The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-09-18

Went to Thomas House Early Yes
terday Morning-Refused TO Get Up
When Awakened Later in the Day.
Said lie Was Sick md Did Not
Want to Be Disturbed-DiscOvere
by Accident Several Hours After
Drug Was Taken-Left Letters Adj
dressed to LandIady, His Brother
and His wifc-No Cause Assigned
for the Act.
Chas. Noble. a guest of the Thomas
House, yesterday took three ounces of
laudanum with suicidal intent, and
but for the heroic work of DR.. E. S.
Osborne, would undoubtedly have paid
the penalty of his rash act.
Noble went to the Thomas House
about 1 o'clock yesterday morning.
He went to bed at once, and was still
in bed shortly before noon, when an
effort was made to enter the room to
straighten it up. He said at the time
that he wasn't feeling we'll, and asked
that he be not disturbed.
About noon a man called to see him
and was shown his room, but it is not
known who the caller is, nor whether
he saw Noble or not. He stood in
the passage for some time, possibly
because he could not get into the room.
and then left.
Nothing more was thought of Noble
until yesterday afternoon, when at $40
o'clock Mrs. Thomas, in showing an
other ledger to room, remembered
Noble and went to his room to see if
he had yet got up. She found that he
was still in the room and evidently I'M
WE'LL as he was breathing in a most
peculiar manner. Entering the room,
she found that Noble, who was lying
in bed fully dressed, could not be
awakened. An empty three ounce
laudanum bottle on the washstand, and
the smell of the drug, which pervaded
the room, told Immediately the source
of the trouble.
DR.. Elton s. Osborne was sent for
and arrived in a short time. He began
at once the treatment usually used in
such cases, but the drug had been in
Noble for several hours, and neither
the stomach pump, hyperdermic injec-
lions of strychnine, an electric battery
nor any of the other remedies tried
had any effect for several hours.
That Noble had intended to commit
suicide and deliberately set about it, is
shown by a number of letters that he
wrote, probably before he took the
laudanum, or, at any rate, before it
had begun to have much effect on him.
One of these, an open letter, was ad-
dressed to Mrs. Thomas and was as fol-
lows:
when you get this note. please tele-
phone my brother at Tybee, Ga. He
is postmaster there. Georgia and Bell
telephones are in his office at Tyoee.
Try the Bell phone first. He will pay
you for anything you do.
Charles Noble"
Below this was the following post
script: The address of my brother is
James M. Noble, postmaster at the
postofice Tybee Island"
The other letters are addressed to
Mrs. Charles Noble. his wife, care of
James Noblei another to James NJ. No
BILE, Tybee, and the third to Cora Le-
Ray of Oglethorpe avenue, east
On the aforementioned was a pencilad
memorandum, asking that Mrs. Thorn
as forward the letters to their adj
dresses.
Mobiles wife came up from Tybee
when she heard of the state that he
was in. The only cause that she could
assign for the act was that there had
been a family jar the day before be-
cause Noble intended to go on the road.
This, however, she did not think any
thing of at the time.
Noble has never been of a, settled
disposition. For a long time he trav-
eled around the country with diff arent
kinds of shows, some of his turns con-
sisting of eating fire, walking on nails
and broken glass and sticking pins in
himself. Lately he has been at Ty-
bee, where he did odd jobs. About
four months ago his father died and
left to each of the brothers some $500.
Besides his wife, Noble has two chill
dren, one of them only a few months
old.
At o'clock this morning Noble had
recovered sufficiently to be able to