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Show .DRINKS POISON AND RUNS TO MORGUE Machinist Tries to 8ave Trouble, but a Friend Balks Qood Intentions. Inten-tions. Philadelphia. Having drunk car hollo acid, Cordon Hales sal down upon tho step or tho morgue to die. This unique action seemed to speak more strongly than any word that i ho might hnto written or snld that ho desired to lesson, ns far as was In his power, tho troublo that his fatal Iraught would be to other. Hut his ' death wits slower than ho had rnl-' ciliated, so that after all hi foro- - -MMM!tM- 1 I I ! rfT- He Ran to the Morgue to Die. thought ho traveled to tho morgue by way of tho Hahnemann lumpltal. ' Hates, who was 3U years old. and tlvod In Wood stieel. a half block 'rom tho morgue, thought he wa folng to die from consumption Key-'nil Key-'nil friends and relative bail gone hat way, and he became dally more onoly and dMondout. Dually, hav- , ng nerved himself to the final strug-' lie, ho drew from his pocket a bottle nil of onrbollo nclil and lod of ho contents, while standing vear his andlndy, Mrs. Annie llrogaii, wkoee lusband, Cormliu. died from eon-iimptlnn eon-iimptlnn a couple of months ago, Mrs. Drogan, In her ulforl to pre-'cut pre-'cut his swallowing the poleon, was overely btirnod iiikjii tho arms by omo of tho liquid "Now I'm going down to tho lorgtio," wore the man's parting 'orda, as suffering the first nmmy of ao doath struggle, ho ran ft urn the oo r. Ho nnd Just sunk upon the step of lo morgue, whim one of his friend, nlgolm Cochran, a plumber, cswe tip ! nd asked him what was the mat! T. I "Pvo Just drank jmon, and I'm dc ig." was tho nwpoiiee. Ami 'tlw Next dnuto ho suuk Into a ttupw " rosoutly onded In death eu the way , o tho hospital. i Hates, who wns a machinist nt llnld-win's, llnld-win's, ciimu hvii rnim Hlllvllio, Warren War-ren county, New York, two years ago. Ills ouly known relative nro two sitters sit-ters In Hint place. |