A PERSISTENT SUICIDE.
Aaron Ellis, sixty-five years old, of San Francisco, made a clean job of it at last, and died rejoicing. He had attempted to poison himself three times and failed. After the third failure he began to despair of death, and believed himself poison proof. The prospect of living on for ever, like the Wandering Jew, vas agony. Just to “make assurance doubly sure ” and thoroughly satisfy himself of an eternity in his earthly prison house, he tried it again, and when the drug began to work he said to a friend who was near, “ I almost thought I was poison proof, but I guess I have made a good job of it this time.” And he had. He just had time to write a little explanatory note, and his enfranchised soul left it on the window sill and mounted aloft. He was a native of Tennessee, and has two sisters living in that State now to read about him.
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Globe, Volume IV, Issue 415, 11 October 1875, Page 4
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162A PERSISTENT SUICIDE. Globe, Volume IV, Issue 415, 11 October 1875, Page 4
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