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Show The Ciooil 1'le Youne. St. Joskimi, Mo., Sept. 13.-Speeial.l John Thornton, a 12-year-old son of Jesse Thornton, a farmer resoling twelve miles east of St. Joseph, suicided last night hy stychuine. Dtir.ng the day he went to a drug store at darks-dale, darks-dale, where he purchased the poison on the pretense that his father wanted it. Returning home he went to the watermelon water-melon patch and broke open a melon He then poured the strychnine into the melon and silting down in the patch "Ic over half of it! He was dead when found, and it is supposed his death was almost instantaneous. No cause cau He assigned for the rash deed. |