OBIT: Charles A. SNEATH, 1899, Mount Union, Huntingdon County, PA

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TOOK CARBOLICACID.

CHAS. A. SNEATH COMMITTED SUICIDE.

Was in Poor Health and to This is Ascribed the Cause of the Rash Act.
Well Known Here.

  Charles A. Sneath, son of Mrs. Mary E. Sneath, of 1217 1/2 Seventh 
avenue, and well known here, committed suicide at the home of his 
uncle, W. S. Sneath, at Mount Union, Huntingdon county, Friday night or 
early Saturday morning by drinking carbolic acid.  Ill health is said 
to be the cause of his rash act.  He retired about 7 o'clock and was 
apparently in his usual health.  Saturday morning when called for 
breakfast no answer was received.  Fearing something had happened the 
door was broken open and Sneath was found lying on the bed.  He was 
dead and lying near him was found an empty and a full bottle of 
carbolic acid.  Sneath had not been in good health for some time and 
was stopping with his uncle in the hope that his health might be 
benefited.  Becoming discouraged at the slow progress he was making is 
thought to have caused him to drink the deadly poison.  
  The unfortunate man had clerked at the Lochiel hotel, in Harrisburg 
for a period of our years.  During the latter part of July he paid this 
city a visit and remained a week with his mother.  He complained of not 
being well, and thought it was from being overworked and from loss of 
sleep.  He returned to Harrisburg on August 1st and on the 3d resigned 
his position and went to Mt. Union to stop with his uncle.  His death 
was a shock to his family.
  Charles A. Sneath was born at Alexandria, Huntingdon county, November 
15, 1866.  He was educated at the Mt. Joy Soldiers' Orphans' school and 
on leaving that institution located at Danville.  He was a lover of 
base ball and first came to Altoona with the Danville base ball club.  
The summer of 1895 he spent in this city and took tickets at the ball 
ground at Juniata, and later worked for the Edison Illuminating 
company.  In the fall he accepted the position as clerk at the Lochiel, 
which he held until he resigned on account of ill health.  Besides his 
mother he is survived by two brothers, Harry, of Pittsburg, and Edward, 
of Altoona, and one sister, Mrs. E. O. Hipsley.  The funeral will take 
place this morning at 10 o'clock; interment to be made at Mt. Union.

Morning Tribune (Altoona), Monday, December 11, 1899