Randolph County AlArchives News.....Suicide at the Owen's Hotel in Wedowee December 28, 1878
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The Weekly Advertiser December 28, 1878
From the Oxford Tribune 
Through Mr. John Adams the mail rider from Oxford to Wedowee, we learn that a 
citizen of Roanoke, committed suicide in Wedowee last Friday night. As Mr. Adams 
is informed, the man borrowed fifty dollars from his father-in-law on Friday 
morning and left home. He told his wife that he was going off to hunt work, and 
that he would return he didn't know when perhaps in a day or two, or perhaps 
never. Meeting a creditor, he paid him twenty dollars of the money borrowed from 
his father-in-law. He then proceeded to Wedowee, fourteen or fifteen miles. 
Arriving there he took lodging at the boarding house of Mrs. Owens. He told Mrs. 
Owens that he didn't want any supper and that as he would not be there for 
breakfast he had better settle for his night's lodging before he retired. This 
he did. He then went out in town and bought a vial of laudanum, probably from 
Mr. Gibbs. When he returned to the boarding house, and Mrs. Owen's little son 
conducted him to his room. While the boy was in the room, the (stranger to him) 
took the vial from his pocket, drank the contents, poured water into the vial, 
shook up the sediment, and drank the water. Young Owens saw him drink the 
contents of the bottle, but he supposed that the man was only drinking a dose of 
medicine. Consequently, he thought no more of it, till the next morning, when 
the man's body was found lying across the bed, his spirit flown to another world 
later. 
Since the above was written we have earned that the suicider's name was W.F. 
Stubbs.

Additional Comments:
Possibly Wm Franklin Stubbs of Harris County GA. 

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