Weyberg, Anderson d. 1897

WEYBERG

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Date: 5/15/2005 at 14:58:03

Another Oswalt Sensation

The unpretentious little mining town of Oswalt was again thrown in a fever of excitement on Wednesday evening last by the suicide of a Swede miner by the name of Anderson Weyberg.

It seemed that the man had been drinking in Colfax all day, and returning homeward in the evening had given three other men liquor about a half mile before he reached Oswalt. That was the last seen of him in a conscious condition.

A child of his landlady discovered him about four o’clock lying beside the road only a short distance from the house. He was thought to be in a drunken stupor and was carried into the house.

A passing physician, who stopped to see him, immediately pronounced him dying from morphine poison ­ a bottle of the drug being found in his pocket. Antidotes were administered but to no effect, and he died about six o’clock.

Coroner Hayden Reynolds was called and empanelled a jury, which after due investigation, decided that he came to his death through an overdose of morphine, taken with suicidal intent.

Mr. Weyberg was a native of Bladige, Sweden, a single man, age near thirty-eight years.

Has relatives in Chicago and Minneapolis, and his father lives in Sweden. He was a member of the Odd Fellows, and was given burial by his brethren of that fraternity on Friday, in Poweshiek (McKeever) Cemetery. ~ The Newton Record Friday, December 17, 1897