Las Vegas Age, February 6, 2004, Clark County, Nevada  
Copyright © 2004 Gerry Perry <MissGerry@cox.net>

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LAS VEGAS AGE
7/21/1917

ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE FINALLY SUCCESSFUL

    M. J. COLEMAN, in a fit of despondency following a debauch, Sunday 
morning, took a bottle of bichloride of mercury tablets (corrosive 
su??limate) about one hundred in number. His stomach refused to retain 
this great quantity of deadly poison and quickly relieved itself, but 
not before the system had absorbed enough of the awful stuff to cause 
death.  But COLEMAN lingered several days. Friday morning early he 
escaped from the Las Vegas Hospital where he was being treated and went 
to the street. Here he soon fell in a convulsion. Bystanders carried 
the man upstairs to the hospital, but he soon died, in spite of all 
medical aid.
    COLEMAN came from Los Angeles. In the room he occupied at the 
Overland Hotel when he took the poison, he left a note asking that Kate 
BEESNAHAN, 1605 S. Figueroa St., Los Angeles, be notified. He is said 
to have relatives in Pennsylvania.