Obituary - Joseph Cox
East Liverpool Tribune
JOSEPH COX, DRINKS ACID IN POOL ROOM
Local Barber, Despondent, Suicides Before Friends
Gave No Reason for Rash Act and Died Almost instantly
Shortly after the noon hour Saturday, Joseph Cox, aged 30, a barber, married, committed suicide by drinking a half ounce of carbolic acid from a tin cup in the toilet room of the Walsh pool and billiard rooms, East Sixth street. The cause is unknown.
Cox, who is married but does not reside with his wife and little daughter of seven months, has been boarding for a short time past at the home of John Lewis on Jefferson street. On Saturday, he secured employment as an extra man at the K. L. Lewis Barber shop, which adjoins the Walsh pool room. At about 10 o'clock that morning he is said to have left the shop and gone out, securing whiskey at a Sixth street saloon. He is thought to have purchased the carbolic acid while out of the shop at this time. Upon his return, he seemed to be in an intoxicated condition. AT just a few minutes past 12 o'clock he put on his hat and coat and walked out of the shop into the toilet room of the Walsh pool and billiard parlors, where he emptied the contents of a half ounce bottle of carbolic acid into a tin drinking cup, and drained it.
He staggered back into the Lewis barber ship. Where seating himself in one of the barber chairs, he extended his hand to a fellow barber, Gilbert Foreman, saying; "Goodbye, I have taken carbolic acid." The marks of the acid were then noticed on his mouth and he was removed form the barber chair tone of the pool tables in Walsh pool room. Dr. W. N. Bailey, who was summoned immediately when the discovery was made that Cox had drank the poison, arrived but was beyond the need of medical attention when the physician arrived. He was removed to the Sturgis morgue on Dresden Avenue where the body was prepared for burial.
Mr. Cox was well known about the city. Besides his wife and child, he is survived by his parents, who reside at Lisbon.
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