The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-03-12

"Wen, boys. here's luck. said ia
do this. and ] will. Those that don't
like it can 50 to hi" These were
the words spoken Yesterday afternoon
in The barroom Of George Roscn, at
cog Cedar avenue. by Charles Rooms
as he raised 10 his lips u glass of
porter into which he had poured sn
ounce of carbolic acid. aud drained &c
in one swallow.
itoons was about A. years old and
lived in Kingston. where he had
wife and family. lie has been working
in this city on ana off for the past two
years. acting as foreman for mis- father,
n. ii. Rooms. who has the contract
FOR the construction of the big Nine
tcenth district sewer in South Scran-
Iton.
koons strollcd into the barroom OF
| Eosen's place yesterday afternoon be-
| tween and o'clock. and began 10
drink rather heavily. Between drinks
at the bar he coniided to Charles r.
Armstrong, one of his oldest and best
| friends. that he had had some trouble
with his wife. People don't searn to
care much for me-" he said. I'm only
| a cripple, and I've been thinking that
1t wouldn't be n bad idea TO take o.
dose Of poison and get through with
the whole thing"
TRIED TO CHEER HIM.
| Armstrong and several of the other
men present tried to cheer him up.
and the talk about suicide was dropped
for the time. Rooms went over and
sat down at a table near the window.
Tho barroom began to fill up. and not
much attention was paid to him. There
were i'm the barroom in addition to the
proprietor. George Rosen, and his VAR
tender. Jacob kriCk. number Of other
men. including Charles Armstrong,
Jacob Sunday and Frank Eli.
| About 4.30 o'clock Rooms, who was
by this time becoming quite intoxi-
Gated, called for a glass of potter.
1t was served him by the bartender
end LAYING it on the table. he pulled
from his pocket an ounce bottle con-
tanning Il colorless liquid. This he
poured into the glass ir the presence
of everyone present. and raising II
aloft, gave the toast quoted 1T tho
beginning of this article. and drained
1t to the dregs.
| No one made any effort as far as
could be learned to prevent him from
taking the deadly dose. II would have
been an easy matter To Dash it out of
his hand. but for some unexplained
reason no one seemed to think Of this.
Several Of those present stated after
wards hat they didn't realize he was
taking poison because they thought
him too drunk to dc such thing.
They admitted, however. that only a
short tire before he had talked of
taking poison.
HIS TONE TRIUMPHANT
81 told YOU I'd 60 it," he cried, ui-
umphantly. when the deco was done,
and then called for a glass of water
as the acid began to eat into the deli
cate membrane of the stomach. He
soon began to suffer great agony, and
lapsed into unconsciousness. Several
physicians were summoned, but they
could do nothing to help him. One of
| them said he had taken enough poison
to kill several men.
No cause is assigned for the suicide
except the reason given by himself
that ha had trouble witlr mis- wife. His
father was in Kingston ut the time
and was telegraphcd for.
KoonS tried to commit suicide thref
weeks ago az Hinckel's hotel at Wilkes
Barre when he attempted to take q
dose of poison. 1t was taken away
from him, however before he could
, swallow II.