The Kansas Daily Tribune
Lawrence, Kansas
June 26, 1882
pg. 2

Denison, Texas, June 24, - W.F. Hasters, one of the first settlers of this city, suicided yesterday by taking morphine.  He was living on a farm, 5 miles in country.  Early yesterday he walked into town, bought 12 grains of morphine, walked home, poured the drug into a cup of water and holding it up before his family said:
"Here is a good-bye to all my friends," and he drank it down.  It was several hours before a physician arrived, when it was too late to save him.

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