Son of Albert and Emma (Perkins) Allen
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Believing that he had but a short time to live and thinking his helpless physical condition as burdensome to relatives, G. E. Allen, a young man of but twenty-five years of age, suicided yesterday forenoon at Kirkland valley, through taking strychnine.
His illness and rash act was due to tuberculosis, an affliction that seized him a few years ago. He developed this disease through exposure in years gone, being a stage driver out of Prescott, his last work being that of carrying the mail and freight to the old Catoctin mine.
He claimed that the last winter he drove the stage on this route he exposed himself in several snowstorms, and traces his illness to that time. He left this city about a year ago, going to lower elevations after the disease had made itself plainly evident. For several months he had resided in Kirkland, where his sister, Mrs. O. D. May (sic: Mrs. Otis D. Knee), the wife of the agent of the S.F.P. & P., resides.
He gave no intimation whatever that he contemplated self destruction, although among his more intimate acquaintances, it was believed that he was contemplating something unusual. He stated several times that he clearly realized the hopelessness of ever recovering, and recalled his previous vocation as an avenue through which he contracted trouble. He was a young man well known in this section and in addition to his obliging disposition, was careful in all his work as an employe. It was not learned whether any relatives, other than his sister, survive him.
Upon receipt of the news of his death, Judge McLane, the coroner, left last night for Kirkland to hold the inquest. The latter official was accompanied by Undertaker Ruffner.
~ Weekly Journal-Miner (Prescott, Arizona), Wednesday, November 10, 1909, p. 3
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Believing that he had but a short time to live and thinking his helpless physical condition as burdensome to relatives, G. E. Allen, a young man of but twenty-five years of age, suicided yesterday forenoon at Kirkland valley, through taking strychnine.
His illness and rash act was due to tuberculosis, an affliction that seized him a few years ago. He developed this disease through exposure in years gone, being a stage driver out of Prescott, his last work being that of carrying the mail and freight to the old Catoctin mine.
He claimed that the last winter he drove the stage on this route he exposed himself in several snowstorms, and traces his illness to that time. He left this city about a year ago, going to lower elevations after the disease had made itself plainly evident. For several months he had resided in Kirkland, where his sister, Mrs. O. D. May (sic: Mrs. Otis D. Knee), the wife of the agent of the S.F.P. & P., resides.
He gave no intimation whatever that he contemplated self destruction, although among his more intimate acquaintances, it was believed that he was contemplating something unusual. He stated several times that he clearly realized the hopelessness of ever recovering, and recalled his previous vocation as an avenue through which he contracted trouble. He was a young man well known in this section and in addition to his obliging disposition, was careful in all his work as an employe. It was not learned whether any relatives, other than his sister, survive him.
Upon receipt of the news of his death, Judge McLane, the coroner, left last night for Kirkland to hold the inquest. The latter official was accompanied by Undertaker Ruffner.
~ Weekly Journal-Miner (Prescott, Arizona), Wednesday, November 10, 1909, p. 3
Son of Albert and Emma (Perkins) Allen
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Believing that he had but a short time to live and thinking his helpless physical condition as burdensome to relatives, G. E. Allen, a young man of but twenty-five years of age, suicided yesterday forenoon at Kirkland valley, through taking strychnine.
His illness and rash act was due to tuberculosis, an affliction that seized him a few years ago. He developed this disease through exposure in years gone, being a stage driver out of Prescott, his last work being that of carrying the mail and freight to the old Catoctin mine.
He claimed that the last winter he drove the stage on this route he exposed himself in several snowstorms, and traces his illness to that time. He left this city about a year ago, going to lower elevations after the disease had made itself plainly evident. For several months he had resided in Kirkland, where his sister, Mrs. O. D. May (sic: Mrs. Otis D. Knee), the wife of the agent of the S.F.P. & P., resides.
He gave no intimation whatever that he contemplated self destruction, although among his more intimate acquaintances, it was believed that he was contemplating something unusual. He stated several times that he clearly realized the hopelessness of ever recovering, and recalled his previous vocation as an avenue through which he contracted trouble. He was a young man well known in this section and in addition to his obliging disposition, was careful in all his work as an employe. It was not learned whether any relatives, other than his sister, survive him.
Upon receipt of the news of his death, Judge McLane, the coroner, left last night for Kirkland to hold the inquest. The latter official was accompanied by Undertaker Ruffner.
~ Weekly Journal-Miner (Prescott, Arizona), Wednesday, November 10, 1909, p. 3
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Believing that he had but a short time to live and thinking his helpless physical condition as burdensome to relatives, G. E. Allen, a young man of but twenty-five years of age, suicided yesterday forenoon at Kirkland valley, through taking strychnine.
His illness and rash act was due to tuberculosis, an affliction that seized him a few years ago. He developed this disease through exposure in years gone, being a stage driver out of Prescott, his last work being that of carrying the mail and freight to the old Catoctin mine.
He claimed that the last winter he drove the stage on this route he exposed himself in several snowstorms, and traces his illness to that time. He left this city about a year ago, going to lower elevations after the disease had made itself plainly evident. For several months he had resided in Kirkland, where his sister, Mrs. O. D. May (sic: Mrs. Otis D. Knee), the wife of the agent of the S.F.P. & P., resides.
He gave no intimation whatever that he contemplated self destruction, although among his more intimate acquaintances, it was believed that he was contemplating something unusual. He stated several times that he clearly realized the hopelessness of ever recovering, and recalled his previous vocation as an avenue through which he contracted trouble. He was a young man well known in this section and in addition to his obliging disposition, was careful in all his work as an employe. It was not learned whether any relatives, other than his sister, survive him.
Upon receipt of the news of his death, Judge McLane, the coroner, left last night for Kirkland to hold the inquest. The latter official was accompanied by Undertaker Ruffner.
~ Weekly Journal-Miner (Prescott, Arizona), Wednesday, November 10, 1909, p. 3
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