SUICIDE BY LAUDANUM (WILLIAM H. BEAR)
Judge Bear of Burlington, Kan., Takes His Own Life
Burlington, Kan., Sept. 2; William H. Bear of this city committed suicide yesterday by taking a large dose of laudanum. He had carefully written instructions and statements and letters to friends and relatives. Continued ill health and financial troubles were the causes. During the past twenty years Mr. Bear had been six times elected and once appointed register of deeds and three times elected probate judge of this, Coffey, county. He leaves a wife and one child. (The Guthrie Daily Leader; Guthrie, Oklahoma; September 3, 1893 - Transcribed as written by D. Donlon)
Judge Bear of Burlington, Kan., Takes His Own Life
Burlington, Kan., Sept. 2; William H. Bear of this city committed suicide yesterday by taking a large dose of laudanum. He had carefully written instructions and statements and letters to friends and relatives. Continued ill health and financial troubles were the causes. During the past twenty years Mr. Bear had been six times elected and once appointed register of deeds and three times elected probate judge of this, Coffey, county. He leaves a wife and one child. (The Guthrie Daily Leader; Guthrie, Oklahoma; September 3, 1893 - Transcribed as written by D. Donlon)
SUICIDE BY LAUDANUM (WILLIAM H. BEAR)
Judge Bear of Burlington, Kan., Takes His Own Life
Burlington, Kan., Sept. 2; William H. Bear of this city committed suicide yesterday by taking a large dose of laudanum. He had carefully written instructions and statements and letters to friends and relatives. Continued ill health and financial troubles were the causes. During the past twenty years Mr. Bear had been six times elected and once appointed register of deeds and three times elected probate judge of this, Coffey, county. He leaves a wife and one child. (The Guthrie Daily Leader; Guthrie, Oklahoma; September 3, 1893 - Transcribed as written by D. Donlon)
Judge Bear of Burlington, Kan., Takes His Own Life
Burlington, Kan., Sept. 2; William H. Bear of this city committed suicide yesterday by taking a large dose of laudanum. He had carefully written instructions and statements and letters to friends and relatives. Continued ill health and financial troubles were the causes. During the past twenty years Mr. Bear had been six times elected and once appointed register of deeds and three times elected probate judge of this, Coffey, county. He leaves a wife and one child. (The Guthrie Daily Leader; Guthrie, Oklahoma; September 3, 1893 - Transcribed as written by D. Donlon)
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