St. Clair County IL Archives News.....Two Kinds of Poison [WF Feagle] 1900
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The Waterloo [IA] Daily Courier, Nov 24, 1900 1900
Used by an Arkansas Man to Get Himself off the Earth

East St. Louis, Ills., Nov. 24.-Kneeling at the side of his bed, with hands 
clasped in front of his face, in an attitude of prayer, the body of W. F. 
Feagle was found in a room at the South End hotel. A box of morphine pills and 
an empty laudanum bottle told the story. Feagle had bathed and robed himself 
in silk underwear, evidently in preparation for his burial. His home was in 
Fort Smith, Ark., where, it is supposed from letters found in his room that 
his family resides.

Feagle was an expert in cotton, and accepted a position with the Cotton 
Compress company as a "classer" on Oct. 29, going to work at once at a salary 
of $200 a month. He was for three terms a member of the Arkansas legislature, 
and had held other positions of political prominence in that state. He was 
about 52 years old. Since his arrival here Feagle has seemed despondent and 
drank heavily, to which fact his suicide is attributed.

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