A QUEER SUICIDE
Sitting Down to Dinner With a Poisoned and Dying Husband.
Sunday afternoon, a white man by the name of M. M. Ivey of Baldwin
and a son in law of Mayor Benjamin Upton of that place, killed himself by taking
morphine. He was employed by Messrs. Alsop & Clark, doing some work at their
log camps, some distance from Baldwin, on the Transit road but since Christmas
had been drinking considerably. He went home from his work Sunday, partly under
the influence of liquor. At 12:30 p.m. he signified his determination to take
morphine and thus end his existence, and at once put about two spoonsful of the
poison in a tumbler and walked to the well for some water to take with it. His
wife went out and begged him not to take the poison. He had his knife in his hand
with which he threatened to cut her throat if she interferred. He then turned
round and drank the poison. The family went immediately into dinner and while
eating he fell asleep. He was removed to a bed and every possible effort made
to counteract the action of the poison but to no effect and he died Sunday night
at 11 p.m.
He leaves a wife and four little children.
Florida
Times Union - Tuesday, 15 January 1884
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