Charlotte, April 1—Thomas R. Coleman, 35, well known Charlotte business man, committed suicide early this morning by stabbing himself through the heart with a knife. “I did it because I didn’t want to live any longer. The knife is there under the bath tub,” he told those who reached him shortly after he had plunged the big blade through his heart.
Coleman, for several years steward and manager of Brown’s café, Tryon street eating house, was well known and highly respected here. Roomers in Brown’s rooming house over the café heard groans coming from the bath room about 4 o’clock this morning. Upon investigating they found Coleman standing in the room holding his hand over his heart. He died within a few minutes.
His friends are at a loss to understand his motive for the deed.
Surviving are his mother, Mrs. Mary E. Coleman of Fayetteville; three sisters, Mrs. T.H. Pegram of Fayetteville, Mrs. Charles Harper of Wahitchka, Fla., and Mrs. M.D. Elvington of Fair Bluff.
Coroner Frank Hovis has called an inquest for 3 o’clock Wednesday afternoon. Coroner Hovis says there is nothing in connection with he case to indicate foul play, the inquest being called a formality.
Mrs. W.J. Benton of Whiteville is another sister, not mentioned in the above dispatch. Mr. Coleman was born and reared between Fair Bluff and Cerro Gordo. the body was brought home this morning and is being interred in the Porter Swamp cemetery today.—Editor.
From the front page of the News Reporter, Whiteville, N.C., Thursday, April 3, 1924
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