Arizona republican., 1910-10-16
THERE GOES
 NOTHING" Thus Spoke Everett HadloCk As He Swallowed Poison SUICIDE OF MESA CITY MAN
Intemperance and Domestic Infelicity Given as Req sons for His Unnatural Act-Leaves Wife and Two Children.

Carefully pouring thirty grains of strychinine into a glass partly filled
 with water, mixing the same with steady hand until the poison had be-
 come thoroughly dissolved. and then
 in the presence of his wife and two children who lay on a bed and saw his actions. Everett Paddock about lO;3O
 Friday night at the home of his wife's parents. a mile northeast of the city, where he had been stopping. raised the
 deadly potion to his lips as he in determined manner repeated the toast,
 Here goes nothing" and within two hours was a corpse.
 The funeral will be held from the Baptist church this morning at 10 o'clock with Rev. c. Sidney Maddox officiating, after which interment will
 be made in the Mesa secemtery. The deceased leaves a wife and two small
 children, the younger only a little over | a year old, as well as his parents, MT.
 and Mrs. J. L. Hadlock, and six broth CTS.
 | A cOrOners jury was summoned yes terdav morning by Justice Irwin and l after ton undertaking parlors went out to the scene of the tragedy, after which | they returned a verdict that the de
 ceased came to his death by strychnine
 administered by his own hand and with
 suicidal intent | The real motive for the act although
 somewhat in question, is generally at
 tributed to domestic infelicity probably
 brought about by the continued use of
 intOxcants.
 On the evening of the 18th of OctO- Der at the Crescent drug store was purchased an eighth of an ounce of strychnine ostensibly for the purpose of killing cats. Friday the deceased
 was in town for a greater part of the day and had been drinking. In com
 pany with Clyde Winterberger, who is
 neighbor, the two went to the home of Hadlock. A cot was fixed for Win terberger in an adjoining room to that being occupied by HadlOck, his wife and two children. The partition sep arating the rooms is made of light ma terial, and according to the evidence of Winterberger on the stand at the cor Oners inquest he was able to hear all that was being said by the nan and wife, and his inference was that Mrs. Paddock was taking Ter husband to task for drinking. He also heard her say to him that surely it was only salts that he was taking. However, after a few minutes after the conver- sation relative to salts, Mrs. Hadlock, according to Winterberger called to him to come quick that Everett was fn tai R dressed n
 rapidly as he could and going to the
 door saw the young man mixing the
 poison in the glass and seeing the
 dregs and after hearing the conversa-
 tion naturally supposed that it was salts However, upon inquiry Paddock
 in a lauging manner remarked to Win
 terberger that 1t was poison and that
 he could not feel that which he had already taken and that he believed he would take some more. Pouring the remaining thirty grains of poison into the glass and adding more water he again raised the glass and drank. Win terberger caught sight of the label on the bottle and at once surmised the truth and started for a physician. Dr. Nelson answered the call and was at the scene of the tragey within a few minutes He succeeded in reducing the pulse. which, when he arrived, was too rapid for calculation, but convulsions soon followed and continued until death came as a relief.
 Mrs Paddock after calling to Win terberger ran to her mothers room to summon assistance. They returned within a few minutes. The man bent upon his own destruction carefully picked out a suit of underwear and as he did so remarked, This will save them some trouble. He later kissed his babies who lay sleeping on the bed in the room and lay down to die.
 Soon after the arrival of the parents of Mrs. Hadlock they began 10 admin ister emetics, but the patient refused to swallow any medicine calculated to cause vomiting or to counteract the poison. When told that a physician had been summoned, he remarked that it would do no good as he would not take the medicine.
 Everett Hadlock was born in Louisa county, Iowa, in 1888 and came to Mesa with his parents and brothers six years ago Four years ago he was united in marriage to Ina DrOrbaugh, the daughter of MT and Mrs Dan Dror- baugh, well known residents of this section. For several months there has been considerable trouble between the deceased and his wife. They decided to separate upon two different occasions but later reconsidered their actions. The young man has been drinking con