The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-11-26
VICTOR TURNER
KILLS HIMSELF
Old Son of Railroad Conductor Drinks Carbolc
Acid In the Presence of His Sweetheart Lbbie
Dies Before Medical Aid Reaches Him-No Explanation
of the Sucde-Story of the Girl.

1 Between heartrending sobs that
shook her whole body Miss Brown
attempted 10 explain 10 a represen-
tativc of this paper the terrible deed
She stated that there was absolutely
no reason for the boy committing the
| rash act There had been no differ,
I ences between them and she could
not account for him doing it at all.
| On one or two other occasions, she
| had stated that the poy had grown
| melancholy and said that he was go
| Ing TO join the man with the cross
bones" some day.
Young Turner arrived at the Brown
home early to spend rbe evening and
later 10 go TO his mothers home. MT
| and Mrs Brown. before leaving the
house to 20 10 the city to attend a
moving picture show, asked Turner
If he would be there when they re-
turned and he laughed and said,
Yes. We viii be here We always
arc"
AS soon as the Browns had left,
according to the story told BY Miss
Brown. she and Turner were sitting
in the front room. He was telling her
what he intended 10 do in the future
In regard TO securing a Job on the
railroad as a fireman, how he would
buy a horse and buggy with which
they could go driving. Once or twice
in the middle of his talk of his future
prospects. he spoke dejectedly. He
arose and took n small watch from
his pocket and handed 1t to the girl.
saying that it was for her and
he wanted her TO have II when
he was through with it. She told him
to put It In his pocket and stop talk
ing such nonsense, but he persisted
In her taking the watch Ito remember
him by" and when she refused to do
so he laid II on the stand and walked
into the kitchen. The girl sat few
minutes in the front room alone but
when she heard him say, II am going
TO join the man with the cross-bones,"
she rushed TO the Kitchen He was
replacing on the top of the stove the
bottle OF carbolic acid that Mr.. Brown
had used to dress q wound on horses
shoulder. but which was answering as
a messenger of death
Before he took the poison the girl
asked him a number of times If IL
was not time they we're starting for
his mothers. He said that when they
passed through town that she could
keep on the car and go to his home,
that he wanted to stop AT the drug
store, get some medicine and then go
TO some room to write some letters
and he could see her later"
Miss Brown stated that on WedneS-
day evening, at the Turner home, the
eiGht-year-old sister of Victor had
told. between sobs. how she had seen
in vision or dream, the night before.
something which seemed TO say.
Victor is going TO kill himself" When
the girl said this, Victor patted her
on the head and told her not to cry.
that there would be nothing like that
happen.
Turner had been keeping company
with Miss Brown for about six months,
She repeatedly denied that there had
ever been any trouble between them
and said thoy had been very good
friends. She denied ever giving
him any cause for jealousy and said
that since she had been going with
him" she had not gone ont with any
body else
Turner worked in the railroad shops
and made many friends.