Show YOUTH SNAPS THE THREAD OF LIFE James McCullam Electrician Swallows Carbolic Acid and Dies in Mothers Mother's Arms SUICIDE AT FAMILY HOME Had Two Bottles of Acid and When Mother Sei Seized ed One He Drank Contents of Other 4 I t 4 t f 4 2 JAMES US MCL GED with life IlCe as the r re result re- re D DISCOURAGED suit slut of oC Inability to secure work Jam James s McCullam an electrical en engineer en- en ginee- ginee twenty one years eurs old committed commit commit- ted tell suicide on a lawn In the tho rear of or his home Fifth Firth avenue shortly before C G o'clock last night b by drinking carbolic acid The young o man drank the poison while his mother Mrs Margaret aret H. H 1 Mc Me- Me Cullam widow of Daniel McCullam l and Mrs Mar lar Mary Crawford a friend of or the fatally family who vito rc resides ldes at ul 73 3 N street treet fought for fOl possession of the tile bottle that tha held the tho dead deadly liquid The They wrenched one ono bottle from him but he lie produced another and struggling JIl like c a a. wild man finally raised the second bottle to his mouth and swallowed Its contents In a single gulp A messa message c was sent to the Sixth Avenue A drug store a block awa away for antidotes which were administered by F F. J. J Folland one of ot the time proprietors o of the pharmacy while a call wa was sent to Dr II H. B. B Spra Sprague ue When hen the time physician phy phy- arrived McCullam was still alive but shortly afterward Several So months ago o McCullam and Woodruff Beebe of G street son o oO or of I 0 O C C. Boebe Beebe of oC the tho Eton's Zions Savings Sa bank entered lino Uno partnership as electricians Thc They purchased apparatus for tor th time the man man- of or electrical goods and Me Me- Cullam nursed hopes that the time little organization or or- would some day grow Into a firm that would rival al hi big electrical corpora cor cor- pora 0 ra t I o ia Failure the lie Call Canne Three weeks weeks' ago financial reverses reverse were encountered n and d the partnership to to which McCullam had hati given ull his W I QI C J. J H It leftt Mc- Mc p lI lie tt to get et work bur but tailed failed The hod body was as tak taken n to the tho mortuary of or Undertaker Joseph William Taylor Talor Th The attention o of Coroner Barr Harry SHarper S S. Harper was called to the case caso Prior to signing tile the death certificate toda today h h. will vIlt make an arm Investigation In James fcC McCullam was born Jorn In Gla GIns GIns- gow ow Scotland twenty one years e a ago o. o the time son of Daniel laniel and Margaret II McCullam hen When h he was two years ears old 1 he was blou brought ht by br hi lila his p parents to Salt Take Lake Ills his father died d five fhe years yea en s ago Besides hl his widowed mother ho he is survived sur stir ved U by a brother and a n sister William Wil IVil- 1 ham liam McCullam and Miss lIsI Marguerite McCullam Mc Mc- Ic- Ic Cullam ullam Ho lie completed his studies at atthe atthe the tho Lowell school rO 1 Y vc years 1 rs rl ago aJo He lie Hev v 0 2 as Oj as an electrical engin engi engi- l- l n neer e er |