The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-09
SEEKS DEATH
 IN CEMETERY Takes Poison at Grave
 of Wife. AGED MAN TOOLoNELY IoLIvE Saved by Early Arrival of His Son. !. D. sserivether. of Birmingham, De- pressed With the Solitude of His
 Lonesome Life, Attempts
 Suicide in oakwood.
 

Unwilling longer to endure the soi- itude of old age that had been intensf- fed by the death of his wife two years ago, ]. D. Meriwether, standing past the mark of three score and ten, yes- terday morning went to the grave of Mrs. Meriwether in Oakwood Cemetery and there swallowed morphine in an attempt to end his life. He was dis covered at. the grave by his son and was removed to the presence of phy- sicians Just in time for them to save his life.
 He was pronounced last night to be out of danger.
 Mir. Meriwether before he left the home of his son, Eugene Meriwether, at li0 Whitman Street. where he was a guest, intlmated to his daugllter-in- law that he was going to kill himself in Oakwood Cemetery and she sent q telephonic message to her husband to advise him of his fathers intentions. The son immediately hastened thither and by prompt action saved his father from death.
 MT. Meriwethe CT. who is seventy-one years old. is believed to have become morbid since his return to the city from Birmingham, in which he has re- sided since the death of his wife two years ago. He lived with his wife in
 
 and the familiarity of environment in which he and his wife had lived Is presumed to have made his sadness positive n1elancholia. Ever since his return to the city to visit his son he had given evidence of great depres- sion.
 Mr. Meriwether left the home of his son at s:30 o'clock yesterday morning His son, Eugene Meriwether, who is ra.. tion, had already departed. When the elder Mir. Meriwether quilted his daughter-in-law he announced that he was going to the grave Of his wife to take poison.
 Alarm of Danger fs Made.
 Mrs. Meriwether immediately tele- phoned MT. Meriwether. the younger, at his office and with all possible haste he went to Oakwood Cemetery. There on the grave of his mother. he found the old man. It was said by physi- clans who attended him that 1t was probably the enormous dose of the drug he had taken that saved him. At that time he was in bad condition but still conscious.
 With notable intelligence Mir. Msri- wether, the son. made the old man walk into the city so that the effects of the drug were postponed until the sick man could be attended by phy- sician. First he was taken to a drug store and afterwards to hospital. After heroic treatment was rendered him ths+physicians said he would prob ably recover though the infrnaities of age render his case more nearly des- perate than 1t would be if the patient were q younger man.
 That MT. Merlwether had completed the plans for his death was proven by the piteous placard that was found upon his wife's grave. It was a rough piece of pasteboard and upon 1t was written instructions that his body be taken to the home of hts son. Willie Meriwether, on the Red Bridge Road.
 Mir. Meriwether is a carpenter. Be- fore his removal to Birmingham he was employed in the shops of several of the railroad companies in Mont gomery.
 At St. Margaret's Hospital where the patient is being treated 1t was stated last night that he would recover.