I came across this while researching- I am not related but thought it would be
of interest to a CARROLL researcher.
Arizona Weekly Star (Tucson), 4 July 1878, 2:2
SUICIDE- A man named James Carroll, aged about thirty-five years, committed
suicide by taking poison on Tuesday night last. He went to the drug store and
purchased strychnine the same evening, telling Dr. Meyers that his room was
overrun with rats and he desired to get rid of them. He proceeded immediately to
Holt s saloon and called for a glass of mescal; taking the glass in his hand,
and tearing off the end of the paper containing the poison, poured the mescal
upon it. Lifting the glass he turned to Shorty, who was behind the bar, and
said: My name is James Carroll, and I was born in Lawrence, Mass.; have a
brother in - (Shorty don t remember what place,) and I am drinking deadly
poison. He emptied the glass, proceeded to an adjoining room and sat down in a
chair. Shorty told Marsh, who was in the saloon, what had happened, and the
latter went to Dr. Meyers with the paper that had contained the poison, and was
told that there was enough in the package to kill ten men. Dr. Handy was called
in and applied a stomach pump, drawing quantities of the poison, but it had been
in the system too long to perfect restoration. He took the poison at eight in
the evening and died the following morning at two o clock. He was stone mason,
and had been employed at Lee s mill for a few weeks past. He said to parties he
had nothing to live for; during the war he was a captain in the 25th regiment,
Massachusetts Volunteers. A Coroner s inquestwas held yesterday, which rendered
a verdict according to the facts above stated, and the body was buried by the
Sheriff yesterday.