The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-06-25
MAN SUICIDES IN NEWBERRY
Drinks CarbOlic Acid and Dies at the
Union Passenger StatiOn-IS
Buried in This City.

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After the Newbe-ry papers lad gone
to press, late Monday afternoon, the
startling news was rapidly spread
over the city that a white man had
killed himself in the union passenger
station room. People who were ac-
customed to reading of similar trag-
eiies in other places Wit. out tremor,
/ snuddered at the thought of the nor
ror of the act in their own community,
and it didn't take long for the crowds
to swarm at the depot. AS soon as the
body was discovered, physicians were
summoned, but life was extinct; the
man had swallowed carbolic acid, and
it is supposed, was dead in half 2our
after drinking the poison. He Iha1
written a note, which he put on his
nat, and then stretched himself on the
floor with his head on bench. 1t
was so clear case Of suicide Coro-
ner Lindsay I.eld no inquest.
Several passengers saw the man
lying in the waiting room, but thought
nothing of it, until drummer ex-
amined the body, having noticed some
t ing wrong The dead man wos re-
moved to P. F. Baxter & Sons under
taking establishment and efforts were
at once made to communicate with nis
family, which were not successful un-
til next day, when the dSief of police
at WATERFORD phoned that the mans
people were not able to look after him.
They requested that he be buried here.
He was accordingly buried at Rose
mont cemetery on Tuesday afternoon
at o'clock, the Rev F. E. Dibble con-
Quoting the service.
The name of the dead man was G..
W. Dunn, as revealed in the note he
left, carefully folded and put into an
envelope, witch he had placed near
his head. The note was plainly writ
ten, and is as follows:
''To the City Authorities of Newberry:
am going to kill .myself-and there
will not be any use in notifying any Of
my people, as would rather they not
know anything about tits. I want the
city to bury me, and after that yon
can write to A. B. Dunn, Round, S.
C. My name is G. w. Dunn"
With the exception of punctuation,
little capitalization and the mis-
spelling of one word 'bury'-he Tad
double in 1.-THE note is as it was
written. 1t was not dated. The envelope
bearing the mark of the Gulf Refining
Co., Atlanta, Ca, was addressed to the
Newberry City Authorities, Newberry,
S. C.
Dunn was about 35 years old. He
had one leg and went on crutches.
He came to Newberry Monday morn
ing, arriving mere on the 5:19 train
from Columbia, as stated by policeman
Ben A. Melton, who came from Colum-
bia that morning on the same train.
The man was about town all day, hav-
ing been noticed by good many peo-
pie. He ate dinner at down town
restaurant kept by Mrs. Smith, leaving
a bundle of clothes there and saying
that he would probably return for sup
per. Policeman Jno. P. Livingston saw
him few minutes before he suicided.
| He was then on his way to the sta
ton. He had bought a pencil and
writing tablet from Hudson & Bouk-
night. There was forty cents in his
pocket. ID.
1t appears that the unfortunate
man tad tried to get work here. MI.
W. H. Hardeman of the Newberry
Cotton mill, says he applied to him for
job, but there was nothing for him
to do there, as machinery mas sup
planted the hand labor the man had
been used to. He tried elsewhere for
work, but failed.
In his dependency, lonely and
J friendless, the crippled stranger with
in our gates, with poverty and no work
staring him in the face, perhaps with
out a home fit to be called a aome,
drank poison and died. He was given
a decent burial. -