Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1912 — FORMED HABIT IN PRACTICE [ARTICLE]

FORMED HABIT IN PRACTICE

Dentist Who ’Took Life Told Friends How lie Became Cocaine Fiend Lafayette, Ind., July is,—investigation by the coroner has revealed that Dr. Floyd E Cording, the young dentist whose body was found in the weeds along the bank pf the Wabash river, south of the city. Tuesday, with an empty cocaine bottle an<l a note be-ide it, was despondent over financial and domestic affairs, and that 'he had made threats before to take his life. The coroner learned that Cording was addicted to the use of cocaine, and that he had frequently told friends that he contracted the habit while using the medicine in his practice. The day before the body was found -Mrs. Cording consulted an attorney regarding a divorce and the suit was to have been brought this week. < ording s father had assisted him out of one financial difficulty a few months ago, and recently he and his wife mortgaged their household furniture to raise the interest on a mortgage carried by Mrs. Cording on some Indianapolis property. Instead of paying the interest Cording spent the money, it is said, and it was remorse over this that caused him to commit suicide. The body was taken to his home in Shawnee Mound, this county, yesterday afternoon for burial.