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to assume-her duties: along that {line:r.William EllisEnds Own LifeIn HannibalM. ‘ 'Hannibal, Mo., March . 23.—God Bless Me,” Cried j William1 Ellis, .74years old, as;he raised a 4-ounoe«* * ' -_ * *phial of carbolic acid to his:lips and* : drank a portion-of it. Ellis was’standing at the entrance to City ./park,Fifth and Broadway, at 11:20 o’clock Saturday when he committed the rash act He died one and one-half hours later at Levering hospital without haying regained consciousness.; David E. Dexheimer, living' yrest ofthis city, was standing - not; far from tHe man when he raised the iphiaT toV*. r . * .his lips. Dexheimer * saw; at once that he Intended committing suicide and ran towards him. He knocked the* ■ *, ‘ » i 1bottle from his hands,, but it was too late, Ellis having /drunk two ounces of -the fiery liquid; . ’ / V-i :The man muttered seveVar: wordsI “ 1 % ,about haying relatives ; in, Hannibal. and then fell to the sidewalk. , He: was, placed in a farm wagon; arid taken to the police, station; where Dr. J* C., Chilton. was ^ summoned: . It is be-, lieved the -man’s mind, was deranged-as‘he acted strafigely' at“ times. t That he had planned ;;the rash * ; act'was shown by the fact that before leaving home in the mornirig, Ellis had told his son he was - going .to buy some xnedicine and that if he:did not return for dinner that they heed hot! look* x ' * ■ ’ * * * *i. r ' . . • • • *for him. * • \ -•.;, - • : *•., •Ellis returned to •thls clty only a week ago from Quincy where he:had been an inmate of the Soldlers’Home. Previous to going to the Home, for-several months , he had :eonducted an oculist’s shop on South Fifth 'Street.. Two sons ^nd - two - daughters, survive as follows: Mrs; Josephine Cole-, man, of Gordon - street;. Fred/El 1 is, of Keokuk, ,1a.;.'Mrs,Viola;Middaugh; of IJrich, MoV, and, John Ellis, of Hannibal. , Ellis was .74 years old' Saturk day. - ; v \ ,-.v ’iliiiv. nnn-fn no un ■ nuorn
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Quincy Journal

Quincy, Illinois, US

Mon, Mar 23, 1914

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