The Sunday Gazetteer
Sunday, June 8, 1890

A man named Wm. Holloman, working at the Perry brick yard, was found Monday near the yard in a dying condition from the effects of a large quantity of arsenic which he had purchased and taken with suicidal intent.  He was brought to the city and placed upon a cot in the jail corridor where Dr. Booth, the city physician, attended him.  By the use of emetics and the proper antidotes his life was saved, and he was send Wednesday to Savoy where he has a wife living.  When brought to consciousness first he stated that the reason he took the poison was because he had killed a man in Tennessee 2 years ago and fear of arrest, together with general misfortune. had made him so that he didn't want to live.  He stated before he left that he would try the experiment again shortly with better success.

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