Swartz, Charles

a miner, 48, died from poisoning at his home on East Second Street, Picher Oklahoma, at 11:30 o'clock Sunday night. Swartz is said to have taken a drug with suicidal intent while despondent. He leaves a wife, and two children, one of whom, a son, Calvin Swartz, was a telegraph messenger here. He leaves a brother, John Swartz, a business man of Miami; his mother, Mrs. Sophia Crews of Joplin Missouri and a sister, Mrs. Nettle Cathers. The body is at the morgue of the Clark undertaking company awaiting its funeral arrangements. Within three minutes after he had taken poison he was dead. Swartz has been in poor health recently. He seemed restless Sunday. About 11:30 o'clock he drank poison and staggered to the front of the house. He fell dead at the door step on opening the door. Mrs. Swartz was aroused by his cries of pain and followed him to the front of the house. He was dead before medical aid could be summoned. He carried a letter and a picture of his wife, in his pocket. In the letter, he stated that ill health had prompted his act and he asked that the picture of his wife, be buried with him. The funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the home of his mother in Joplin Missouri.