Show DOSE OF CAUSES DEATH John S Williams Finally Ac Accomplishes Accomplishes His Purpose of Self Destruction LINGERS FOR FOUR DAYS USE OF STRYCHNINE FOLLOWS i I ATTEMPT WITH REVOLVER R After four days illness ilIn ss John Shel She Shelton Shelton Sheton ton Williams aged 68 58 years ears and residing ing lug at 1015 West TeSt First South Street succumbed yesterday to an overdose of ci strychnine early carly last Friday morning with what has since appeared to be suicidal intent Int nt Within a space of three weeks Wil WI Williams Hams liams made what seemed to be two de determined determined determined attempts to en his life Ufe the first occurring occulTing Wednesday afternoon Feb 24 when he shot himself in the breast inflicting however only a flesh fIeh h wound from which he quickly recovered reco ered and the second 1 last lat Friday morning when he arose from his bed and took an overdose of strychnine nine When he fell in the throes of the tIu poison polson physicians were summoned and it seemed seethed for a time that his life Hie would be swed Owing to his age and weakened physical condition however he was unable to throw off on the of the drug and died at 1230 yesterday In both instances in the tile face of the strong indications of attempted sui sul suicide fide cide the mans family were firm finn in the belief that been lleen only accidents and scouted 50 ted the idea of lion tion Williams for years past had been m as engineer at the Auerbach Auerba h block on South Main lain street At the lime time of the shooting which occurred at about 3 on the afternoon on of eb b 24 he was engaged In his daily labors being assisted by his son James 10 years of ag age He had b been en In the yard at the rear Tear of the Auerbach block talking with August the jani jan janitor janitor janor tor or and had left him to go into the boiler b iler room where the boy bo was feed feedIng feedIng feedIng Ing the furnaces furnace Telling the lad to put some more coal on the south southside southside side Williams had turned to a shelf and an Instant later the shot tang rang out and the boy bo turned just in time to see his hia father fall The bullet entered the left breast ranging downward but ran Its ourse course little more than At the hospital Williams made a statement to the effect that the shoot shooting ing had been purely accidental and that the revolver had been discharged while he was taking it from the shelf I Although it was said that there had been nothing unusual in Williams ac lions or demeanor that day da nor had he seemed to be worrying the fact that a note was found by the boy in tn the boiler room reading Goodbye e Mamie Jim and Mary God bless you vou ou was taken to mean me n that there had been 1 L i contemplation of death at least Last Friday morning shortly after midnight according to the statement of u h P SLIt wic ur IL arose from irom his bed bad b d and went to the kitchen ably to get a drink of water At t that time he had taken a quantity of str ch lIne and alid immediately fell sick A phy ph whose name was not learned was summoned but refused to MI n tend and nd Dr Wright was called caned In fri and trat ed d the man Towards 6 in lm the Ute morning the police were notified d It s supposed by b the first physician of the incident and the patrol wagon wason was I ent sent to the th house At that time Wit Wil ViI iams dams was found resting easily and ap recovering under the doctors treatment In the latter case the fam ly iy believed also that the strychnine lad been taken accidentally A wife Mrs Mary A Williams three sons Robert John jr and James Jame ind one daughter Mamie survive The re mains are now lying In Eber W Halls linns chapel 26 South West Temple street and ind the funeral arrangements will wilt be bc announced later |