OBIT: Thomas CANOLE, 1896, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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SUICIDE IN ALTOONA.
Thomas Canole Took a Dose of Laudanum and Died.

  For the purpose of ending his life Thomas Canole of Altoona, 
swallowed a dose of laudanum early Thursday morning, from the effects 
of which he died at 12.30 p.m.  Canole was a brass worker and at one 
time had been employed by the railroad company in its brass foundry.  
He contracted a case of brass poisoning, for which he had undergone 
treatment prior to his demise.  He had not worked for about a year.  
Recently he became noticeably moody.  He imagined people talked about 
him.  About 2 o'clock Thursday morning he left his boarding house, but 
returned soon afterwards.  Before daybreak he left again.  At 5 several 
men going out for berries found him lying at Fifteenth avenue and 
Twenty-first street, breathing heavily.  He was identified and carried 
to the home of his nephew, Edward Donnelly, in a comatose state.  An 
empty one ounce laudanum vial, found in his coat pocket, told the sad 
story.  Canole was 48 years of age and a native of Ireland, having been 
born in County Galway.  He had resided in America twenty-six years, and 
in Altoona the greater part of that time.  He leaves two sisters in 
Ireland.

The Tyrone Herald, Thursday, August 20, 1896