The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-07
CHARLES HOLT DEAD
COMES FROM EFFECTS OF DOSE OF
 STRYCHNINE.
Popular Citizen And Valued Employe
 Of City Water Works Depnrt-

From troubles which he thought were more than he could stand, Charles N. Holt, bookkeeper of the City Water Works Department, and one of the best known citizens of Montgomery. took his release yesterday morning. In the office of the Water Works Depart ment, Mr.. Holt took strychnine at 9:3o o'clock yesterday morning and he died two hours later, a few minutes after he was taken to St. Margaret's Hospital,
 Mir. Holt has been sufferer from heart trouble and he had for some time taken strychnine for relief from his excruciating pain. His illness was accompanied by spells of despondency in which he brooded over his troubles. His intimate friends knew that MT. Holt felt that his life had not been a success. In his Respondent moments he would feel keenly the disappointment of his hopes for material success. In such period yesterday morning his life was ended.
 Mir. Holt's accounts with the Water Works Department were absolutely correct. Superintendent McDun Cain yesterday spoke of him and his service to the city with the highest praise. He was, Mir. Cain said, held in the highest esteem both as an officer of the city and as a man. There never was the shadow of suspicion on his accounts.
 MT. Holt reached the Water Works Department in the city building yes- terdaN morning at o'clock. To his associates in the office he was appar- ently as cheerful and as self poised as he ever was. At 9:30 o'clock he was sitting in chair in the rear of the office. Cashier F. c. Schwend in the front office called to him and asked where Nick Jones, another bookkeeper in the office, had gone. MT. Holt re- piled that he had asked him to go out and get MT. Cain, as he wished to speak to him.
 A few minutes later MT. Holt walk ed into a rear room and lay down up- on a lounge. From this lounge he called MT. Schwend to him. He told the cashier what he had done.
 He was quite collected, saying that he had taken the drug at least half an hour before. MT. Schwend over the phone quickly summoned Drs. Greil and Billing, but the summons. as quick as 1t was, was too late. Everything possible was done for MT. Holt but the drug had already taken effect. MT :. Cain and other friends hurried in. Mir. Holt was quite calm.
 A carriage was called and MT. Holt was hurried sto St. Margarets Hospi- tai by Mir. Cain. He died at II 10, few minutes after his arrival at the hospital
 MT. Holt was 46 years of age. He was son of Colonel John Henry Holt--a distinguished Confederate sol dier, who died from the effects of a wound received at Chicka- mauga.s Colonel Holt was at that time commanding a battalion of Hilliard's Legion.
 MT. Holt is survived by an aged mother, his wife, a son and three daughters. He Is also survived by a brother MT. N. B. Holt, a we'll known business man, and sister, Mrs. Lucy Phillips. for several years a teacher in the Montgomery public schools.
 No man in Montgomery had more friends, for he possessed the qualities
 which attracted and held friendship. He was always courteous. considerate and le-minded and gentie-hearted He was affectionate in his family, and with them this entire community sym pathizes in their great sorrow.
 The funeral will take place this af- ternoon at 4 o'clock from his late res- idenee 314 Madison avenue.