The Talbotton New Era
Thursday, July 23, 1908
Page Two
Fires Pistol Ball Through His Heart
Aged Man, Ill, Ends His Own Life At LaGrange
LaGrange, Ga., July 21 - Oliver Currier fired a pistol ball through his heart
while in his room here at 6 o'clock this morning.
Mr. Currier, who was 64 years of age, had been in bad health for some time. He
had no relatives here, but said he had a niece in Boston, Mass. His home was
said to have been in Portland, Me. He came to LaGrange about two years ago and
for one year was a night watchman at Unity Mills. Later he engaged as a cook
at a restaurant.
Not long ago he is quoted as saying that he had about nine hundred dollars in a
bank in Atlanta and yestserday said he was going up to Atlanta early this
morning. Another witness at the coroner's inquest said that the nine hundred
dollars was in a bank in Boston.