Monroe, Dec. 4—Jodie L. Williams, a prosperous farmer of New Salem township, Union County, ended his life today by drinking a quantity of carbolic acid. Mr. Williams emptied the bottle, walked into the room where his family was, told them what he had done and added that it would all be over presently. He then drank a glass of water, laid down on the porch, and was dead in five minutes.
For some time, Williams had been depressed and apparently in bad health. His acquaintances believe that he was a sufferer from incipient insanity. He was 58 years of age and leaves a wife and eight children, most of whom are small.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, Dec. 5, 1925. Carbolic acid was used as an antiseptic in 1925.
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