Butler County KS Archives Obituaries.....Turner, John January 7, 1904
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The Walnut Valley Times, January 8, 1904
The Walnut Valley Times
January 8, 1904
Volume XXXIV, Number 51

FORMER EL DORADO MAN TAKES CARBOLIC ACID AND DIES IN WICHITA

John Turner, a teamster, who moved to Wichita from El Dorado two years ago, 
committed suicide at his home, 731 Roberts avenue, West Side, yesterday morning 
at 8:30, by drinking an ounce of carbolic acid. Despondency over financial 
troubles caused him to take his own life. He had been out of work for over two 
weeks, and had been compelled to sell his team to pay debts.

He went to town about 8:00 o’clock in the morning, returned immediately and 
saying that he did not feel well retired into a bedroom, telling his wife he 
was going to bed. His wife entered the room a few minutes afterwards and found 
he had taken the poison. A doctor was summoned immediately but as he was not 
informed of the nature of the case did not take a stomach pump with him and 
when one was procured it was too late. 

Turner left notes to his wife and children, the latter one reading:

“Dear children: I must bid you goodbye. I have made some bad mistakes in my 
life but at last I have made one that I cannot repair. Always remember that I 
love you. Not only love you, but worship you. Be good children and think of me 
sometimes.   Father.”

About a year ago Turner’s first wife secured a divorce and a few months later 
he married Mrs. Myrtle Halsey, a widow with three children. By his first wife 
there were five children and all of them live in Wichita, with the exception of 
Mrs. Tom Marcum who resides at Yelton, Oklahoma.


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