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Canyon City Suicide Tragedy Knows No Christmas Peace
R A Cohoe 24 son of D C Cohor a northern Grant county prominent figure died after taking strychnine in a Christmas evening crisis in Canyon City He had traveled from Harney county to Hamilton and planned the act earlier on Christmas day He obtained poison from a drug store and drank it with water at a hotel after asking for a coffin and a nurse Theresa Mulcare the waitress summoned help but he died within minutes of convulsions
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