Evening journal., 1913-10-30
ACID QUAFF
ENDS LIFE OF
YOUNG MAN
Joseph FARRELL Found UnCOn-
SCiOuS on Sidewalk on East
Fifth Street
TOLD FRIEND OF TROUBLES
OVER YOUNG WOMAN

UVEk YUUNG hOMAN
Found lying on the sidewalk in
front of a house at No. 800 East Fifth
street last night, about 8 o'clock. JOS
eph farrell, aged % years driver
of one of the United States mail
wagons of John Knots, was taken to
the Delaware Hospital IN an uncon-
scious condition as a result Of car
bolic acid poisoning and died in about
20 minutes after arriving there.
He took the poison with suicidal
intent. A young man located this
morning by reporter Of THE EVEN
ING JOURNAL, said that he had been
with farrell only a short time before
he took the poison and farrell had
told him that he intended to commit
suicide because of worry over another
woman, who was not his wife. The
young man said that farrell told him
that he had become involved with the
girl and that he had decided the best
way out Of the matter was TO end it
all by killing himself The young
man thought that FARRELL was fooling
him and did not take his assertions
seriously at the time.
farrell has been going to a house
on Fifth street fer several days. He
told the young man located by THE
EVENING JOURNAL that the. girl
over whom he intended to kill him
self lived on East Fifth street.
Whether she lived in this house is
not known.
A reporter Of THE EVENING
JOURNAL called at the house No. SO9
East Fifth street this morning and
tried to get some information regard
ing the case, but the occupants Of
the house in front of which farrell
was found refused to say anything
regarding IT, woman came to the
window and when asked If the young
man had been in the house last night,
said that he had not. and that she
knew nothing of the case. When told
by the reporter that he had been told
farrell was in the house, she replied
that she had given her information to
the police and that If he wanted any
he would have to go to them. The oc-
cupants of the house have only lived
there a few days and are not known
to the people in the neighborhOod.
They moved from King street to the
house.
Chief of Police Black said that Jar
.rell had been found in front of the
house He did not know who lived
there or whether the young man had
been in the house last evening. The
coroner will investigate the case this
afternoon. Deputy Coroner Nichols
said he thought there was somethins
mysterious about the case, and thai
The would make an investigation this
afternoon.
farrell was married and has a younl
child, but has not been living with hi
wife. Under an order of Court b.
has been paying 50 per month 70
the support of the child. Yesterda
he talked with his wife and decide
to go back and live with her, and
lis supposed that last night when h
'pondered over his plight he decided [
take carbolic acid.
Since his separation from his VIII,
FARRELL has been living with his fathe
land mother, Mr. and Mrs. Levi Jarrel
Z at No. 2ll East Second street. Mr.. Jar
rell is employed at the American Ca
and Foundry Company. He said that hi
son worked all day yesterday and cam
home after making his o'clock tri
with the mail as usual He said tina
his son appeared to be in a very zoo
humor and told him that his wife ba
come down on Poplar street yesterda
ITO see him and that he had decided (
live with her again and that matter
would be patched up. He gave his fathe
a receipt from Humane Agent Fran
Stout. showing that he had paid 50 fc
the support of his child, and after eatin
his supper, went out.
Mr.. Jarrell would not believe his SO
committed suicide when seen by a r,
PORTER of THE JOURNAL this mornin.
lie said that the boy had been in IN
Fifth street house last night and ha
been going there for several days. II
said that he had seen the woman in th
house and that she told him of seein
his son with poison tricklng out of tn
corners of his mouth last night IN
father says that when he examined tt
bows lips and corners of his mouth
found that thew were not burned bv III
acid. He also said that the woman tol
him that the bottle that had held II
acid was in the backyard, but when b
asked for il she told him that it coul
not be found The father, howeve
thinks that the boys life could haN
been saved had the police acte
promptly.
Il ain an old man." he said, as Il
tears came 70 his eyes. "but ! hay
worked hard and saved some none
and I am going to see this cas-
through. When my boy lay writhir
with pain on the sidewalk last nigh
policeman sent away the ambulanC
that called to take him to the hospita
because he thought he was drunk an
waited for the patrol. It's a poo
policeman that can't tell a drunke
man from one suffering from carbol
acid poisoning and had my boy bee
taken to the hospital his life might
some chance have been saved
When James J. Patterson, driver
the Phoenix ambulance, was seen tn
morning he said that the ambulan'
went down after the man and arrive
there several minutes before Il
police patrol. but the policeman to
him that the patrol would take u
man and wanted to know who sent Il
the ambulance. I'VE could have Ia
him in the ambulance and gone befol
'he patrol arrived said Mr.. Pate
son.