Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-07-11
CAPT. EDES SUICIDES.
Took Stryehnine Sunday Morning and
Died From the Effeets =
SpOndeney the Uausc.


ing, by drinking strychnine. Few
of the guests had arisen and he
would probably have died in his
room had not Landlord Honey
heard him groan and struggle.
MIR. Horney summoned the porter
and other assistance and carried
him down into a sample room and
called DR.. Coleman. He was be-
yond help, however, and died with
5 IN ten minutes after DR.. Cole
man arrived. The glass from
which he drank was found in his
room and DR.. Coleman and Geo.
Guthrie analyzed the contents that
were left in it. They found sufi-
cient strychnine left in the glass
to kill several men.
Coroner DR.. Moore summoned a
jury and held an inquest at 2
o'clock. The jury was composed
of w. T. Collins, G. R. Arterburn,
VIM. Palmer, S. P. Garrison, S. w.
Ireland and r. R. Froman. DR..
Coleman testified as to contents of
the glass as we'll as to the condi-
ton of the patient before he died.
The colored waiter at the hotel
testified that he saw Mr.. Edes come
into the dining room and get a
glass of water and put in what he
thought. was medicine and return
up stairs The Jury returned a
verdict finding that the deceased
came to his death by his own
hand.
H. I. Tilden was notified at Isa-
bel and he came as soon as posi-
bic and took charge of the body.
1t was turned over to Undertaken
Adams and the funeral was held
at 10 o'clock a. m. Monday. No
services were held. Friends met
at the court house and the remains
were conveyed from there to High
land cemetery and inferred.
A daughter, Mrs. ]. S. McCauley,
resides in Wichita but Mr.. Tilden
was unable to reach her by phone
and the body could not be kept
until word could be received. A
brother and two sisters in Illinois
survive the deceased. Mr.. Tilden
is Captain Edes' son-in- law, his
wife having died many years ago.
Captain Edes was once one of
Barber county's most wealthy
ranch owners and grain growers.
In the nineties he owned a large
tract of land in Valley township,
and employed many men. He was
a great producer but reverses came,
partly on account of his faults and
partly of the inevitable. Eight
years ago he went to Chicago and
he was found by his relatives with
difficulty and finally persuaded to
go to Wichita to live with his
daughter. He became diSSatihed
there and three weeks ago came to
Barber county again. He talked
with his friends here about the
advisability of applying for ad-
mittance to the poor farm and he
finally consented to make the ap-
plication, but the application was
refused by the commissioners for
the reason that he was not a citi-
zen. He could have been admit
ted to the poor house at Wichita
but he refused to go there.
1t is one of the most pitiable
cases that has ever come to our
observation. Here was a man in
his 83rd year penniless and home
less. He had nearly all his life
been a wealthy man and by reason
of good breeding and lofty ideas,
was too proud to beg. In his lat
ter years he had often told men
that he some day expected to
end his life and it is presumed that
he came to this city for that pur-
pose, ifhis appeals for aid were