The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1916-03-10
YOUNG MAN
TAKES OWN LIFE
Carroll L. Dudderar Returns Home
from Horse Sales Dependent
and Ends 1t All.

Carroll L. Dudderar, one of the
best known young men of Stanford
took his own life about nine o'clock
Thursday morning at the home of his
aunt, Mrs. George F. DeBorde and
Mr.. DeBorde. The young man swal-
lowed about an eighth of an ounce
of strychnine, and died in a short
time afterward, in terrible convul-
sions. He was conscious almost up
to the moment of death, but gave no
reason for the rash act. He had
come home Wednesday night, how
ever, respondent, after spending a
couple of weeks in Lexington, Louis
vile and Frankfort, and it is believ-
ed that as a result of his condition,
his mir.l was temporarily unbalanced
and he took the fatal step when not
at himself.
News of the young mans death
spread like wild-fire over town and
sympathy for the relatives is wide
spread. Ordinarily of a genial and
friendly nature, the young man was
d SSnCI al IdfOllIS, anu HublUCISu iiio
friends by his acquaintance. He
was easily one of the best horsemen
in the saddle horse business in this
section of the state, and liked nothing
better than to be astride a good ami
NAL. He had great success in hand
ling them and could get every ounce
of worth out of one in the show ring
A number of local gentlemen put
horses they had for sale in his charge,
when he went to Lexington ten days
or two weeks ago to the sales there.
They were sold well, and the local
owners received checks promptly for
their animals. Mr.. Dudderar sold
two of his own at the same time and
though he was expected back immedi-
ately, did not come, but spent the
time with friends in several cities.
Mr. and Mrs. DeBorde and Fox Dud-
derar, his uncle, had made inquiries
for him, and were beginning to be-
come uneasy. He came in on Train
No. 81 Wednesday night, however,
and found Mr.. and Mrs. DeBorde
waiting up for them. To them he
talked nationally for a few minutes,
but remarked to has aunt that he
felt very bad She made him go to
bed, which he readily agreed to do,
saying that he would get up in the
morning and put everything in shape.
Thinking he needed sleep, Mrs. De-
Borde did not call young Dudderar
for early breakfast, but let him
sleep, and about eight o'clock went
upstairs to his room and found him
awake. He complained of feeling
very badly, and she told him to come
down and drink a cup of coffee and
he would feel better. She left him,
and went to the kitchen. Shortly
en-, clad in nothing but his night
clothes and a dressing gown and said
that he wanted striped coat to put
on. Mrs. DeBorde saw that he was
not at himself, and persuaded him to
return to his room to dress. Mean
while she went into another room to
clean up, and shortly afterward
heard him calling her. She went into
his room, and found him suffering
greatly, and he informed her that he
had taken poison. Thinking that he
was joking, Mrs. DeBorde told him to
quit talking that way and to get up.
Again he assured her that he had
taken poison and told her to look in
his pants pocket and she would find
the empty bottle. She made a search
and found a bottle, with just enough
strychnine left in it to cover the bot
tie. He told her that he had drank
the rest.
Mrs. DeBorde Immediately sent
for her husband who was in the
courthouse, and he ran to DR.. w. B.
O'Bannon's and secured that physi-
clan and stomach pump, and then
got DIR. j. G. Carpenter. By the time
the physicians got to work, the young
man was suffering horribly, going
from one CONFUSION to another, with
brief lucid intervals, and although
the contents of his stomach were
emptied with the stomach pump, such
quantity of the poison had been
taken that it had gotten in its deadly
work all too soon and he passed away
within few minutes, despite every
thing that could be done for him.
Carroll Dudderar would have been
% years of age within a very short
time, and was the only son of the
late Will Dudderar, who was a son
of the late Col. Huff Dudderar, one
of the best known citizens of Lincoln
county I'm his day. The young mans
mother, was a daughter of Mr.. Peyt
Parrish, of the Preachersville section.
He was their only child, and after
the death of his parents, was reared
by Col. and Mrs. Dudderar and since
their death few years ago, had
made his home while i'm Stanford with
his aunt, Mrs. DeBorde, who was al
most second mother to him, and
did everything for him in her power.
He was the pet of all the large fam
lily, who have the deepest sympathy
of the entire community i'm this hour
of their aff1ictinn and bereavement.
Owing to the distance which some
of the members of the family will
have to come, funeral services will
not be held until SATURDAY afternoon
at 2:30 o'clock. Services will be
conducte by Rev. u. M. Walker, in