Lee County IA Archives Obituaries.....Brown, David April 1884
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"The Anniston Hot Blast"
Anniston, Calhoun Co., Alabama

NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, APRIL 26, 1884

ALABAMA State News

JEFFERSON County News

Birmingham, April 25th

David Brown, a young man about twenty-seven years of age, bookkeeper for D. 
Moar and Co., lumber dealers of this city, took an overdose of morphine last 
night and died at 9:40 this morning. A note was found in the handwriting of 
the deceased stating that the books of D. Moar and Co. would show the cash 
accounts short and that he was the defaulter to the amount of the shortage. 
Brown's note also stated he had executed paper at the bank signing the 
firm's name and using the proceeds without the firms's knowledge; that he 
owed several accounts about town which he hoped D. Moar and Co. would pay as 
he was confident his people would repay the money. Brown, who had been known 
here about one year, was from Keokuk, Iowa and was companionable and 
generally well thought of. The father of Brown, who was dispatched at his 
son's death, arrived here by chance this afternoon.

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