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DAVID STOUT A SUICIDE.
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     Took Carbolic Acid Tuesday Night 
  While Alone at His Home.
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       David Stout, wellknown citizen of Clyde,
       committed suicide some time Tuesday night by
       taking a quantity of carbolic acid at his home on
       Maple street.  The acid was bought on that day at
       a Fremont drug store. Stout disappeared from
       Clyde unexpectedly last week, and much concern
       was felt by his relatives and friends regarding
       him.  After several days word was received from
       Toledo that he was there with relatives.  Monday
       he returned to Clyde but was evidently laboring
       under great mental disturbance.  He had been in
       poor health and in a crippled condition for
       years, and it is thought became despondent. 
       Tuesday he made a trip to Fremont, returning that
       afternoon.
      Nothing was seen of him alive after Tuesday, and
      yesterday afternoon his sister, Mrs. Early Franks,
      went to his home and found him dead in bed, and by
      his side a bottle half full of carbolic acid.  The
      cause of his death was only to apparent.
       The body removed to the Beard undertaking parlors
       and prepared for burial.  Funeral services will
       be held at his home on Maple street Friday
       afternoon at 2 o'clock and burial will be made in
       McPherson cemetery.



Transcribed by: Marianne Hitchcock Smith
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