Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-03
.D|DN' I Want 70 LIVE
Because He Thought He Didn't
Suit His Sweetheart. AT.
tempts Suicide.
Geo. Grace Swallows Ten Grains
of Strychnine But Still Lives
Will Recover.
Walks to Buggy to Die in Girls
Arms-To Have Been Mar.
ried in Three Weeks.

. Because he thought he couldn't SUI
I his sweetheart, Miss Naomi Grantwitl
a l7-year-old Grundy Center CIR
George Grace, a young man 81 years {
! age. we'll known in this city and for
. lner resident of Albion. attempted sui
eide at o'clock TUESDAY night b
swallowing ten grains of strychnins
4; The prompt use of a stomach pun
saved his life and the prospects ar
good for his recovery. Grace and Mis-
Grantwlth We're to have been marie,
Within the next few weeks.
Grace and the young lady whom h
was soon to wed drove to Green Mount
am Monday evening from Grundy Cen.
ter. to visit at the home of Grace.
brother; Fred Grace, !; young farme,
llVlng one and one-half miles north al
mat place. Grace has been working 70,
the past year for Mrs. p. Grantwith
inotner OF his intended on her farm two
ana one-miles southeast of Grundy
Center. tuesday morning, in company
with Miss Grantwith and his sister-in-
law, Grace drove to this city to spend
lhe day They expected to leave for
Green Mountain again early in the
evening, but We're delayed because OF
the failure of Grace to show up at the
appointed hour, 73O. Grace drank con-
slderably during the day and was in n
mood to feel that Miss Grantwith was
nndins fault with him as a result of
his actions.
Promised He Wouldn't.
MISS GrantWith says that Grace
PROMISED her Tuesday morning that he
would never drink another drop. but
she learned, shortly after they had been
IN town, that he had been drinking. She
oid not reprimand him, however she
states. While she says she didn't like
~ very Well, to think that he would 90
soon forget his promise of the morning
she did not rebuke him or attemnt -
provoke quarrel.
Bids Friends Goodbye.
Grace had been brooding over what
~ eohsidered his troubles all day, and
az tnree different times babe farewell
20 James II. Ellis, bartender at the
GERMAN saloon on North First avenue
1liis was a comrade of Grace in Com.
pahy a, OF the Forty-ninta Iowa. dnr-
hg the Spanish-American war and
Knew MIN Well Grace remarked To III
49, IN extending his hand that ha
would probably Oh; Ply RsXsr see him again.
ellis told him to forget it, and did not
tai MI ut oil
he realized that he had been drinking.
Buys Poison for Rats.
Grace bought the strychnine at 80
tuesday afternoon at the George P.I
Powers store. He Went in and inquired
what kind of poison they had for rats.
The clerk named over rough on rats,
arsenic and strychnine. and Grace re-
pl!ed "Strychnine, belive that's what
The old lady said she wanted" He then /
ten grains of the drug, which,
was placed in small phial and labeled /
poison"
Takes Sweetheart Down Town.
AT twenty minutes to O'clock Grace
took Miss Grantwith down town for
what he supposed would be the last I
time he would ever see her. They Wis
TED two or three stores and returned I
% Flnkle's feed yard. where the team
had been left, and where Mrs. Grace, |
Grace and Miss Granwith had made
headGssarters all day. Grace had bought
new suit while in the cit, and showed
it to the women. Miss Grantwith ex-I
pressed herself as not liking 1T very
wen. aitho she says she found no par
llcular fault with it. This appeared
to have another depressing effect upon
Grace, who remarked to Miss Grant
with that he didn't believe he could
ever satisfy her
Takes Dose in Glass Of Beer.
Grace left his sister-in-law and
sweetheart shortly after Z and nrom-
'sed to be back a 73O. They waited
patiently and had the team ma de ready
intending to depart for home at 5.
Grace showed UP or not and
leave word for him to return on the
1910 train. Grace. in the meantime.
went to the Friedrich & McCoopan
saloon. where he ordered a glass of
peer. saying he wanted to take some
medicine. The beer was set before him
ne dumped the contents of the small 1
bottle into ii and drained the glass. re-
turning the bottle to his pocket In
leaving the saloon he told Mr.. Fried
rich good-by and said that he might be
in his grave tomorrow. He walked
from there to Finkle's where he found
the women ready to start for home.
without any ceremony he got into the
buggy and gave Miss Grantwith the
bottle. saying that he had taken the
contents OF it. He also said that he
he wouldn't ride very far with
them. He had no sooner got the words
out Of his mouth than the commissions
set in and his ago5'zing cries were
plainly heard from the street MIR. Fin
kle looked at the bottle and FASTENED
for a doctor. who arrived few mo-
ments afterWard with a stomach pump
The stomach was relieved from the
poison before very much absorption
Have Hard Time Saving Him.
The physician had hard time saving
his patient, and it was nearly IL o'clock