The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-11-18
j. H. Green Found Dead in His
Room This Morning
A Bottle Containing Powerful Medi.
cine Was Found Empty-Had
Been Ill.
INQUEST WAS THIS AFTERNOON


ployed BY Groner, the installment
dealer of lower Broadway, was found
dead this morning in q back room at
AIS Court street, and is supposed to
have committed suicide by taking
bottle of medicine prescribed for heart
disease.
The dead man had been sick since
last Friday, when DR.. B. B. Griffith
was called. He improved steadily and
last night was able to get about, and
seemed almost as we'll as usual.
He appeared to be Eighty" how
ever, and early in the evening went
into the house, which is kept by Mr..
T. E. Garland who rents rooms and
claimed . man with gun was in his
room, and asked Mr.. Garland to send
for the police. Mr.. Garland went
back and asoertained that there was no
one about, and induced the old man
to retire. He was asleep when the
others in the house retired, but this
morning when they went to ascertain
how he was, he was found to be cold
and stiff in death.
A bottle of medicine that was full
yesterday afternoon was found empty
this morning. 1t contained a mixture
Of belladonna and another poison pre-
pared for heart disease, and DIR. Grit
fifth, who wrote the prescription, states
that it should have taken nearly four
days for the medicine to be consumed,
but it was all taken last night, and
contained poish powerful enough to
cause death. The most plausible theo-
~, is that Green, while temporarily
deranged, took the contents Of the bot
tie and died from its effects.
The dead man had,been living in
Paducah for the past two or three
years, according to employees Of John
l.. Jones, where he worked until re-
Gently. His family live in Nebraska,
and why he did not live with them he
never revealed. He was a G.. A. r.
man, however, and is said to have
owned about 100 acres Of land some
where in Nebraska. He also has q
niece in st. Louis, who was today no.
titled by wire of his death.
Green some time ago went TO Mr..
Garlsnd's and said he wanted to rent
a small back room and keep "bach. 7"
He bought an old stove, and lived all
slone, taking his meals out. He had
little to do with anyone. and seemed
TO prefer his own company.
When the doctor called to see him
Friday ne pronounced the patients
heart very bad and said that unless he
got better at once Mr.. Green would
die. Mrs. Garland sat up all night and
gave him medicine every hour. and he
improved. 1t was thought that he
would be able to work today, and when
about 8 O'Clock Mrs. Garland got up
and went to see how the patient was,
she suspected that he was dead when
she looked in, and called another, who
found her suspicions were correct.
Acting Coroner Jesse Young was
called ana had the body removed TO
Nance & Spaulding's. The corpse was
half on the floor and ha If on the bed,
and his clothing was twisted about his
feet in such manner rs to indicate
that he had tried to get on the gar.
ments during the night and failed.
The inquest was held at the Nance
undertak ing establishment this after
noon, and developed little new. The
deceased was man who drank hard
at times.
DIR. b. B. Griffith testified that the
medicine he gave him yesterday was
very strong, and that when he called
last evening he saw that the patient
had taken too much. He compliment
ed the medicine and said it was the
best he had ever taken, and that he
liked it so well he had doubled the
dose.
| The doctor could then see the effects
of it in his eyes, ana warned him
against il, saying that he must take it
as directed, or It would kill hin.