Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1916 — ATTICA MAN ENDS OWN LIFE [ARTICLE]

ATTICA MAN ENDS OWN LIFE

Bert Fribble Quaff* Fatal Draught After Long Absence from Home. Attica, November 29,—Bert Fribble, 40 years of age, committed suicide here today about 4:30 p, m. by taking carbolic acid. Fribble is said to have been drinking ‘ heavily for several days and had been absent from home since Monday. About 2 o’clock this afternoon he returned to his home in the east part of the city and told his wife he was going to bed. Some time later she heard him groaning and when she entered the room the fumes of carbolic acid greeted her and she found her husband in an unconscious condition. He died before a doctor could fie secured. It is alleged that Pribble had previously threatened to take his | life and on Monday his wife is | said to have taken a bottle of cari bolic acid from , him. Where he secured the poison which he used today is unknown. Pribble had been working at the car coupler factory for the past two months, previous to which time the family resided in Warren county and the deceased worked on a farm for Grant Rice near Judyville. When

the family moved to this city they purchased a home, which they have occupied since that time. Dr. A. C. Howey, coroner of Fountain county, viewed the body and rendered a verdict of suicide. Pribble is survived ;l)y the widow and two children, a daughter 12 years of age and a son I about 20 years of age.