Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1912 — Takes Polson; Begs to Live. [ARTICLE]

Takes Polson; Begs to Live.

Muncie, Dec. 6. —Sitting on a davenport in the parlor of his home, John H. Stevens, forty-five years old, a shipping clerk employed at a local gear factory, swallowed a quantity of strychnine and died a short time later. Stevens was found in a dying condition by his wife, who was hanging up clothes when she heard her husband •cream. Physicians were summoned and Stevens begged them to save his life, but the poison had done its work

and he died in his wife’s arms. He gave no reason for his act.