| From the Augusta Chronicle |
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| May 27, 1875 |
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| By His Own Hand |
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Suicide of Co. R. W. Sims -- Sad End of a Georgia Journalist and
Merchant |
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| San Francisco, May 26 |
| Col. F. W. Sims committed
suicide here last night by taking morphine. Papers found on his person
indicate that the deceased had been business manager of the Savannah (Ga)
Advertiser, and that he came here from New York
a few weeks ago. |
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| Colonel F. W. Sims, whose sad
ending is recorded in the above dispatch, was well known in Georgia as a
journalist and merchant. He was at one time manager of the Savannah
Republican; a few years ago he did a large fertilizer business; and
about a year ago, we believe, became manager of the Advertiser. A
few weeks since he disappeared from Savannah on account, it was said, of
some financial irregularities, and was supposed to have gone to the
Pacific coast. |
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