Arment, Norman

Note: Injury information: Norman Arment, of Carl Junction Missouri, is a patient at the American hospital. He was injured at the Black Cat Mine yesterday.

Norman Arment, recently injured at a mine, left the American hospital yesterday and returned to his home at Carl Junction, Missouri.

Seeing a man drink from a bottle, then fall in the Street in front of her home at 1 o'clock Saturday afternoon, 4 year old Maxine Miller reported the incident to her father, C. S. Miller, who found Norman Arment, a 30 year old miner, lying in a puddle of water dead. Apparently from acid burns. Near him was found a small vial labeled "poison" believed to be the bottle from which the child had seen him drink. His face and mouth were seared as if from burns. Friends of Arment could assign no motive for the suicide except a quarrel which they said he had with a woman he had been keeping company with in Douthat Oklahoma. They said Arment had lived in Baxter Springs Kansas until a week ago, when he moved to the Dew Drop Inn at Douthat where his woman friend lived. He was last employed at the Brewster Mine, where he received a foot injury which had kept him from working for sometime. Grover Todd, Picher undertaker, who took charge of the body, stated last night that he had found bits of paper in Arment's clothes that might have been a note or letter which he had decided to tear up before taking the poison. No note or word of any kind pertaining the case has been found other than the scraps of paper in his pockets. Ed White, deputy sheriff of Douthat, investigated the case yesterday, but announced no significant findings. Arment's parents at Carl Junction Missouri, were notified as well as a sister at Baxter. No funeral arrangements have been made.