
been employed at the Topeka ASYLUM
as a da1ryman and DR.. Eastman says
he was an excellent young man and
had never had any trouble of any kind
that any one there knew of.
lie was q member of the KNIGHTS of
Pythias order and wOre Pythian but
ton in his coat at the time of his dea I'll
Since his marriage three weeks ago
Hutchinson has had no work and seems
to have been unable to find any.
| cause of his suicide
Mrs. Hutchinson was thorouelIv
| stunned by her husbands sudden and
terrible death but controlled herself ad-
nlirably.
I have no way to account for the
act, she said to a Journal reporter this
morning, we could have lived well till
| winter without a cent more He had no
I trouble that know of. He never gave
| me any sign of any. We were so hap
| by together
The cOrOner's inquest was held at
| DemOss & PenweIPs place this after
noon at 1 O'Clock
The Alma and HOltOn relatives of the
/ dead man have been notified but no ar
engagements have yet been made for the
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