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Show SHAMMING THEY FOUGHT BUT THIS TIME HE DIED. ELKHART. Ind.. Oct'. 1'.. Charles Bridge, aged 0. was taken 111 yesterday shortly after his return home, and he told his wife and children he had taken strychnine with suicidal Intent. He had often threatened to kill himself, and the family believed he was feigning, as usual. Even when he waa seized with convulsions convul-sions they thought he was shamming. Finally he exhibited a small bottle containing con-taining a white powder, saying It was a part of what he had swallowed. This alarmed the wife, and Dr. Dewey was summoned, but before he arrived Bridge died. |