Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....White, William 1934
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The Portland Observer, Thursday, August 23, 1934

Bearing evidence of self-inflicted death, the badly decomposed body of William 
White, 62-year-old farmer, was found shortly before noon Tuesday in some 
underbrush in Kauffman swamp, southeast of the village of Clarksville.

The discovery was made by Charles Oberson and Amos Bedell, members of a 
searching party of two score men hastily organized when it was reported that 
White had been missing from the home of Roy Robbins, where he had lived for 
some time, since last Thursday afternoon.

Coroner John J. McCann declared the body bore evidence that White undoubtedly 
had swallowed carbolic acid or a similar potent poison to end his life.  He 
had, it was stated, attempted to end his life last June by half-burying 
himself in the sludge of a nearby drainage canal and taking chloroform.


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