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Show WIFE WAS RETURNING WHEN LA PLANT DIED . . ... . .... When Napoleon P. La Plant, a brick-mason, brick-mason, 26 years old, took one-sixteenth of an ounce of strychnine with suicidal intent Monday afternoon, as told in .The Telegram Monday, his wife, who had filed divorce proceedings against him, was speeding to him from Canyon City, Colo., to effect- a reconciliation and withdraw the divorce complaint. La Plant was heartbroken because of the separation, and after writing several sev-eral notes to his wife and to his friends, took the fatal dose. . His wife, a young and. beautiful woman, wo-man, had changed her mind about the divorce, and had taken the train to I come to htm a few hours before he died1. She received word of his death while on the train. Coroner Dana T. Smith, after learning the circumstances surrounding La Plant's death, decided that no inquest would be held. |