Chatham-Fulton County GaArchives Obituaries.....Turner, R.H. January 12 1902
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The Marion County Patriot, January 17, 1902
The Marion County Patriot, No. 3
January 17, 1902
Page One

Ended Life With Opiates

Prominent Cotton Merchant of Savannah Suicides at Hotel Jackson

Atlanta, Jan. 13. – R.H. Turner, a cotton merchant of Savannah and a member of 
one of the most prominent families in south Georgia, was found dead in a room 
at the Jackson hotel yesterday morning.

He had taken morphine and the verdict of the coroner’s jury was that he had 
taken the poison with suicidal intent.

Turner came to Atlanta about a week ago.  He registered at the Jackson hotel on 
Jan. 3 and gave his address as “Georgia.”  He appeared to be drinking, but 
acted in a quiet and unobtrusive manner.

The body was sent to Savannah today in response to telegrams from relatives.

Whether the man while under the influence of drink took morphine to produce 
sleep and took an overdose, or where he deliberately committed suicide will 
never be known, but the coroner’s jury believed from the evidence and the 
surroundings that he had taken his own life in a fit of despondency.



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