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Frank Farley Claimed Woman Was About to Drink Chloroform and Wanted to Save Her. WAS FINALLY SENT HOME The police were called upon last night to stop a suicide. At least this is what Frank Farley would have had them believe. He came to the officers about nine o’clock and stated that Mrs. Mary Sweet had purchased a vile of chloroform from a local drug store with the intentions of kil ling herself. He pleaded with the police to aid him in rescueing the woman from such an untimely death and his plea was so earnest that he cried and sobbed. The officers went with him to Mrs. Sweet’s appart ments in the Commercial Block and found her sitting in a chair, laughing and in a good humor with seemingly little thought of suicide. The result of this was that Farley got angry and wanted to arrest the druggist. He claimed that the drug gist had no right to sell chloroform without a prescription. Farley per sisted in filing an affidavit and the police had to get the prosecutor out of his bed, but no action was taken. It is thought the woman had no in tentions of taking the poison and the affair ended by Farley being sent home.
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Rushville Daily Republican
Rushville, Indiana, US
Wed, May 17, 1911
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