The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-07
THE TURN
John Seymour Took Morphine
and Stryohnine.
AND SHOOK OFF THE COIL
He Was Evidently Laboring Man in
Straitened Circumstances - There
Is Some Uncertainty About
His Identification.

| Another weary pilgrim who evidently
could see no future ahead Of him worth
waiting for sought everlasting COM
fort in the suicides potion at Gus
Kitchens Exchange hotel in South
Main street yesterday morning. He
appears to have taken morphine and
strychnine, at least the symptoms he
manifested inclined the physicians who
attended him to that conclusion. The
| poison must have been taken some
time Thursday night or early yester-
| day morning, more presumably the lat
ter, and he died at the city jail, where
he was taken soon after his condition
| was discovered.
The victims name appears to have
| been John Seymour, though there is
Eno certainty about it, and it may have
been either William Callers or Will
| lam Kelley. No one has yet been
| found who knows him. He was evil
IDENTIFY a laboring man and in strait
| ened circumstances.
The stranger walked into Kitchens
| saloon Thursday afternoon about 3
| o'clock and engaged a room of ]. r.
| McGarry, the day bartender He
| paid so cents. for the room and was
| shown to room IA by McGarry. The
night bartender, not knowing the
| room was occupied, went into it in
the evening when another lodger APP
piled for a room. He found the man
in bed and went out again. This was
| the last seen of the man till yester-
day morning about 10 o'clock lodger
| came down stairs and informed Bar
tender McGarry that the man in IA
wanted to see the clerk. McGarry
went upstairs and found the stranger
in bed. He complained of being sick
and was apparently in a very bad
way. He was perspiring profusely and
seemed to have very high fever. Nc
Garry told him he had better dress
and go where he could get proper at
tention, as there was no means of CIV
ing sick man good care at the lodg-
ing house He agreed to do so, and
started to dress. McGarry left, and
| about an hour later Proprietor Fitch
! en- was passing the door of room IA,
and through the open door saw the
man lying on the floor. He called for
| assistance and got the man down
stairs into the saloon. DR. Sheeran,
who was summoned, pronounced 1t a
case of poisoning, and the man was
at once removed to the city jail and
| City Physician Alexander called
DR.. Alexander worked for two hours
on the man, and as he then appeared
| to be on the road to recovery, Or.
Alexander left to go to lunch. DR..
| Alexander Rad been gone but a short
| time when relapse set in and the
| man died shortly before 2 o'clock.
After Coroner Julien had viewed the
body it was removed to Sherman'a
| undertaking rooms.
h Dr. Alexander expressed the sconvic-
ton that the man had taken NOR
phine mixed with strychnine. In room
Il at the Exchange was found an emp
| ty morphine bottle, and that it was a
| case Of suicide there can be no doubt.
| The suicide left no note and there was
nothing among his few effects to show
definitely who he was. He told Bar
| tender McGarry his name was Will
| lam Kelly. At the JAIL while in a
| partially conscious state, Jailer Boyle
asked him his name, and he tried to
answer, but could only humble some
| thing like Callers or Gallen. In note
book found in his pocket the name of
John Armstrong was written, and in
the book was a letter dated at Ana
| conda in 1898, which was addressed to
John Seymour and signed by Will
| lam Callers. In the pocket of the
clothes were also found three kodak
photographs of team of horses at
| tached to a mower and man sitting
on the seat driving. The features of
the man in the picture We're indistinct
| but some of those who saw the dead
| man thought they could see likeness
of him in the picture. 1t is supposed
he was a, farm hand and that the pic
ture was taken of him while moving.
| From the fact that the name of John
| Seymour was found in the notebook
| and that the letter referred to was
addressed to that name, Coroner Jul
lien is inclined to the opinion Arm
strong was the mans name. AS NO
money was found in the mans posses
sion it is believed he was hard up
and in fit of dependency decided tc
| end his life