 Denison  The Sunday Gazetteer Sunday, July 20, 1890 pg. 4 WEARY OF BREATH William Daugherty Takes His Life With a Dose of Arsenic Wm. Daugherty, a young man formerly in the employe of Girard, the auction man, at No. 113 Main street, died at his room over the Buckhorn Saloon Sunday morning at 1:30 o'clock from the effects of arsenic, taken with suicidal intent. Daugherty had been on a jamboree for several weeks and for a number of days had been on the verge delerium tremens. Friday night he procured his death dose, and going to his room took it and went to bed. The effect of the poison was slow and the victim died hard, but Sunday morning, after lingering in fearful pain for 30 hours, he yielded to the effects of the drug. Parties who roomed in the building, and others who were acquainted with him, thinking that he was merely very sick from the effects of his long spree, waited on him attentively, but when he told that he had poisoned himself, which he failed to do until late Saturday night, it was already too late to do anything for him with medicine. His wife, at Clinton, Mo., was telegraphed the intelligence of his death and a reply was received instructing that his remains be buried here. In accordance with these instructions, Daugherty was interred in Oakwood Cemetery Monday afternoon, three young men of this city paying the funeral expenses.  OAKWOOD CEMETERY
Susan Hawkins
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