The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-24
TOOK THE POISON
AND DIED IN ROOM
Frank S. Hood Had Been Dead
Two Days
LEAVES NOTE FOR MOTHER
Entered Room Thursday, Locked the
Door, Took Morphine and Was
Found Only Yesterday BY
Proprietor of House.
LEAVES NOTE FOR MOTHER

Driven to suicide by drink was the
substance of the verdict given by Coroner
| Paris after examining into the circum-
stances of the death of Frank S. Hood.
! The dead body of the man was found
| in a room at 1S02la First avenue yes
terday morning at o'clock. 1t was lying
| across a bed, and was drawn into an
unnatural posture by the last struggles
! against the poison. In his trousers pocket
was box containing morphine, while a
5O-cent bottle of the drug, about half
| empty, was lying near his hand. In his hip
| pocket was a loaded revolver.
| Leaves Note.
| All of his clothes were on the per-
! son, and in one pocket the following note
| was discovered:
! March Twentieth
| ITO Who Gets This:
Send me to Lige 10y and telegraph
| to my mama at 100 Ohio street, Helena.
| Arkansas, and my mama will look after
| me. Please let her know at once. Her
son. FRANK S. HOOD"
! Immediately after he was found by the
proprietor of the place Coroner Paris
was Summoned and he made thorough
| investigation He found that the man had
! been dead two or more days, and that de-
! composition had begun to set In The
! body was Immediately turned over to
| Lige 10y and all other instructions en-
| bodied in the note were carried out.
Hood was last seen on Thursday morn
ing when he entered the boarding house.
anu was seen as he passed into his room
| nv I pIp
moved from the place the previous day,
| Yarbrough thought he was after some-
thing forgotten, and paid no attention
! to him.
Found BY Proprietor.
Tie fellow evidently went to his little
room, locked the door and took his poi
son. Yesterday morning the proprietor
was collecting the linen when he found
tn3 door locked, broke in and came upon
the CHASTITY spectacle.
1t IS said that just last Monday Hood
and his wife separated, and she went to
| Kingston, When she viewed the remains
| at the undertakers she seemed grieved
at the death of her husband. As re-
questsd in the note the mother was noti
fled and a telegram which arrived last
night asked that the funeral be delayed
until she could get here
AT the Birmingham Railway, Light and
| Po' er company's power house, where he
worked as machinist, the employees were
| surprised and shocked. He had spent
| twenty of his forty years at the plant,
| ana was well liked.
the issuing of an additional amount of
| bonds to be added to this 100000 mile,
and then to claim at our courts the right
to exercise the functions of increased
charges on the business of Alabama to
pay interest on. same. In other words,
exactng further tribute from the bus
| mess of this state to secure the fotation
! of securities on Wall street.
ITO illustrator At the Avondale mills
we are going to throw out the old looms
! in our mill and put in new ones at an
additional and heavy cost. We are not
going to put additional bonds on the mill;
we are going to take the credit of the
mill and the incomes from the business
of the mill to make these improvements,
and il in the making of these improve
ments we can not pay interest or divi-
dends to our stockholders then interest
will stop until after the mill has caught
up with expenses.
Ought to Be In Jail.
| "And it seems to be q climax of faith,
climax that goes beyond the Dowie pc
Rod even, to ask the citizens of Ala
bama to stand aside with our protecting
| laws while such transactions as that
| shown by the Hartman method of rum
ming roads are abroad in the land-trans-
actions that Senator Cullom of Illinois
says ought to put Mr.. Hartman in the
penitentiary, and 1 rather think Senator
Cullom is right.
IN all kindness to Mr. Finley, l want
| to assure him that coming from my faith
in the righteousness of the people of Ala
bama, l feel sure that they will extend ia
his company every degree of fairness,
/ and that they will go to the fullest ex-
IRENE Of mind and Drawn to furnish bust
mess for his company; but also that they
are going to exact from his company
the last degree of fairness, and we had
rather do it by the limitations of law than
by continued faith in a foreign trust.
Will Stay Forever.
"This legislation has not come to stay
four years. as intmated by Mr.. Thorn,
general counsel for the Southern railway.
1t is here, l believe. 1 trust and 1 pray,
forever, and l would challenge any man
to go before the people of Alabama and
demand the cancellation of any one jot
| or one title of 1t. These laws are writ
ten in the utmost fairness to every rail-
road in the state, and 1 can assure them
that under this administration, and l feel
sure of the next and the next, and still
further, the next, that the people will
demand and should demand the fun exc
cution of the same"
Bush Asked for Statement.
Col. T. G. Bush was asked last night