Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1899-01-05
DEATH BY HIS OWN HAND
Dennis McCarty an Old Resi-
dent of This City Takes
His Life EARLY This
Morning.

While suffering from partial alien
Sioo OF reason, Dennis McCarty, one
W the old res dents o. mis- place. early
ms morning s.sllawed thirty nil.
/! .ins of most dsa'.ly poison, which
-l,scd his death twenty rainntes after
AIDS Shortly before seven o'cloej
AIS morning he arose and after eaiin
lis breakfast, went about his house
hold chores in his customary manner.
There was nothing in his actions whic',
Guild denote taaG he ha in mind his
self destruction. About seven he lie!
he house and came up town, comm
trect to Brown and Sons drug s'or,
lie entered and asked for forty grainr
of strychnine, steting that he wantec
to use the poison in the determination,
of rats that infested his house. Par
tles in charge of tia store at the time
attempted to sell him trough OH rats
III place of the strychnine, but Mr.
mccarthy was ohdurate and stated that
ne would have the strychnine or noth-
ing. After u deal of parlying he final
iy secured the desired poison and start
ed for home After procuring the poi
son he was apparently worried over his
intended deed, as, when he reached
Weabaseak' establishment in the west
end of town he entered and stated to
the man in charge that he felt weak
and sick and wanted glass of wine.
After drinking this he went on home
He had been in the house only a short,
inc when he took thirty nine grains
OF the death dealing drug. Jmmed
'ately after swallowing tao poison he
went into his bed room and threw him
self on the bed Mrs McCarty, hi.
wife, saw him take the fatal dose bur
supposed he was taking medicine untl
f,e called her to his bedside and told
her of his terrible deed She tried t
prevail upon him to take an antidotA
IN an effort to counterfeit the poison,
but he refused. The children of Mr.
McCarty, and DR. Tamisiea were inn
mediately summoned, but when they
arrived the finger of death had touch
ed HIM, and he was nc mofe.
For tG.. past year the deceased haa
suffered temporary fits of despondenc,
which ally occurredthetir first few day
II each month, tut continued only
few days. That he was prompted t.
take the fatal step by All aberrated
lind is given credence by the fact tina
he has often stated that he had a 10
roI Of suicide, and being man degmi
T., hi, religion he stated that in his
mind 1t was an uupardoaanle sin
Funeral Wednesday Hour not yS'
determined, Annopncemt nj tf''hA'ilo"
The remains Of Ed Ske'itoh VINO va
4tjured in Omaha s'eV RAJ Gays as
and dlea there saturday, were brougl
to this sity tehs morning and buried II
tha Rro,lson cemetery
lL,srry Fitzgibbon re'u ned to Wood
,61ne Normal this morning after ths
| lOlluay VHCaClOD.
Carroll Seminal - It's all right for
President Mckinley to don CoDfede-
rate badge. OF course it is. But SUP
pose Col. William ,lenningc Bryan had
| started the fashion. Yonr Uncle Rich
ard Clarkson and other fighters of his
stripe would have split their throats
with bowls of "Copperhead!"
A Missouri girl punched out both
eyes of tramp with her parasol re-
Ger v, because he tried to hug her,
IT Missouri girl, like all Americans,
like to be humbugged, but they draw
the line when it comes to being bum
Rugged.
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