Lee County IA Archives Obituaries.....Brown, David April 1884
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"The Anniston Hot Blast"
Anniston, Calhoun Co., Alabama
NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, APRIL 26, 1884
ALABAMA State News
JEFFERSON County News
Birmingham, April 25th
David Brown, a young man about twenty-seven years of age, bookkeeper for D.
Moar and Co., lumber dealers of this city, took an overdose of morphine last
night and died at 9:40 this morning. A note was found in the handwriting of
the deceased stating that the books of D. Moar and Co. would show the cash
accounts short and that he was the defaulter to the amount of the shortage.
Brown's note also stated he had executed paper at the bank signing the
firm's name and using the proceeds without the firms's knowledge; that he
owed several accounts about town which he hoped D. Moar and Co. would pay as
he was confident his people would repay the money. Brown, who had been known
here about one year, was from Keokuk, Iowa and was companionable and
generally well thought of. The father of Brown, who was dispatched at his
son's death, arrived here by chance this afternoon.
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