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RELATIVES THINK IT WAS SWAL■ i iLOWED BY MISTAKE—|M-*PROVED TODAY.Prank Conner, - a .well known mai living on South Dougherty street, wa: in a serious condition Saturda; night and: Sunday as (the result o drinking a^quantity of ^hloroform. To day be is improved'and will be a: well as ever in a few. days.Conner is said to have retired lat Saturday night and about 1 o’cloclSunday morning his son, Harry, baipened in his room and found him ian unconscious condition. Dr. L. ASpaulding was immediately summor ed and was able to rjevive the mai in. about an hour.It is reported today that Conne has nothing to say regarding th-cirinking of the chloroform and thlt; relatives say it was taken by him b; mistake. The chloroform had no been kept about the premises, how ever, the relatives sayiWrites A bjote.According to late w|rd today Coi ner had been in ill-health for some time and a letter written by the mai and placed at the side of the empt; chloroform bottle showed that Indiank the poison with'suicidal intent*The note asked the relatives to givi his ring to his granddaughter, daugh ter of Mrs. Bertha fieson, after In had passed away. IConner had been working on a ditcl in Rockcreek township.^ and at dit fei’ent times he was overcome by th heat and became irrattlt;%al. It is sup posed he was irratlonaltfrom the hea Saturday and this caused his act. Hi swallowed a half ounce hf chloroform the entire contents of the bottle am the physician worked an hour befon he was able to revive} him. Conne was able to resume his1 work on tin ditch today.
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Bluffton Evening Banner
Bluffton, Indiana, US
Sun, May 24, 1914
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