From the August 15, 1906 issue of the Illinoian-Star newspaper, Beardstown, Illinois: Wednesday morning a few minutes before eleven o'clock John Uriah Bean committed suicide at his house on west Main street by drinking carbolic acid. The act followed close by the death of his little boy, twenty one months of age. The little one had been ill for about a week and it was known Tuesday that he could not recover. Mr. Bean made the threat that if the child died he would go with him. At...expired. The father walked into an adjoining room where he had a bottle of carbolic acid and drank the contents of it, then walked out to the well and took a drink of water and started down to the river bank. His brother, George Bean, started out after him, fearing that the man might do himself injury. When the brother came close to him, Bean turned around and said, "I've done it. Goodby." The brother took hold of him and sought to hurry him to the home. By this time the man was becoming quite ill and the brother succeeded in getting him into the house and to the bed where he breathed his last. Dr. T.J. Schweer was hurriedly called but found that life had been gone some minutes when he arrived. The coroner was immediately notified and the following jury was impaneled for the inquest: I. G. Schaeffer, Charles Kricke, James Reynolds, George Saunders, J. Kirby and John Eads. After viewing the body and interviewing the witnesses the coroner requests the jury and witnesses to meet at the city hall at 3 o'clock for the inquest. ....The age of the deceased was 32 years, 11 months and 29 days. He was a fisherman and common laborer and is survived by a wife and four children, the youngest a babe but six weeks old. The sympathy of the entire community goes out to the mother and widow who is suffering from this double blow of losing both husband and child. The funeral services of the father and child will bed held Friday morning probably at 9:30 o'clock from the home. Rev. J. C. Nate will conduct the services. The interment will take place in Oak Grove cemetery. The coroner's jury met at the office of George T. Saunders in the city hall Wednesday afternoon at three o'clock and rendered the following verdict in regard to the death of J. U. Bean. "We, the undersigned, jurors sworn to inquire into the death of John Uriah Bean, deceased, ...do find that he came to his death from the effects of a dose of carbolic acid poison administered by his own hand about 11 o'clock Wednesday morning, August 15, A. D., 1906 at his residence on West Main street in Beardstown, Ill. L. G. Schaeffer, Foreman; Chas. Kricke; James Reynolds; George Saunders; J. Kirby; John Eads.