Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1912 — LAFAYETTE COUPLE DRINK CARBOLIC ACID. [ARTICLE]

LAFAYETTE COUPLE DRINK CARBOLIC ACID.

Fulfill Suicide Pact, Ending Lives 111 Hotel in Kankakee, Illinois, After Writing to Relatives. Madly In love with each other, Ross Morgan, 21 years old, married man and father, and Pearl Wiley, one year his senior, both of Lafayette, committed suicide in the Commercial hotel at Kankakee, 111., Monday morning. They had gone to the hotel from Lafayette Sunday afternoon and registered as Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Long, of Lafayette, Morgan leaving his wife and two children, one an infant only a few days old, at his home in that city. Letters left by the couple addressed to relatives show that their death was pie result of a pact made some time ago. The woman first swallowed carbolic acid and the man rushed to the hotel .office, told the proprietor his wife had taken poison and called a doctor. He then returned to the room and took his own fatal dose. The woman was a divorcee, having resumed her maiden name after separation from her husband, whose name was Black. With her parents she moved to Lafayette from Yorktown, Ind., about a year ago. Morgan’s parents live in Leonard, 111.