The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-09-26
FLOGGING SAVED HIS LIFE.
ETHAN PALMER TOOK a VERY LARGE
DOSE OF LAUDAHUM.

NeiEhbora walked Up and Down for Four
Hours and Beat Him vigorously ON the
Back and Legs with Switches-Wheu He
Awoke He Thought Bees Had StunE Him.
ATLANTIC HOLLANDS. N. j., Sept. 25.-Ethan
Palmer. a flower grower. 10 black and blue from
the back OF his neck to his heels as a result OF
the whipping he received from his friends and
neghbors on Sunday afternoon. They were
trying to save him from death by laudnnum
poisoning. and they succeeded. He took q big
dose OF the poison so he and his family say. be-
cause he was made frantic by q toothache and
wanted to stop II quickly. The dose. without
doubt. would have killed him II it hadn't been
for the whipping.
Palmer lives In a small farmhouse a mile or
so from the village. Besides growing flowers
for market he drives q bakers wagon. He
knows everybody in Atlantic Highlands and
everybody likes him. Lately he has been more
or less involved in business complications In
which he has had the sympathy OF everybody
that knew about them. When his hired man
appeared In front OF the Zableys' house over
the wav Just after noon on Sunday and shouted
that Palmer had taken poison and help was
wanted the whole neigh borhood was aroused.
Ono young man ran all the way to the village
and clean across II to DR.. Van Matters. In very
little moro than quarter OF an hour the ply
scian's buggy came whirling up the hill. over
the railroad crossing. in a cloud Of dust He
went UP into Palmer's room. where Mrs. Palmer
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