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Show BELIEVED . ITAJ0KE Wife Thought Husband in ' Fun When He Toot Poison- PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 18. Because his family thought he was Joking when he declared that he had taken poison, William Graham died at his home. No. 1609 North Dover street, without a physician phy-sician having been called In to attend him. Graham had said nothing to any of his friends or relatives to Indicate that he intended to take his life. He was able to be about and made a number of calls on business. In the evening he called upon a relative and returned to his home about 11 o'clock. His wife was in the kitchen, and going Into that room he produced a bottle containing con-taining a dark brown liquid. "Do you see that?" he asked. "Well, I'm going to drink it," and he swal-Jowed swal-Jowed the contents of the bottle. "Do you know what that was?" he Inquired. "It was laudanum. You won't find out where I got It either, for I've washed the label off." Mrs. Graham thought that he husband hus-band was Joking and that the bottle had contained whisky, which Graham had been forbidden to drink by his physician. physi-cian. "You had better go to bed," she said, and Graham assented. "I've trimmed my lamps," he said, "and everything's all right now." During the night Graham's condition became serious and his wife called in a neighbor. In the past week Graham bad applied for an insurance policy and a physician called to make a physical examinaon of the applicant. Mrs. Graham told him that her husband had been sick all night and asked him if he would not see what the matter was. "Why, the man's dead," said the physician phy-sician after making a brief examination. |