People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1897 — A Mother-in-Law’s Bite [ARTICLE]

A Mother-in-Law’s Bite

Driven a Draxil Jlan to Take Hie Own Life. Brazil, Ind., March I.—Alexander McClelland, of Harmony, made a desperate attempt to commit suicide here yesterday. A few days ago he had a fight with his mother-in-law, in which his right thumb was bitten off. Blood poisoning resulted, and he suffered terrible pain. He determined upon self destruction, and drank the contents of a bottle filled arnica and also swal- • lowed other drugs, but without result. Hb then came here and secured morphine, which he also swallowed. He was found lying in a saloon, and physicians succeeded in saving his life. Today his body is terribly swollen and discolored, the resuit of blood poisoning, and it is now believed that he will die.