The Ouachita Telegraph - Painter O'Brian Possible Suicide

Date: Mar. 2004
Submitted by: Lora Peppers <lpeppers@ouachita.lib.la.us>




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The Ouachita Telegraph
May 30, 1867
Page 2, Column 1

  SUICIDE.-- Mr. O'Brian, house and sign painter, was found dead in front of
Endom's stable this morning.  He had swallowed a large quantity of Morphine
in whiskey and also some ether.  Intemperate use of liquor no doubt was the
cause of the deed.
  NOTE: The June 6, 1867 edition of the Ouachita Telegraph, page 2, Column 1,
reports the coroner's verdict in the case is "congestion of the brain."

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