Sudden Death of Robert Zimmerman
Robert Zimmerman, who has been employed by Dr. N. W. Stroup, and who was addicted to the use of opium, died very suddenly about 2:30 on Tuesday afternoon at the home of his employer.
The young man called on Druggist C. B. Stroup early in the afternoon begging for the drug which he said he must have, but was refused, and not being able to procure the article in town, he returned to the Doctor’s home.
It is known that Zimmerman had lately resolved to break away from the terrible habit, and was actually taking medicine to assist him in keeping his resolve, but he had been using drugs for so long a period, that on this day, he must have it, or death would follow.
He was thrown into Spasmodic convulsions, and suffered agony until death relieved him. He was a son of Jacob Zimmerman of Small Valley, a single man, aged about twenty-five.
The body was taken to the home of his father the same afternoon.
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From the Elizabethville Echo, 2 March 1905, via Newspapers.com.
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