Wiley B.Robinson

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Wiley B. Robinson

Gainesville Daily Register, Friday, February 2, 1940
SUICIDE VERDICT IN THE DEATH OF WILEY B. ROBINSON
Funeral Services Held At Funeral Home with Burial at Leo Friday
   A verdict of suicide by intake of carbolic acid and turpentine was
returned Friday by Justice of Peace H.T. Schafer, Jr. in the death of Wiley b. Robinson, 79, who died in his room at the Plaza Rooms on West Elm street, Thursday about 5:40 p.m.
   Funeral services were held at the J.L. Leazer Funeral Home Friday
afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. Reo Habern, Methodist minister, officiating, with burial in the Lee community.
   Mr. Robinson is survived by a niece, Mrs. Hattie Roark of Oklahoma City, who came here for the funeral, and a nephew, Rev. W.J. Palmer of Clarendon, Texas.
   He was born June 19, 1860, near Honey Grove, Texas.
   Mr. Robinson's groans were heard late Thursday by a woman in an adjoining room on the second-floor rooming house. She ran downstairs and notified Andy Dean, proprietor of the rooming house and a ground floor cafe and he and several men went to Robinson' rooms.
   Believing he had suffered a paralytic stroke, they summoned a physician, who determined the cause of his suffering and attempted to counteract the effects of the poison, but Robinson died soon afterward.

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