F.C. Norfleet, resident manager and one of the leasees of the Otis Phosphate Mines in the southern end of Taylor County and who was quite well known and had a number of friends in Perry, committed suicide Monday afternoon at his home near the company's works at Benotis, bu taking a dose of Strychnine. That the rash deed had been premeditated for several days is not doubted by his friends for on the seventeenth of last month he wrote the undertaking company at Perry, ordering a metallic casket, giving full instructions and dimensions, stating that a friend was ill and not expected to live, and other reasons which point to deliberate planning for death, among which were the fact that he wrote his brother to come to Benotis, and it was when the train bearing his brother was approaching that he took the poison which ended his life almost instantly
The Bradford County Telegraph
Starke, Florida
Friday February 11, 1921 Page 8
Note: Benotis was a train station of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad located between the towns of Salem and Clara in Taylor County Florida.
The Bradford County Telegraph
Starke, Florida
Friday February 11, 1921 Page 8
Note: Benotis was a train station of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad located between the towns of Salem and Clara in Taylor County Florida.
F.C. Norfleet, resident manager and one of the leasees of the Otis Phosphate Mines in the southern end of Taylor County and who was quite well known and had a number of friends in Perry, committed suicide Monday afternoon at his home near the company's works at Benotis, bu taking a dose of Strychnine. That the rash deed had been premeditated for several days is not doubted by his friends for on the seventeenth of last month he wrote the undertaking company at Perry, ordering a metallic casket, giving full instructions and dimensions, stating that a friend was ill and not expected to live, and other reasons which point to deliberate planning for death, among which were the fact that he wrote his brother to come to Benotis, and it was when the train bearing his brother was approaching that he took the poison which ended his life almost instantly
The Bradford County Telegraph
Starke, Florida
Friday February 11, 1921 Page 8
Note: Benotis was a train station of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad located between the towns of Salem and Clara in Taylor County Florida.
The Bradford County Telegraph
Starke, Florida
Friday February 11, 1921 Page 8
Note: Benotis was a train station of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad located between the towns of Salem and Clara in Taylor County Florida.
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