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Show his farm adjoining the farm of nr. Matron who informed me that Mr. Masson and wife had both taken an overdose of laudanum. I futher learned from ur. Munk and Mrs. uasson, who had partially recovered the following facts: That Masson I purchased a three oz. botvje, about filled with.the stupifying draught, the day before, which Wfls Thuisday, the nth Inst. On Eriday, at 7 o'clock he informed his wife that the troubles of this world was raore than he could bear, and he had infonnad his family fami-ly as to the disposition of his property pro-perty beforehand, andheraised the deadly potion to hislips'and quaffed quaff-ed about i'oz. deliberately, leaving leav-ing about two large doses in the bottles. bot-tles. His wife, appears not to have realur dhis ferrjble intention, nor the potency ot th Drug, a3 she drank the rest of th; contents with the remark that if he was going to try the other world she would ac- company him, little thinking the experiment would prove so terribly fatal, as she afterwards remarked. 1 arrived there about 2 o'clock, P. M. as and the fatal stupor had already seized upon him, the victim Tiad passed beyond the hope of all' word-ly word-ly aid. Mr. Munk found the woman wom-an in the cprral, gradually sinking into a stupor, but he aroused l)cr, and for.unitely for her, vomiting was excited, which soon restored her, but in the other case, nothing we could do for the sufferer appear ed to have any .tffe(,t. Ths was not at all surprizing to me, for ' I found that Mr. toasion had relapsed relaps-ed into a comatose state, and every indication of congestion or the .brain in which condition, medical or mechanical me-chanical aid is of no effect. These are the facts as near as I am able to produce them, and I hereby tender thera, with due re gard. S.ntinel. S. T. Kinnkr. Sterling, June ijfh, 1S91. Editor Serifi'tief: As one of those terrible ftapi-e,nJ.nl?s ' icide, so common ihese 'days, has just transpired near our Quiet little settlement," settle-ment," deem it m tjitf ti nuke a statement of the facts concerning i' "pro bo.no publico." I was called to the residence of Mr. A. C. son, living one mile north of Six-njile Six-njile Creek, by a young son of the said Madson, and as the boy appeared appear-ed to be very urgent and oxcited, 1 repaired immediately to the place, I was met at the door, by Mr. Peter ttunk, of Manti, who had incidentally incidental-ly come to the house on the way f ' |