The Monitor-register., 1897-04-02
Tragic Ending of Life.

There was a tragic ending of life at
| Harry Guests drug store on wednesday
night a few minutes before 3 O'Clock.
| About a quarter to z O'Clock Robert Go-
forth entered the store, and 10 an agitated
manner asked the clerk, Wilbert Guest,
who was the only one in the store at that
time, for two ounces of laudanum, at the
same time handing him a small bottle,
saying he wanted it for a cut on his
fneer. which he had bandaged. Mr..
| Guest took the bottle and filled it, re-
placing the stopper and was about to
wrap it in paper, when Goforth said he
need not mind that and reached for the
bottle. 1t was given to him and no
sooner had he received it than he stepped
back a pace or two from the counter,
pulled the stopper from the vial and
drank the contents, and then passing the
empty bottle to Mr.. Guest said:"You
can have that" aud turning on his heel
walked out of the store. AS he passed
out the door Samuel Webster entered aud
Mr.. Guest at once told him what had
transpired and asked him to GO for DR..
Gilman or DR.. Patrick and send them TO
Mr.. Goforth's house, thinking be would go
directly home. Instead, when he left the
store he met his brother, William Go
forth, at the corner, when they stopped,
and his brother asked him about bust
ness, to which ne replied that she bad
shaved his last man." William asked
him what be meant, when he told him
what he had done. do you mean it?"
was the anxious inquiry. "C~ertainly,'
was the reply, aud then William took
him back to the drug store and he went
for a physician. Entering the drug store
Robert sat down in a chai and lighted a
cigarette, aud to one of his friends, who
came into the store, he said he would be
dead before morning, and talked along
in %about-this strain of the trouble he had
been to his family and that he wanted to
end his life. the physicians and Mr..
Harry Guest soon arrived and powerful
emetics were Administered, and he was
subjected to vigorous exercise, but with
out the least apparent effect, and in
about fifteen minutes the drug began to
take effect, and despite every effort to
save his life, ne died in about an hour
after the fatal dose was taken.
The deceased was a barber, and had
led a dlssipated life, and through the
kindness of his brother he had tried the
gold cure, going twice to the Trenton
Sanitarium, but his physical condition
was such that the medicine did not have
it's effect, and he came home despandent,
aud frequently threatened to IKE his
life. On Wednesday afternoon as he
shaved a customer bio said il was
the last man he would shave, aud
toward evening he visited his sister, Mrs.
Adam Moncrief, and the burden of his
talk there was about ending his life, as he
had caused his friends SO much trouble.
AS he came away he met Israel Renner,
when he told him of his purpose to take
his life, finally bidding him good bye and
giving him a little memento TO remember
him by.
He leaves a widow and one child, and
is the third of his family to take their
lives within SIX years, Two brothers hav-
ing previously resorJed to laudanum to
end their lives. The remains were buried
to day. Il is a sad case and the family
bave the sympathy of the community in
their atfllction.