Cole, Charles 1848 - 1905

COLE

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 5/22/2024 at 16:07:23

Source: Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer Apr. 14, 1905, FP, C6

Charles Cole Commits Suicide by Drinking Carbolic Acid.
Wednesday evening, shortly after six o’clock, a grandson of H. H. Perkins went into a shed for hay at the latter’s home on the South side, the old Alex. Hamilton place, and found Charley Cole lying there dead. The boy called to Ed. Bickford, a neighbor, who investigated and immediately called Sheriff Campbell. A two- ounce bottle nearly empty, with a carbolic acid label told the story. The Coroner was summoned and on arrival decided that no inquest was necessary. The remains were taken to the Fields Undertaking rooms for preparation for burial.
Charley was a well known character about town, one of the poor unfortunates whose curse was liquor, and now that his warped and seamed life is so sadly ended, should be left to the mercy and judgment of his Maker and not to that of men.
For some days he had been sleeping at night in the hay in the shed where he sought death, most of the time, it is thought, without money or food, a condition of affairs, which coupled with several rebuffs on the day of his death, must have given him the determination to end his life, for he purchased the poison himself at at{sic} one of the drug stores in the afternoon and was last seen alive about 5 o’clock when entering the shed in which he was found. His funeral occurred yesterday afternoon with interment in New Oregon cemetery.

Transcriber’s Note: New Oregon Cemetery records indicate he was born in 1848.

Added by Joy Moore April 25, 2019
Source: Decorah Republican Apr. 20, 1905 P4 C5

Charles Cole Commits Suicide.
Cresco P. D.: --Wednesday evening, shortly after six o’clock, a grandson of H. H. Perkins went into a shed for hay at the latter’s home on the south side the old Alex Hamilton place, and found Charley Cole lying there dead. The boy called to Ed. Bickford, a neighbor, who investigated and immediately called Sheriff Campbell. A two-ounce bottle nearly empty, with a carbolic acid label, told the story. The coroner was summoned and on arrival decided that no inquest was necessary. The remains were taken to the Fields Undertaking rooms for preparation for burial.
Charley was a well known character about town, one of the poor unfortunates whose curse was liquor, and now that his warped and seamed life is so sadly ended, should be left to the mercy and judgment of his Maker and not to that of men.
For some days he had been sleeping at night in the hay in the shed where he sought death, most of the time, it, is thought, without money or food.

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