Clover, S.C., Aug. 12—Dressed in his best clothes, James Tartel, 25, textile worker, killed himself here late last night by climbing a steel electric tower and touching a live wire.
Tarlton’s act, authorities were told, was admitted after he quarreled with his wife, from whom he had been estranged. When she refused to be reconciled, he told her he was going to “dress up and kill himself by jumping from the power tower.”
The short circuit which resulted when the man touched the wire threw Clover in darkness and stopped all cotton mill machinery.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, Aug. 14, 1926
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