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Meager reports received here Tuesday evening and yesterday morning
announced the sudden death of Dr. D. W. WHITTAKER, a Madison county boy at
Chattanooga, Tenn. The reports were conflicting, and mentioned as a cause of his
death
either suicide or typhoid fever. It is now known that the former report is
true, and that Dr. Whittaker took his life while temporarily insane, and because
of despondency. The Cincinnati papers stated that on Monday evening after he
had retired to his room for the night, Dr. Whittaker took a pistol and shot
himself through the head.
The deceased is a son of Mrs. T. S. MARKELY of this city, by a former
marriage, and was born in Summerford township. He received his medical education
at the O. W. U. at Delaware and after trying different localities in which to
practice, located at Chattanooga. Although a good physician, he did not meet
with the success in business that he had hoped, and to this is attributed his
despondency. Mrs. Markley left for Chattanooga yesterday morning and may
return tomorrow.
Submitted by Sharon Bees
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