WILL RANDELL

OBIT

MAY 8 , 1902

TRANSCRIBED BY : TINA EASLEY

tina@grnco.net

http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ar/county/greene/

 

COMMITTED SUICIDE

A FORMER PARAGOULD CITIZEN TAKES HIS OWN LIFE

ACCORDING TO A PRESS DISPATCH , WILL RANDALL , WHO FORMERLY RESIDED AT THIS PLACE AND AT BERTIG , AND WHO ESTABLISHED THE BOWLING ALLEY HERE , ENDED HIS LIFE IN PADUCAH , KY., YESTERDAY AFTERNOON BY TAKING AN OVER DOSE OF MORPHINE . THE DISPATCH FROM PADUCAH SAYS.

WILL RANDALL , SON OF JUDGE CLINT RANDALL OF HICKMAN , KY ., TOOK FIFTEEN GRAINS OF MORPHINE IN A GLASS OF BEER HERE THIS AFTERNOON AND DID TONIGHT

AT THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE KENTUCKY STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION , IN SESSION AT PADUCAH .

HE WAS FOUND DYING ON A PUBLIC THOROUGHFARE . YOUNG RANDALL HAD JUST RETURNED FROM THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS , WHERE HE SERVED AS SERGEANT OF COMPANY I OF THE FORTY-SIXTH

REGIMENT OF INFANTRY VOLUNTEERS.