The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-20
SHEAR DIED
 BY OWN HAND Took Laudanum in Board ing House. JACKSONVILLE, FLA, MAN Dependency at Failure to
 Hold a Position.
Found neaa In Bed, With Note to His Young Wife by His side--cor-
 oner Takes Body.

Separated from the wife he loved, penniiess and without employment, crazed with ever-much whiskey, tired of life in general, Charles M. Shear. a his own life early yesterday morning at the boarding house of Mrs. Baggett on the the Woodiey Road in Boguehomme
 An oyerfast life and the recognition spent Is the most probable cause of the death of young Shear. An overdose Of laudanum was the direct cause. but the inability to withstand temptauoh
 Little is known of Shear or his fam fly in Montgomery. He came to the city about six weeks ago and secured out of employment and for twenty-one days he did not earn a living. During that time he was morose ana desponas ent and the suicide would have been a position as clerk in the general merchandise stcre of Frank aVughn on the Red Bridge Road. There he Sers from Mir Vaughn not to open the deers, of the place on that day and the orders were disobeyed. He lost his po- sition. Al. neighborhood of the boarding house in an intoxicated condition. Whether the intoxication was due to iiquer or to drug is not known. r paus,, He was ,n sFgsa geo  turn to the house and set nights rest, About II o'clock he retired.
 He had two roommates, young men. George Stowers and T. J. Parrish. To Mir. Parrish he oonfided when retiring that he was down- hearted and despond- ent;, He slept well appaTensiy; Als ds iouS snSFng psrrI,s MT esTrsn and left the house. MT. stowers awoke at 6s6 o'clock and at that time Shear was still sleeping; a,. reeted to awaken shear. She entered and saw him curled up in quilt, She shook him in an attentpt to arouse him and thought that she mad been sue the room. ~ He f. wal was stltin the same pc sition. She shook him again. His hody was limp and death had not been on sm he%se ss, wSs ssFs .sm sSs no aid conid be given, Coroner ". H. Ttee was sumni 1ned. On his arrival. the empty iaudanum bottle was found letter addressed to Mrs. Charles M, Fla It was atamped. There was an- other Pots to ,o. MT. Parrish asking him
 The letter was written on the letter head of "The Southern ouartette, sing CTS ef up.tS- Date Ross and sentimenns ens leading spirit of this organization. The letter was as follows:
 My Darling Wife--As l write, this and when this reaches. you, will be there. You remember, l tried this once before. All I ask of you Is to tell my mother at 202 Bay Street.
 Charlie"
 Shear had mentioned to the board CTS that he had been married, but was separated from his wife, Otherwise. nothing was known of his family.
 Through the Atlantic Coast Line of- fice, by which railroad company he was once enployed, 1t was found out that he had a brother in Jacksonville. A telegram was sent to him advising him of the death and the answer was "Bury him there" The mother was not In Jacksonville.
 Last night a telegram was received by Coroner Tice from the Jacksenville ofhce of the Atlantic Coast Line au- thorizing him to give the body a de- cent burial at the expense of the com pany. The funeral will take place from the ,corener's office. this morning at o'clock. Rev. John A. Rice, D. D., pastor of the Court Street Methodist Church will ofictate.
 Coroner Tice did not hold an inquest, as he deemed 1t unnecessary.