Chris Bartlessen Ends Life by Morphine Route---Took Seven Grains

              Christ  Bartlessen   Ends   Life   by:
Morphine Route—-Took
•    Seven Grains
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Chris Bartlessen committed sui¬
cide Thursday night at the resi¬
dence of his wife's mother. Mrs.
Rogers, in Lindsey.
'Mr. and Mrs. Bartlessen has
just removed from Fremont to
Lindsey a short time ago and
though Mr. Bartlessen was a sta¬
tionery engineer lie contemplated
starting out with a wagon and
selling fruits and vegetables.
Thursday afternoon fie procured
a pint of" whiskey at L.K.Porter's
drug store on a prescription giv¬
en him by Dr. Higbee and at the
same time he purchased 50 one-i
eighth grain morphine powders.
This amount of morphine was no
unusual quantity as he was
known to Mr. Porter as an hab¬
itual user of the drug.
Going home about 4 o'clock he
went to an upstairs room. His
wife followed him up stairs and
he told her he was tired and
wanted to rest. She went down
stairs again and resumed her
work pitting cherries. She did
not pay any mo're attention to him j
until she called him to supper i
about 6:30 and getting no re-;
sponse she went to the room andi
found him lying on the floor.
Mrs. Bartlessen tried to arouse!
her Imsband but not being able to \
do so called her mother and also;
sent for a physician t>ut Bartles-j
sen w'as too far gone and he died j
about an hour later without re¬
gaining consciousness as all
efforts of the physician proved
futile.
Bartlessen had taken all of the
! SO powders which would have been
an overdose if   he   had   not   been
| accustomed to the use of the drug.'
1     He was about 49   years old and
has no family except a wife.
For some time he has been act-
I ing strangely but his actions were
attributed to his worry over his
inability   to  overcome   his   habit
, of taking morphine.